education
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Digital Directions
Fundamentals of Creating
and Managing Digital Collections
May 27 – 29, 2009
San Diego, California
A conference presented by
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Co-sponsored by
Balboa Art Conservation Center
Faculty Biographies
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. Tom also served as a photographer and imaging specialist for nine years at Boston Photo Imaging and as an archives assistant 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 R. Brancolini, Loyola Marymount University
Kristine R. Brancolini is the Dean ofUniversityLibraries at Loyola MarymountUniversity (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 (IMLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the U.S. Department of Education. She has been a reviewer of digitization grant proposals for IMLS and NEH. LMU completed its first digitization grant from the California State Library in 2008 to digitize a portion of its 1-million-item historic postcard collection, The Changing Face of Southern California: A History in Postcards (http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu).
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.He is currently a member of the oversight 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. Greg has directed or participated in the development of digital repositories at a number of universities and consortia including the Tufts University Digital Library and the Research Commons of the Washington Research Library Consortium. Prior to his current position, Greg was the Head of Special Collections and University Archives at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has also served as the Director of Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. 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.
Jessica Branco Colati, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Jessica Branco Colati currently serves as the Project Director of the Alliance Digital Repository, a Fedora-based consortial digital repository project underway at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries in Denver, Colorado. At the Alliance, she coordinates the administrative, functional, and user interface development of the digital repository service.
Prior to working at the Alliance, Jessica worked as an independent consultant with libraries, collaboratives, and cultural heritage institutions assessing, advising, and facilitating metadata development, finding aid encoding, collections management workflows, digital content creation, digital repository design processes, and digital library services programs. As a trained archivist, she has also worked with digital collections and repositories at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; Tufts Digital Collections and Archives; and the Washington Research Library Consortium.
In addition to her work at the Colorado Alliance, Jessica currently teaches Metadata Architectures in the Library and Information Science program at the University of Denver and has written and delivered several articles and presentations on metadata and digital repositories. Jessica holds an MLS from Simmons College.
Robin L. Dale, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robin L. Dale is the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In this position, she oversees UCSC’s participation in mass digitization projects, as well as works with her staff to formulate the digitization and digital collection development of local, unique collections like the Grateful Dead Archive. Prior to UCSC, she was a long-time program manager at RLG, managing collaborative programmatic activities related to digital preservation and digitization and served as the Project Director of the CRL Auditing and Certification of Digital Archives project.
Since 1997, her work has focused on standards and best practice–building activities related to digital preservation, digitization, preservation metadata, and data curation, in addition to serving as Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews. She co-chaired the RLG-NARA task force that produced the 2007 report Trusted Repositories, Audit and Certification: Criteria & Checklist (TRAC).
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. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/
preservation/ 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 AMLS from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Yale University.
She has served as Chair of the Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association and Chair of the New York State Conservation/Preservation of Library Materials Program Executive Committee. She has worked on many committees and task forces, including the National Information Standards Organization’s Standards Development Committee and the American Society for Testing and Materials Research’s Program on Paper Aging. She has written and spoken on many aspects of preservation, including selection for digitization, and has managed projects to digitize, reformat, conserve, or otherwise preserve books, archival collections, and audio materials. Janet is the 2008 recipient of the American Library Association’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award.
Judy Gibson, San Diego Natural History Museum
Judy Gibson is the Collection Manager in the SD Herbarium of the San Diego Natural History Museum. Her duties include care of the collection of 200,000 specimens of plants from southwestern United States and northern Mexico, as well as management of the herbarium database. She supervises some 25 volunteers working on specimen preparation and database entry, manages incoming and outgoing shipments of specimens for loan and exchange with other institutions, and deals with day-to-day visits and inquiries from botanists and the general public.
Emily Gore, Clemson University
Emily Gore is Head of Digital Initiatives and IT at the Clemson University Libraries. During the past year, Emily has outfitted a regional scan center and hired staff to run the center in order to digitize materials held in Upstate South Carolina cultural heritage institutions. Emily is also beginning an Institutional Repository at Clemson, working with the Cyberinfrastructure group on campus to create the Open Parks Grid for the National Park Service and conducting a data audit in order to preserve datasets being produced campus-wide.
Prior to joining the faculty at Clemson, Emily managed the statewide digitization program in North Carolina, NC ECHO http://www.ncecho.org. During the course of her career, Emily has received over $1 million in grant funding, including over $400,000 for the Eastern North Carolina Digital Library http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/, a project she managed while serving as the Head of the Center for Digital Projects at East Carolina University. Emily currently serves as a sustaining member of the MetaArchive Cooperative, co-chair of the ALA Digital Preservation Interest Group, and as immediate past chair of the ALA Collaborative Digitization Interest Group. She holds an MLIS from the University of Alabama and a BA from Clemson University and was recently recognized by Lyrasis as the 2009 NextGen Librarian for Technology.
