Education

Past Conferences

Persistence of Memory
Stewardship of Digital Assets
November 1-2, 2005
Boston, MA

Faculty Biographies

Dr. Robert S. Martin, Texas Woman's University
Robert S. Martin is Lillian Bradshaw Distinguished Professor of Library Science in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman’s University. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the Texas State Historical Records Advisory Board. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Previously he was Professor at Texas Woman’s University; Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission; and Associate Dean of Libraries for Special Collections at Louisiana State University. He has authored and edited numerous books and journal articles on library management, the history of libraries and librarianship, and the history of the exploration and mapping of the American West. He has been elected and appointed to numerous positions of leadership in service organizations for library and archives professionals. His work has been recognized with numerous honors and awards, including Distinguished Service Awards from both the Texas Library Association and the Society of Southwest Archivists, and the Justin Winsor Prize from the American Library Association.

Richard Pearce-Moses, Arizona State Library and Archives

Richard Pearce-Moses has worked as an archivist for more than twenty years, and is noted for his work with photographic archives. He authored a state-wide catalog of photographic collections in Texas, and he regularly taught workshops on the administration of photographic archives for the Society of American Archivists.

More recently, he is known for his work A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology, published by the Society of American Archivists in 2005. The glossary includes definitions of some 2,400 terms relating to all aspects of archivy and all formats of records.

Pearce-Moses has worked with local and state government records and with collections of historical and personal papers at the University of Texas, the Texas State Library and Archives, Arizona State University, and the Heard Museum. Currently, he is working at the Arizona State Library and Archives to help establish programs to manage electronic records and digital government information.

Pearce-Moses has a master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He received an NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship in 2002, and he was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists in 2005. He is a Certified Archivist and is currently serving as President of the Society of American Archivists.

Bernard Reilly, Center for Research Libraries
Bernard F. Reilly is the President of the Center for Research Libraries, a consortium of 205 North American universities and research libraries. Based in Chicago, the Center exists to ensure the survival and availability of heritage and other primary-source materials for advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The Center holds collections of over 4 million titles and undertakes cooperative acquisition, preservation, cataloging, and access projects on behalf of its member libraries and universities. Reilly has been the Center’s Chief Executive Officer since September 2001.

From 1997 to 2001, Reilly was Director of Research and Access at the Chicago Historical Society, where he directed acquisitions, public service, cataloging, and electronic dissemination of the Society’s vast research holdings of books, prints and photographs, manuscripts and archives, films and broadcasts, and architectural records.

Prior to 1997, Reilly was Chief Curator in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, where he directed acquisitions, preservation, interpretation and publications, and service to advanced researchers of the Library’s pictorial collections. Reilly was active in the early years of the Library’s development of the National Digital Library and American Memory collections.

Recent publications on the digital environment include “Merging or Diverging? Emerging International Business Models for Museums on the Web” in Museum News, January-February 2001, and “What the Knowledge Sector Can Learn from Enron” in First Monday, January-February 2002.

Reilly has also published and lectured on political art and propaganda and American drawings and graphic art. His most recent publication was an essay on twentieth century American portraiture and publicity strategies, in Wendy Wick Reaves, ed., Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 2002).

Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum

Stephanie Stebich has extensive experience in the museum field, and has held positions with nationally regarded museums such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Guggenheim Museum in New York. Before becoming Director of Tacoma Art Museum in April 2005, Stebich served as Assistant Director at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota for four years. She has also served in various roles for professional arts organizations such as the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), and American Federation of the Arts (AFA), and American Association of Museums (AAM).

 

Liz Bishoff, University of Colorado, Boulder

Liz Bishoff is currently the Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries and Head of the Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado, Boulder. Previously she was Vice-President for Digital Collections and Metadata Services at OCLC. Prior to going to OCLC, Bishoff was Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program. She has worked with libraries and museums in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, and California on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives. She has extensive experience in grant development, development of cross-cultural heritage collaboratives, and development of best practices for use by collaboratives and institutions participating in collaboratives.

Bishoff also has extensive experience in public libraries. She was the principal librarian for Support Services at Pasadena (California) Public Library. Additionally she has been a director at a medium-size public library, school media specialist, and cataloger in her 34-year library career. She has taught in the graduate library programs at Dominican University (formerly Rosary College) and Emporia State University.

She is currently a member of the ALA Council and is a past ALA Treasurer and former member of the ALA Board. She holds an MLS from Rosary College, and has done post-graduate work in public administration at Roosevelt University.

Bishoff is co-author with Nancy Allen of the recently published Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions : A framework and resource guide to assist cultural heritage institutions with business planning for sustainability of digital asset management programs, available through the Council of Library and Information Resources.

Chuck Patch, The Historic New Orleans Collection
Chuck Patch is the Director of Systems at the Historic New Orleans Collection in New Orleans, Louisiana, a post he has held since 1991. He’s responsibilities at that institution include all aspects of electronic information access, digitization, and phone services. Over the past decade, he has served as a board member and President of the Museum Computer Network and has worked with local museums in the New Orleans area on a variety of projects.

Jeanne Drewes, Michigan State University Libraries

Jeanne Drewes is the Assistant Director for Access and Preservation at the Michigan State University Libraries. Previously she was the Head of Preservation at the Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library. She has published in the areas of user education and more recently risk management and insurance. Most recently she was managing editor of the ALA publication “Risk and Insurance Management Manual for Libraries.”

 

 

 

Stephen Abrams, Harvard University
Stephen Abrams is the Digital Library Program Manager at the Harvard University Library, where he provides technical leadership for strategic planning, design, and coordination of the Library's digital systems, projects, and assets. He is currently engaged in research and implementation of effective methods for archival preservation of digital objects. Abrams is the project manager for JHOVE, an extensible Java framework for format-specific object identification, validation, and characterization; the project leader and document editor for ISO/TC171/SC2/WG5, the joint working group developing the PDF/A standard; and is leading efforts to establish a Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR). He is a member of ACM, ALA, ASIS&T, and the IEEE Computer Society.

 

Robin Wendler, Harvard University

Robin Wendler is Metadata Analyst in the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems (OIS). For the past seven years she has worked on the Library Digital Initiative (LDI), a program to develop the infrastructure Harvard libraries need to acquire, manage, deliver, and preserve digital materials as systematically as other formats. She advises on the design of widely diverse kinds of metadata both to the LDI development team and to project managers developing digital content. Recent projects have focused on preservation metadata, developing a registry of digital masters, and Harvard’s digital conversion project with Google. Previously, Ms. Wendler was the Bibliographic Analyst in OIS, providing functional analysis for development of Harvard's local integrated library system, retrospective conversion, automated authority control, import and export of cataloging data, and specification of technical services functions.

She is a founding member of the METS Editorial Board, and also currently sits on the RLG Union Catalog Advisory Group and the Digital Library Federation’s Registry of Digital Masters Working Group. Other professional activities have included PREMIS (2003 - 2005), the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) Project (2004 - 2005), the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata (2000-2001), the CC:DA Task Force on the VRA Core Categories (2000-2001), MARBI (1995 - 1999), co-chairing the ALCTS/LITA institute "Managing Metadata for the Digital Library: Crosswalks or Chaos" (1998), chairing the Digital Library Federation Task Force on Metadata (1997), and consulting on MARC formats for a library systems vendor and on multilingual thesauri for a European library consortium.

Ken Hamma, J. Paul Getty Trust

Kenneth Hamma is Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives at the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles. He oversees the management of the Getty Trust website, www.getty.edu, as well as strategic planning for information management across all Getty programs including the Museum, the Research Institute (and Library), the Conservation Institute, and the Foundation.

He currently serves as a member of the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries and Museums sponsored by SAA, ALA, and AAM; Director of the Museum Domain Management Association, the sponsor of the museum internet TLD; member of the User Advisory Board for Gallery Systems; and as a member of the advisory board of the American Association of Museum’s Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal. He has served until 2003 as a board member for AMICO, the Art Museum Image Consortium, a board member for CIMI, the Consortium for the Interchange of Museum Information, a board member for NINCH, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and as an advisor to Artiste (EU Framework 5 IST-1999-11978) and board member for musEnic (EU Framework 5 IST-2001-33538).

From 1987 until 1996 he was Associate Curator of Antiquities and from 1996 to 2004 Assistant Director for the Getty Museum. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Greek and Roman archaeology at the University of Southern California and Associate Director of the Princeton Archaeological Expedition to Marion, Cyprus. He has published on Greek and Roman art, on classical theater production, and on policy issues and resource discovery for cultural heritage online. He holds advanced degrees from Stanford and Princeton.

Simon Tanner, King's College London

Simon Tanner is the founding Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. KDCS provides research and consulting services specializing in the information and digital domain for the cultural, heritage, and information sectors. He has been a consultant to UNESCO, the National Library of Scotland, Kew Botanical Gardens, the Imperial War Museum, and the UK National Archives, among others. He is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. Tanner has a Library and Information Science background. Before joining King's, he was Senior Consultant at HEDS (the Higher Education Digitisation Service) and had a key role in its successful development as a JISC Service. He has also previously held IT, management, and library roles for Loughborough University (Systems Manager), Rolls-Royce and Associates (Head of Library Services), and IBM (UK) Laboratories (Information Officer). Tanner is co-author of Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age with Dr. Marilyn Deegan.

Barbara Taranto, The New York Public Library
Barbara Taranto is the Director of the Digital Library Program at The New York Public Library, a position she has held since July 2001. Prior to her tenure as Director, she held the post of Digital Library Systems Coordinator, working under the direction of Heike Kordish, then Deputy Director of the Research Libraries, and Michael Alexander, her predecessor.

Taranto is an active member of the Coalition for Networked Information and the Digital Library Federations. She sits on the DLF Developers’ Forum, the DLF IMLS OAI-MHP Initiative, and the Metropolitan Library Association Information Systems Advisory Council. She has served on the strategic planning team for the International Children’s Digital Library, was the author of NYPL’s “Archiving E-Journals” white paper, and was lead Program Officer for the NYPL LOCKSS program at the Library.

A native of Canada, Taranto was trained as a philosopher and completed a graduate curriculum in the Philosophy of Language. After ten years in the analytic traditions of academia she took a hiatus from formal systems and spent four years working in the film industry. Immediately prior to coming to the Library she worked in Medical Informatics at New York University and Mount Sinai Medical Center where she was Technical Program Director for Delivery Systems.

Taranto has most recently led the team that so successfully published two new web services for the library – a 350,000-image publicly-accessible database and the electronic monograph "The African American Migration Experience." She is currently engaged in many digital projects at The New York Public Library, chief among them Program Officer for the National Digital Newspaper Program, http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html, and the expansion of the metadata infrastructure to incorporate new digital formats to support ongoing preservation and access of digital collections.