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University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Suzie Allard is Associate Dean for Research, Director of Center for Information & Communication Studies, and Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her research interests focus how scientists and engineers use and communicate information...
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Graduate Fellow - Digital Curation, University of Maryland College Park
Erin Antognoli is pursuing her Masters in Library Science at University of Maryland's College of Information Studies with a specialization in Curation and Management of Digital Assets. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Photojournalism from Kent State University in Ohio, and her...
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Research Officer, University of Bath
Alex Ball works for the UK Digital Curation Centre, providing support and guidance to the higher education community in the area of research data management. His areas of interest include metadata for research data. the curation of engineering-related data, and data discovery, citation...
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Coordinator for Research Services and Digital Strategies, University of Manitoba Libraries
Jordan Bass is the Coordinator for Research Services and Digital Strategies at the University of Manitoba Libraries. His research to date has focused on personal digital archives, digital curation workflows as well as research data management.
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Archivist, Western University
Tom Belton is an archivist in Western Libraries. Since 2005, Tom has worked at Western’s Archives and Research Collections Centre, where he currently coordinates archival instruction sessions. Tom is interested in the standards and practices relating to the use of primary resources...
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Modern Political Archivist and Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
I am interested in archives, hidden collections, humanities, media, language, history, who tells the stories, how they do it, and what fer.
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Supervisory Archivist, FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Kirsten Strigel Carter is Supervisory Archivist at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, NY. She joined the National Archives in 2008 as the Library's Digital Archivist, and her professional interests include digitization, interface design, and inclusive access init...
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alex Chassanoff is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include the information behavior of digital archive users, digital materiality, and curation and preservation environments...
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Indiana University Bloomington
Dean, Pratt Institute School of Information
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Simmons College
Patricia Condon is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Patti holds an MLIS and MA in Anthropology from The University of Southern Mississippi, and a BA in Anthropology/International Affairs from...
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CUNY Queens College
Jeff Cowick graduated in May of 2014 with a Master in Library Science from CUNY Queens College. He is currently curating and managing the Secret Supper Club Digital Archive, a digital archive documenting the social phenomenon of secret dinner parties in New York City.
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Supervisor of Reference Services and Department Chair, Brigham Young University
J. Gordon Daines III is the Supervisor of Reference Services and Department Chair in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. He holds degrees in history from Brigham Young University (BA) and the University of Chicago (MA) and a certificate in archives and...
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Kent State University
Sammy Davidson has his B.A. in Sociology from Baldwin-Wallace College. He graduated with his MLIS in August of 2013 and also expecting to graduate with his MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management from Kent State University at the end of this summer.
Graduate Student and Institutional Archivist, CUNY Queens College
Alexandra Dolan-Mescal serves as the Special Collections Librarian at Queens College, where she received her MLS in 2013. Previously, she was the Digital Archivist for Civil Rights Collections at the school. She is also the Lab Manager for the independent Experiential Learning Lab...
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Head of Manuscript Unit, Yale University
Ellen Doon is Head of the Manuscript Unit in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where she has worked since 1999. She received her MLIS from Simmons College in 1997. She is active in the Manuscript Repositories Section of SAA and in New England Archi...
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University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Christine Anne George is the Archivist & Faculty Services Librarian at the Charles B. Sears Law Library at SUNY Buffalo. She received her B.A. from Bard College, her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, and her M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin School of...
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Columbia University
Jane Gorjevsky holds a newly created position of a Digital Assets Archivist at Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library since January 2012. Her duties include working with record creators, the Columbia Libraries staff and other stakeholders to plan and manage new electronic...
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Associate Professor, Kent State University
Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., is an associate professor with tenure at the School of Library and Information Science of Kent State University. She possesses an MLIS and PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MA in critical studies of...
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University of Texas Austin
Ayse Gursoy is a current doctoral student in the School of Information at UT Austin. Her current research interests cover the preservation of video games as cultural artifacts. Prior to her doctoral study, she earned a Master of Science degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT...
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Electronic/Digital Records Specialist, Indiana Commission on Public Records (ICPR)
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University of Maryland College Park
Christian James is a M.L.S. Candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he specializes in the Curation and Management of Digital Assets. He holds a B.A. in both History and American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park and a M.A. in History from George...
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FHI 360
Ann Jimerson is a senior specialist in health communication and behavior change. She currently works for FHI 360 on Alive & Thrive, a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote improved feeding practices for children under 2 years old in Bangladesh, Ethiopia...
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University of Manitoba
Curator, 19th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts, Brigham Young University
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
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University of Manitoba
Learning & Organizational Development Librarian, Elizabeth Dafoe Library | University of Manitoba
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Coordinator for the AV Artifact Atlas, Bay Area Video Coalition
Kristin MacDonough is the Coordinator for the AV Artifact Atlas, a community-based online resource for the audiovisual archiving field used to identify and describe visual anomalies found in audio and video signals. The AVAA is hosted by the Bay Area Video Coalition. She serves as...
