Sue Tyson is Head of the California History Section at the California State Library. Previously, she has worked as an archivist at the California State Archives; as a project archivist at the Huntington Library, the Getty Research Institute, UCLA, and the University of Southern California; as a metadata consultant and project cataloger for the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJADP), a multi-California State University campus digital collection initiative; and as a Mellon Postdoctoral Digital Scholarship Fellow at Occidental College. Before beginning her archival career, she was a librarian at USC. She holds Post-MLIS certificates in Archival Studies (UCLA) and Digital Information Management (University of Arizona) and an MLIS degree from San Jose State University. She also earned Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in German Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in English from California State University-Sacramento.