Provides leadership, oversight and strategic vision to shape the future of Special Collections at UTSA. By engaging in outreach to the UTSA and San Antonio communities, promotes the awareness and use of Special Collections’ resources, services, programs and initiatives. Engages in collection development, fundraising, and building partnerships.

Lead, manage, and participate in the Library’s digital access and preservation program in collaboration with stakeholders, establishing policies and best practices for the long-term preservation of and access to born digital and reformatted digital special collections and archives; Manage operations of UT Digital Repository, the digital archive of the scholarly output of the University of Texas; Provide metadata analysis and specifications for digital preservation and access projects, including mapping between metadata standards, application of metadata standards, and creating implementation guidelines; Evaluate, analyze, and assist in the implementation of systems related to born-digital archives and special collections, digitization of special collections, digital preservation, and metadata operations.