Dr. Martin Halbert, MetaArchive Cooperative 
Dr. Martin Halbert is a nationally recognized leader in digital libraries. He currently serves as President of the MetaArchive Cooperative, a growing international digital preservation alliance of cultural memory organizations that was one of the founding partners of the U.S. National Digital Preservation Program. He has served as principal investigator for grants and contracts totaling more than $5.5 million during the past six years, funding more than a dozen large-scale collaborative projects among many educational institutions. In his role as Director of Digital Innovations at Emory University, he is responsible for researching and leading a wide range of library information technology initiatives. His doctoral research and subsequent projects have focused on exploring the future of research library services. He has previously worked for Rice University, UT Austin, and the IBM Corporation.
Peter Hirtle, Cornell University
Peter Hirtle is a senior policy advisor in the Cornell University Library with a special mandate to address intellectual property issues. He also serves as the selector for US and general history, genealogy, and information science. Previously at Cornell, Hirtle served as Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections and as the Associate Editor of D-Lib Magazine. He is an archivist by training with an MA in History from Johns Hopkins and an MLS with a concentration in archival science from the University of Maryland. Hirtle is a Fellow and Past President of the Society of American Archivists and is a member of its Working Group on Intellectual Property. He was a member of the Commission on Preservation and Access/Research Library Group's Task Force on Digital Archiving and the Copyright Office’s Section 108 Study Group, and is a contributing author to the LibraryLaw.com blog.
R. Mac Holbert is the co-founder of Nash Editions. Widely regarded as the world’s first digital printmaking studio focusing solely on photography, Nash Editions has established an international reputation for fine art photographic digital output. Conceived in 1989 and opening its doors in 1991, Nash Editions celebrates its 17th anniversary this year.
Prior to Nash Editions, Mac was the Tour Manager for such music groups as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Carole King. He has long been active in the environmental movement helping produce benefit concerts for the Cousteau Society, Greenpeace, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, and others.
Mac has lectured extensively and conducted workshops on digital output, digital imaging/scanning, and fine art printing on the IRIS and Epson large-format printers. He is a Beta tester for Epson America, X-rite, NEC, Adobe, and other software and hardware manufacturers.
Mac has printed several seminal digital fine art exhibits that have been widely exhibited including: Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age for the Aperture Foundation (1994); Nash Editions at the Butler Museum of American Art (1996); Digital Frontiers, Photography’s Future at Nash Editions for the George Eastman House (1998); and Telling a Crow Story: The Photographs of Richard Throssel for the National Museum of the American Indian, New York City (2002).
In December 2006 Peachpit Press (New Riders) released the book Nash Editions: Photography and the Art of Digital Printing. Among Mac’s many awards are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Digital Imaging Marketing Association (2007), the Visionary Award from the PhotoImaging Manufacturers & Distributors Association (2006), and the Smithsonian Laureate for his pioneering work in digital printmaking (2000).
Therese M. James, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 
Therese M. James has been the Assistant Registrar at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego since 2005. She oversees photography of the collection and exhibitions, manages outgoing loans, processes gifts to the collection, and assists with loans, shipping, packing, and installation for exhibitions. She creates and updates records in TMS, the Museum’s collection management system, writes system reports, and trains staff on use of the system. Therese previously worked at the San Diego Historical Society as Registrar and Director of Cataloging. She received her MA in Museum Studies/Collections Management from John F. Kennedy University.
Paula Knop,
South Pasadena Public Library
Paula Knop is the Senior Librarian for Adult Services at the South Pasadena Public Library. The South Pasadena Public Library, near downtown Los Angeles, currently serves a city population of 25,000 residents. Founded in 1895, it has one of the oldest public library local history collections in Los Angeles County. Paula oversees the local history collection, collection development, reference service, and book programs for the Library. Paula has worked in libraries for the last five years. Prior to the library environment, she worked in the corporate business arena for almost 20 years. Paula has an MLIS from San Jose State University, an MBA from USC, and a BA from UCLA.
Elizabeth Maland, City of San Diego
Liz Maland is the City Clerk for the City of San Diego. She oversees a department of over 45 employees that provides core services to the City of San Diego. These services include all of the docketing, noticing and minutes preparation for the City Council Meetings, citywide records management, and city election coordination and support. A Brown University graduate, Liz has worked for the City of San Diego for almost eighteen years in a variety of departments, including Police, Purchasing, Library, and Streets.
David Mathews, Northeast Document Conservation CenterDavid Mathews, an imaging expert and photographer, joined NEDCC in 2008 from the Digital Imaging Resources department of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he managed multiple large-scale projects for publication, database development, and art history scholarship. During his tenure as photographer at the Harvard University Art Museums in the late 1990s, he helped pioneer their transition from traditional film photography to electronic media.
David Minor, San Diego Supercomputer Center
David Minor is Head of Curation Services at UC San Diego, a collaborative role with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the UC San Diego Libraries. In this position he oversees coordination of several national initiatives, including the Chronopolis Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. He is also lead on several UC system-wide projects, including work with the California Digital Library, UCTV, and UC San Diego researchers.
