About me
Analú María López (Huachichil/Xi'úi) is the Ayer librarian and Assistant Curator of American Indian and Indigenous studies at the Newberry Library. She helps steward the Indigenous studies collection while guiding library users through, connecting them with, and interpreting materials linked to the Indigenous studies collection. She is interested in the preservation, revitalization, and instruction of Indigenous languages, decolonial theory (within libraries), and intentional community collaborations for access to materials within colonial institutions. She has published articles on Indigenous Librarianship, Archival theory, languages, and active learning with primary source materials, and other topics. She has led hundreds of hands-on instructional sessions with rare books and other primary sources and co-curated exhibitions at the Newberry: “What is the Midwest?” in 2018 and “Indigenous Chicago,” in 2024 which she is also the co-Director of the “Indigenous Chicago” project, a multifaceted project exploring these histories, centering Indigenous voices, laying bare stories of settler-colonial harm, and gesturing toward Indigenous futures. She holds a Master of Library and information sciences with a certificate in archives and cultural heritage resources and services from Dominican University and a Bachelor of Arts in photography with a minor in Latin American studies from Columbia College Chicago. She began her career with the Newberry in 2004. After working for other libraries and museums in Chicago for thirteen years, she returned to the library in her current role in September 2017.
