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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Leads the Library’s innovation with digital collections. Oversees a team of digital innovation specialists who experiment with new ways of applying technology to collections and services. Supports the Library’s digital transformation as member of the Digital Strategy Directorate leadership team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Plans, directs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supervises a 10-member team that acquires, preserves, arranges, describes, and makes accessible the world’s largest collection of folklife, ethnomusicology, and documentary media. Leads the ongoing transformation of the archives into the digital age by greatly scaling digitization and online access efforts, expanding one of the Library’s largest.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Led the Digital Research & Publishing department at the University of Iowa Libraries: rapidly grew the digital library, launched successful e-publishing and institutional repository services, and oversaw the creation a crowdsourcing initiative that enabled public transcription of more than 15,000 pages of Civil War letters and diaries in its first year –.

Davenport, Iowa Area

Provided reference services at downtown and branch locations. Selected books in the areas of philosophy, religion, foreign language, languages/grammar, and large print. Coordinated the homebound delivery program. Used research tools to provide information to a broad public. Led and assisted with drop-in software trainings.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Coordinated a National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)-funded project to survey regional ethnographic collections in the Upper Midwest. Inspected records held at regional archives, public agencies, and in private hands, producing an extensive report that guided folklife collection preservation priorities in the region. Implemented a.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Assisted in the development of finding aids for fieldwork projects in the Upper Midwest as a graduate student. Taught myself Encoded Archival Description and identified and installed the appropriate xml editing software to generate finding aids. Created CSUMC’s first online newsletter; redesigned and edited the Max Kade Institute for German-American.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Served as a key newsroom leader in three assistant city editor positions: leader of night breaking news coverage, dayside editor of local beat reporting, and assignment editor directing the local and state news report of the state’s second largest news operation. Responsibilities included: setting coverage priorities, ensuring deadline performance and.

Supervised two reporters, edited stories from all staff reporters for front page and Metro. Helped direct the night operation, including breaking news coverage. From 1994-1996, managed the Olathe Star, a twice-weekly section zoned to Olathe, Kan., supervising reporting staff and edited and designing the section. Wrote a column. From 1993-1994, covered the.

Ma, Library And Information Studies, Certificate In Folklore

Ba, Mass Communication, Minor In English

Activities and Societies: Iowa State Daily, co-editor-in-chief, 1992