In addition, Russell is Head of Cataloging and Archivist at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, one of the largest and oldest ethnographic audiovisual archives in North America. She is an active participant in a variety of campus and professional organizations. Russell was three-time President of the UCLA Library Staff Association, President of the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association and twice Chair of LAUC-LA (Librarians Association, University of California, Los Angeles).