Hi, I’m Adonis Fuentes, a graduate student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information, where I’m pursuing my MLIS with a focus on digital archiving. My interests are grounded in bridging fields like product design and archival science to make collections more accessible and relevant to a wider audience.

Being at Pratt has shifted my perspective in ways I didn’t expect. Early on, I struggled to see how product design and user experience could intersect with archival work or librarianship, but my coursework made it clear: user experience is at the heart of the MLIS field. I’ve come to appreciate both the traditional side of archives, processing collections and crafting finding aids, and the technical side, like building websites from scratch, connecting to databases, and designing interfaces that truly reflect the collections. These skills allow me to create platforms and materials that address accessibility gaps I’ve seen in the field.