About me
Brian Real (he/him) is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky. He holds a PhD in information studies and a master of library science from the University of Maryland. His primary research areas are the historical impact of federal policy on film preservation and the modern social impact of public libraries on their communities. He is an active member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), overseeing its Salary and Demographics Survey of the Field and acting as the reviews editor for The Moving Image. Real has published research articles in The Moving Image, Journal of Archival Organization, Public Library Quarterly, Library Quarterly, Information Technology and Libraries, and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television.
