Cristela collaborates across areas of the library, campus, and community on projects to ensure the long-term accessibility, use, and preservation of the University’s unique collections. Content such as photographs from the Melanesian Archive and Baja California collections, experimental recordings from the Department of Music, and all types of objects on Oceanography are available in UC San Diego’s Digital Collections website. For the Tell Us How UC It project, she worked on the submission process, timeline, and technical infrastructure for the physical and digital exhibit.