David’s primary area of focus is making practical use of emerging computer technologies in the world of digital preservation. Specifically, his work examines how the collection of tools and processes known as cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear in the rapidly growing field of digital data curation and preservation. This includes such things as grid-based computing, high-speed networks, and large-scale data replication.
David received his BA in philosophy from Carleton College and his MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked previously for libraries and information centers at the University of New Mexico, the University of Wisconsin, and Penn State University. He has also held systems administration positions in the commercial sector.
Stanley R. Smith, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Prior to his position at the Getty, Stanley was the founder and president of Seattle-based custom photo lab Argentum, named “The Lab of the Future” in 1994 by Kodak for its leadership in digital imaging. Mr. Smith also designed, implemented, and managed the digital photo studio for Seattle’s renowned Experience Music Project (EMP). During his over eight-year tenure with EMP, he developed workflow strategies and collaborated with software developers to implement a custom digital asset management system that integrated over 75,000 images into a large SQL database. In 2005 he accepted an opportunity to lead the J. Paul Getty Trust’s efforts to move its digital imaging initiatives into the forefront of the cultural heritage world.
Most recently, Stanley oversaw the merger of the Getty Museum’s traditional photographic studios and digital labs, and is currently establishing state-of-the-art direct capture digital workflows while implementing a Trust-wide asset management software solution to manage a large and diverse collection of digital files with stringent metadata requirements.
Stanley is a founding member of ImageMuse, a group of over 25 museums from around the world that collaborates on imaging issues specific to the cultural heritage world. He is the head of the Digital Media Special Interest Group for the Museum Computer Network and is also a fine art photographer with a long history of exhibitions and publications.
Sharon Spivak, Office of the San Diego City Attorney
Sharon Spivak is a deputy city attorney with the Office of the San Diego City Attorney in its Government Affairs & Finance Section. In that role, she serves as advisory counsel to the San Diego City Council, San Diego Mayor’s Office, City Clerk, and other City departments. Her practice includes counseling clients on compliance with the California Public Records Act.
Previously, she was a litigation attorney for eight years with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper), specializing in unfair competition, product liability, First Amendment and media cases.
Before becoming an attorney, Sharon worked for 13 years in the media. Her media experience includes nine years as a newspaper reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune covering government and politics at the local, state, and national levels. She has also served as a political and legal commentator for a local television station. Sharon received her BS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a JD from the University of San Diego School of Law.
Ginny Steel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ginny Steel has been University Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 2005. Prior to that she served as Director of Libraries at Washington State University in Pullman from 2001 to 2005. In that capacity, she oversaw the activities of six libraries on the Pullman campus and coordinated library services across all four WSU campuses. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2001, Ginny served as Associate Director for Public Services, overseeing the operations and facilities of 14 branch libraries and departments. From 1988 to 1997, she held several positions at the University of California, San Diego, including serving as head of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, UCSD's largest branch. During her years at UCSD, Ginny also served as head of the Access Services Department and as Acting Assistant University Librarian for Public Services. Ginny also worked at Arizona State University and Brown University earlier in her career.
Ginny has a BA in foreign literature from the University of Rochester and an AM from the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. She has been active in the American Library Association and served as the President of the Library Administration and Management Association (LAMA) in 2004–05. Other professional activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the Greater Western Library Alliance, the Orbis Cascade Alliance Members’ Council, and the Scholarly Communications Committee of the Association of Research Libraries.
Chris Travers, Museum of San Diego History
Chris Travers brought her strong background in commercial photography—and extensive darkroom and digital imaging experience—to the Museum of San Diego History (operated by the San Diego Historical Society) in 1999. She has been the Director of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives, a collection of over 2.5 million images of San Diego and nearby regions, since 2003. In this position, her main tasks are to care for the collection, make it accessible to the public, set scanning policies, and negotiate rights and reproduction issues. She and her staff work to identify, catalog, re-house, and properly store these negatives and prints, as well as to continually add new images to the collection.
The San Diego Historical Society has completed two large digitization projects in the recent past: California Explores the Ocean and the California Border Region Digitization Project, as well cataloging the early San Diego Union-Tribune Collection.
Chris was the curator and photographer of the exhibition Developing San Diego: Making History Every Day (2005), which illustrated the changing face of San Diego from 1869 through 2001. The contemporary images in this exhibition were the result of a photography project funded by the County of San Diego in which over 400 large-format black-and-white images were shot and ultimately added to the collection. Chris is a graduate of the University of Sydney, Australia.
Adrian Turner, California Digital Library
Adrian Turner (MA, MLIS) currently serves as Data Consultant at the California Digital Library (CDL), a member and system-wide component of the University of California (UC) Libraries. Since 2002, he has served as CDL project manager for the "Local History Digital Resources Program," a statewide digitization program supported by the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the California State Library. He has also been involved in developing tools, services, and technical specifications to support institutions contributing to three core CDL program areas: the Online Archive of California (OAC), Calisphere, and UC Image Service. Prior to joining the CDL, he worked as an archivist and manuscripts processor at UC Irvine Special Collections and Archives and the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center, and as an antiquarian book cataloger in Southern California.