Joyce Connolly has been a museum specialist with Smithsonian Gardens’ Collections Management and Education branch since 1999. She helps manage the Archives of American Gardens and Smithsonian Gardens’ Garden Furnishings and Horticultural Artifacts Collection by implementing collection management standards and protocols. Her duties include working with collection donors, collections processing, and addressing reference queries. Prior to joining the Smithsonian, she was an archives specialist with the National Park Service for 14 years at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts.