Anneliese Jakle (nee Warhank)

Anneliese Jakle selected to 2025 Archives Leadership Institute at the University of Virginia
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia—In a competitive application process consisting of 80 candidates, Anneliese Jakle has been selected as a participant in the 2025 Archives Leadership Institute (ALI).

Anneliese Jakle, C.A., D.A.S., has served as the Archivist/Oral Historian at the Montana Historical Society Library & Archives in Helena, MT, since 2014. Aside from her role as an archivist, Jakle also leads public presentations and workshops, guiding individuals and groups in developing oral history projects. Since 2022, she has served as the de facto Lead Archivist, offering strategic guidance to the Archives staff to ensure smooth operations and collaboration. Jakle is actively involved in professional organizations, including Northwest Archivists Inc., where she served as Treasurer from 2021 to 2023 and co-chaired the Professional Development & Continuing Education Committee from 2016 to 2021. Additionally, she has participated in the Society of American Archivists Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard led projects. Jakle has successfully managed grants such as the 2017 grant from Humanities Montana for the Montana Brewery Oral History Project, and the 2019 Council on Library and Information Resources funded “Voices of Labor” oral history digitization project. The former resulted in the collaborative curatorial project “Good Beer Here”, a museum exhibit which saw one of the most successful openings in recent Montana Historical Society Museum history.

ALI is a grant program funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, a statutory body affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration, and is being hosted at the University of Virginia for the years 2024-2026. The Archives Leadership Institute at the University of Virginia (ALI@Virginia) will provide advanced training for 25 archivists and memory workers, giving them the knowledge and tools to transform the archival profession in practice, theory, stewardship, and care. In support of the project, the University of Virginia Library was awarded $300,000 by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the granting agency of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Participants were selected for the 2025 ALI@Virginia program based on their exceptional leadership skills and potential, the ability to influence change within the archival field, a strong commitment to the archival profession, demonstrated professional organizational involvement and service, a collaborative and innovative spirit, and representation and/or support of diversity within the profession.

The leadership institute held at the University of Virginia is a weeklong immersion program that embraces a distraction-free, focused opportunity for archival leaders to develop necessary theories, skills and knowledge. Participants will engage in classroom and experiential learning focusing on individual growth and building capacity as a leader; organizational leadership; and responsible stewardship and partnerships. The ALI@Virginia experience will be grounded in context and place, so the cohort will explore leadership through the lens of the unique emotional and historical landscape that the University of Virginia offers.

To learn more about ALI@Virginia see www.archivesleadershipinstitute.org or contact director@archivesleadershipinstitute.org