Education
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
Faculty Biographies
Liz Bishoff is the recently appointed Director of Digital and Preservation Services at BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) in Aurora, Colorado. Up until last month, she was Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries and Head of the Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Previously she was Vice President for Digital Collection Services at OCLC and former Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program. Liz has worked with libraries and museums in several states, including Alabama, Kansas, South and North Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, and Tennessee, on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives. Liz led the development of collaborative best practices in metadata, as seen in the Western States Metadata Dublin Core Best Practices guidelines.
Liz has been a long-time faculty member of NEDCC’s School for Scanning. Liz holds an MLS from Rosary College and has completed post-graduate work in public administration at Roosevelt University.
Tom Blake, Boston Public Library
Tom Blake has been working at the Boston Public Library as their Digital Imaging Production Manager since October of 2005. He is currently responsible for the creation of beautiful, versatile, and sustainable digital images for inclusion in the BPL’s growing digital repository. Tom came to the Library from the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he was involved in several digital projects including the online version of the diaries of John Quincy Adams. Mr. Blake also served as a photographer and imaging specialist for nine years at Boston Photo Imaging and as a processing archivist at the MIT Special Collections and Archives.
Tom holds a BFA in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MS in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons College.
Kristine Brancolini, Loyola Marymount University
Kristine Brancolini is the Dean of University Libraries at Loyola Marymount University(LMU) in Los Angeles. Prior to her arrival at LMU in July 2006, she had been a librarian at Indiana University in Bloomington for more than twenty years, where she held a number of positions. From 1998-2006, she was the Director of the Digital Library Program (www.dlib.indiana.edu); during that time she was principal investigator on numerous digitization projects, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S. Department of Education. Her most recent digitization project was IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana (http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/inharmony/). LMU received its first digitization grant from the California State Library in 2007 to digitize a portion of its 1 million-item historic postcard collection, The Changing Face of Southern California: A History in Postcards.
Sam Brylawski, University of California, Santa Barbara 
Sam Brylawski is editor of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings being compiled by the University of California at Santa Barbara, an authoritative index to over 165,000 recording sessions. He is the immediate past-president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. In 2005, Sam retired from the Library of Congress after working there for more than 30 years. He was head of the Recorded Sound Section in its Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, where he oversaw a collection of over 2,300,000 published and unpublished recordings. As head of the section he had responsibility for the conservation and cataloging of the Library’s audio collections, and supervision of the Recorded Sound Reference Center, including prioritizing recordings for preservation reformatting, coordinating the transition to digital preservation, and planning of the National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, where the section and collections moved in 2007. He is now a consultant to the National Recording Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. His essay, Preservation of Digitally Recorded Sound, written for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress in 2002, is published by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Thomas F.R. Clareson joined PALINET as Director for New Initiatives in October 2005. Leading PALINET's digital collections creation and management services, preservation services, and consulting activities, he is responsible for establishing new services and funding sources, grantwriting, and outreach to the museum and historical society communities. With over 18 years' experience in preservation and digitization services, Tom was previously Global Product Manager at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; he also served in various capacities at Amigos Library Services, Inc. Tom holds an MLS from Kent State University, an MA from Ohio State University, and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. Formerly a representative from the Society of American Archivists to the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries, and Museums, he also serves on the Board of Trustees of Heritage Preservation.
Greg Colati, University of Denver
Greg Colati has been the Digital Initiatives Coordinator for the Penrose Library at the University of Denver since 2005. At DU he directs the development of digital projects and collections that support research, teaching, and learning and oversees the Library’s overall technology systems.
Greg has directed or participated in the development of digital repositories in a number of universities and consortia including the Tufts University Digital Library and the Research Commons of the Washington Research Library Consortium. He is currently a member of the planning committee for the digital repository of the Colorado Alliance of Research libraries, and is working with the DU School of Library and Information Science to develop next-generation access systems for archival materials.
An archivist by training, Greg has an MLS from Simmons College GSLIS and an MA in History from Trinity College. He is an adjunct professor at the DU School of Library and Information Science, and has for many years taught courses for the Society of American Archivists’ continuing education program.
Karen Colbron, WGBH Educational Foundation
Karen Colbron, WGBH Digital Archives manager, has an advanced degree in Library Science and many years of experience in library and archival research. She is currently project manager for development and implementation of the WGBH Digital Asset Management system. She is also project manager for the WGBH Open Vault Web site, whose IMLS-funded project to add materials from Vietnam: A Television History recently started. During this ambitious 2-year project, she will oversee the reconstruction of the original Vietnam archival film elements into digital resources, as well as act as a liaison between UMass Boston and Columbia University to facilitate exchange of archival materials from the Vietnam series.Karen has over 20 years of production and project management experience, both nationally and internationally. She has been twice Emmy award-nominated for her work in archives research and is a member of AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) and FOCAL (Federation of Commercial and Audiovisual Libraries).
Robin Dale, University of California, Santa Cruz 
In June 2007, Robin L. Dale became the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. For more than ten years prior to that, she was a Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, managing collaborative programmatic activities related to the long-term management of digital resources and digitization efforts.
From 2005 to early 2007, Robin was also the Project Director of the Center for Research Libraries Auditing and Certification of Digital Archives project, a Mellon-funded activity to develop processes to audit and certify digital archives and repositories. She co-chaired the RLG-National Archives and Records Administration Digital Repository Certification task force, which produced the 2007 report Trusted Repositories, Audit and Certification: A Checklist (TRAC).
