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Genevieve Podleski

Senior Digital History Librarian, Research Information Services

Genevieve Podleski is a digital history specialist who supports the St. Louis Fed's FRASER and Federal Reserve History sites. She collaborates with staff across the Research Division to improve the visibility, usability, and educational value of our websites. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Genevieve worked in higher education public affairs.

Selected Presentations and Publications

"Understanding the Fed: Public Documents and the Federal Reserve System" (with Pamela Campbell). Beyond the Numbers 2023, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, November 8, 2023.

"Teaching Economics Using Primary Sources," (with Stephen Day, Diego Mendez-Carbajo, and Scott Wolla) in The Educator's Handbook for Teaching With Primary Sources, Teachers College Press, 2023.

"Understanding the Fed: Public Documents and the Federal Reserve System" (with Pamela Campbell). Federal Depository Libraries Program webinar, May 24, 2023.

"Federal Reserve Economic Data: A History," (with Diego Mendez-Carbajo). The American Economist, 66:1, March 2021, 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1177/0569434520973989

"Attacking Financial Panics: Panic of 1893 Activity" (with Eva Johnston and Mike Kaiman). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2021

"Chosen Places Activity" (with Eva Johnston). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2021.

"Chosen Places" with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, April 8, 2021.

"Freight Car Loadings and Mail Order Sales: Measuring the Economy During the Great Depression," with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, March 21, 2020.

"Measuring the Great Depression with Primary Sources" (with Eva Johnston). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2020.

"Family Budgets and the Great Depression" (with Eva Johnston and Mary Suiter) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2020.

"Independent Institutions: Understanding Institutional History with Primary Sources" with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019.

"Credit History and Equal Opportunity" classroom lesson (with Eva Johnston). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2018.

"The Librarian-Educator Partnership at the St. Louis Fed: OER for the Public Interest" with Kris Bertelsen, Open Education Southern Symposium, Fayetteville, AR, October 1, 2018.

"Financial Falsehoods: Myths and Legends of the Central Banks of the United States" with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, San Antonio, TX, April 21, 2018.

"Building Metadata for Economic Data Description and Access," IASSIST 2017, Lawrence, KS, May 25, 2017.

"Using Education to Promote Cross-Discipline and Layperson Data Use," Research Data Access and Preservation Summit, Seattle, WA, April 19, 2017.

"Hidden History: A Toolkit for Discovering the Stories in Statistics (Without Math)," with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, Atlanta, GA, March 31, 2017.

"FRED Schema: Metadata for Aggregate Economic Time Series," Beyond the Numbers Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, October 8, 2016.

"The Cycle of User-Responsive Collection Development in Digital Libraries," with Jane Davis, University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium, San Diego, CA, April 28, 2016.

"The Great Migration Crossing State Borders: Why Go?" with Eva Johnston, National Council for History Education, Niagara Falls, NY, April 22, 2016.

"FRASER—Digital Library for Economic History," part of "Digitization Showcase," 58th Annual Missouri Conference on History, Columbia, MO, March 11, 2016.

"So Who's Managing All That Organizational Information Anyway?" panel, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 6, 2015.

"Streamlining Metadata for Economic Time Series Data: A Project Report," poster presentation, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 6, 2015.

"Shades of Grey: Integrating Metadata for Discovery in a Mixed-Content Single-Subject Library," Sixteenth International Conference on Grey Literature, Washington, DC, December 9, 2014.

"Choosing Metadata for Discovery and Description in a Mixed-Content Single-Subject Library: A Case Study," poster presentation, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 3, 2014.

Professional Memberships, Awards, Service

National Association of Economic Educators Gold Curriculum Award, 2020, for Credit History and Equal Opportunity.

American Historical Association, 2019-present

International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology, 2017-present