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Archivist, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Sarah Malcolm is an Archivist at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. Sarah has worked at the Roosevelt Library since 2007, beginning as a student intern, then serving in the progressively responsible roles of Archives Technician, Archives Specialist, and Archivist...
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Seven Oaks General Hospital
Audiovisual Archivist, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Megan McShea is the Audiovisual Archivist at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she has been developing and implementing a sustainable program for managing, preserving, and making available films, videos, and sound recordings from the Archives’ mixed-media...
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Digital Archivist, University of Montana
Sam Meister is a Digital Archivist and Assistant Professor in the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library at The University of Montana-Missoula. He is also currently an instructor in the Society of American Archivist’s Digital Archives Specialist Certificate Program. He holds a Master...
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University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, Illinois Wesleyan University
Meg Miner is the University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She helps cultivate interest in IWU's history among alumni, students, faculty and administrators by arranging and providing access to university records in physical and digital formats...
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Archivematica and AtoM Community Development Consultant, Artefactual Systems, Inc.
Courtney works with US and international clients and community members, development partners and open-source project groups to promote the use and ongoing development of Artefactual Systems' products, Archivematica and AtoM. She is an active conference presenter and liaison with the...
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University Archivist, Brigham Young University
Cory Nimer is the University Archivist at the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University. He received a Masters of Arts degree in History from Sonoma State University and a Masters of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University, and he is...
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University of Tsukuba, Japan
Ayako Ohkura (大蔵 綾子) is a Doctoral Program student at the Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan. In addition she is the Unit Chief at the Archives Section of the General Affairs Division of the Secretariat of National Personnel...
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Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland
Porter Olsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland studying born-digital and hybrid literary collections under the direction of Matthew Kirschenbaum. Porter was a member of the original BitCurator team serving first as a graduate assistant and then as the BitCurator community...
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Associate Librarian of Houghton Library for Technical Services, Harvard University
Susan Pyzynski is the Associate Librarian of Houghton Library for Technical Services, Harvard University. Previously, she was the Librarian for Special Collections and Digital Initiatives at Brandeis University. She is leading a project to replace Harvard's archival discovery sys...
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Senior Consultant, AVPS
Joshua (M.) Ranger is a Senior Consultant with AVPreserve where he leads Collection Assessment and Inventory projects, specializing in data analysis and communication in support of planning, advocacy, collection management, and resource development. Recent projects have focused on...
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Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics
Doctoral Candidate, Simmons College, United States of America
Vanessa Reyes is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She holds an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a B.A. in English from Florida International University. Having worked in legislative...
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Ph.D. Candidate, Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jameatris Rimkus is the Archivist for Reference and User Engagement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2012. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists. Her research interests include the arrangement and description of culturally sensitive materials...
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Gakushuin University
Ryuko Saito is a third-year doctoral course student of Archival Science at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. She has also been a records management consultant for a company and local government for about 30 years. Ryuko is a research assistant of The Ohara Institute for Social Research...
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Application Developer, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Seth Shaw is an Application Developer in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries supporting Special Collections & Archives. Previously, he was the Electronic Records Archivist for Duke University Archives and an Assistant Professor of Archival Studies for Clayton State Univ...
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Columbia University
Dina Sokolova has been a Digital Preservation Librarian at Columbia University Libraries Digital Program Division since March 2012. Her role incorporates acquisition, assessment, and long-term management of born-digital and digitized materials from library's special and general collections...
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Assistant Professor, Kent State University
Heather Soyka is an assistant professor and teaches in the area of archives and special collections in the iSchool at Kent State University. Her research includes: data reuse, knowledge transfer, continuum informatics, and sustainable practices for data-intensive communities.
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jenny Stevenson recently finished her second year of doctoral work at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Jenny graduated with a MLIS and concentration in Archival Studies in December 2010. She then went on to receive her Certificate of Advanced Study in Digital Libraries. Her research...
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part-time Lecturer, Hitotsubashi University
Yayoi Tsutsui is a certified archivist by Academy of Certified Archivists and a registered archivist of the Japan Society for Archival Science. She is a part-time lecturer of Hitotsubashi University and a part time staff of National Institute of Japanese Literature. She is also a...
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Tufts University
Eliot Wilczek is the University Records Manager at Tufts University. He is also a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. He has an MS in Library and Information Science and a MA in History, both from Simmons College.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sonia Yaco is an assistant professor at University Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the head of Special Collections and University Archives. She has a courtesy appointment in the Department of History. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Special Collections librarian...
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Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America
Jane Zhang is an assistant professor at the Department of Library and Information Science, the Catholic University of America. She holds a PhD in Library and Information Studies with archival concentration from Simmons College, Boston, and a joint Master of Archival Studies and Library...
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