For the last ten years, her work has focused on digital preservation, preservation metadata, data curation, and digitization, in addition to serving as Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews. She continues to be a regular speaker on digital preservation initiatives, is involved in several digital preservation training initiatives, and has been active in digitization and digital preservation standards and best practice building activities, including the development of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) international standard, trusted digital repositories work, and various preservation metadata best practices. She now works with some fabulous people at UC Santa Cruz to put this theory work into practice.
Janet Gertz, Columbia University
Janet Gertz has been Director of the Preservation Division of the Columbia University Libraries since 1989. In 2007 her title changed to Director of the Preservation and Digital Conversion Division. Prior to 1989 she was Head of Reformatting for Columbia, and before that, Special Collections Librarian/Preservation Officer/Humanities Cataloger at Pennsylvania State University, with previous work in manuscripts and archives at several institutions. She has an MLS from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Yale University in Indo-European Linguistics.
Janet spends much of her time managing projects to digitize, reformat, conserve, or otherwise preserve books, archival collections, and audio materials. Over the past twenty years she has written and spoken on many aspects of preservation, including selection for digitization. Janet is the winner of the 2008 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award.
Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
Peter B. Hirtle is the Intellectual Property Officer for the Cornell University Library. Peter also serves as the Technology Strategist for the Library’s Public Services and Assessment Division and is the bibliographer for United States and General History. Previously, Peter served as Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, where he explored the use of emerging technologies to expand access to cultural and scientific sources through the development and management of distinctive digital collections. He also served as the Associate Editor of D-Lib Magazine, www.dlib.org, a monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries.
Prior to his arrival at Cornell, Peter worked at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), first for the Technology Research Staff and then as coordinator of electronic public access for the agency. He has also served as curator of modern manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine. Peter has an MA in History and an MLS with a concentration in archival science. He is a Fellow and Past President of the Society of American Archivists and chairs its Working Group on Intellectual Property. He was also a member of the Commission on Preservation and Access/Research Library Group's Task Force on Digital Archiving and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage's Working Group on Best Practices in Networking Cultural Heritage. He is currently a member of the Copyright Office’s Section 108 Study Group and is a contributing author to the LibraryLaw.com blog.
David Joyall, Northeast Document Conservation Center
David Joyall has been a technical photographer for NEDCC since 1986, coordinating photographic duplication services and, most recently, managing NEDCC’s Imaging Lab. Up until the last few years, the lab used film and photographic paper for all of its duplication and copying work. Today, with multiple digital work stations and a staff of photographers experienced in the handling of rare and fragile materials, NEDCC’s Imaging Lab is able to offer a tailored approach to digital projects, working with institutions to meet their specific needs. David has spoken at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the National Archives, and at digital conferences hosted by NEDCC across the country.
Scott Kehoe, Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System
Scott Kehoe is the Technology Consultant with the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) based in Danvers, Mass. NMRLS, one of the six multi-type library regions in Massachusetts. serves over 320 member libraries in 54 towns. Scott teaches and consults on technology and computing issues including digital imaging. Scott managed a 2-year, $25,000 Federal LSTA grant awarded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Imagining History digitized over 3500 images from eight NMRLS’ member libraries. This collection of photographs, maps, and correspondence is now part of the Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth: http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/. Prior to NMRLS, Scott worked as the Reference Librarian & Head of Public Services at the Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. His library career got its start as a Circulation Supervisor at Davis Library, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
Anne Sauer has served as Director of the Digital Collections and Archives and University Archivist for Tufts University since 2004. In this role she oversees Tufts’ records management program archives and manuscript collections, and co-directs the university-wide digital repository program.
Anne has worked on or managed a number of digital projects since joining the Tufts Archives in 1998, including grants from IMLS and NEH. Advocacy, preservation, and the transformation of single projects to sustainable programs have been particular areas of focus.
Anne has presented on digital project management, electronic records management, and digitization services for a variety of professional organizations including New England Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, and ACRL New England. She is also an adjunct professor in the Archives Management program at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston.
Simon Tanner, King's College London 
Simon Tanner is the Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. He specializes in research and consulting in the information and digital domain for the cultural, heritage, and information sectors. Simon is also co-Director of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project with two South African partner institutions.
Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving subcommittee. He is also a member of the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Digitisation Advisory Group. Simon authored the book Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age with Dr. Marilyn Deegan, and they co-edited the book Digital Preservation. He is also working in collaboration with the Israeli Antiquities Authority to digitize the complete Dead Sea Scrolls.
Roy Tennant, OCLC Programs and Research
Roy Tennant is a Senior Program Officer for OCLC Programs and Research. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996),and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy wrote a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal from 1997 to 2007 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.
Bill Walker, Amigos Library Services, Inc.
Bill Walker has served as the Imaging Field Services Officer since 2000 and previously served Amigos as the Library Liaison Officer responsible for the training for cataloging and metadata. Bill has extensive experience with XML, especially the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Encoded Archival Description (EAD), scanning photographs and documents, and several metadata standards. He has also provided specialized consultation services to Sandia National Laboratories and the Fort Worth Public Library. Bill is active in professional associations including the American Library Association and the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. Prior to joining Amigos, Bill served as a Music Cataloger at Southern Methodist University. Bill received his Master of Music and MSLS degrees from the University of North Texas, Denton.