education

upcoming WORKSHOPS

Stewardship of Digital Assets
A two-day workshop on sustaining digital collections

Workshop Faculty

Liz Bishoff

Liz Bishoff is 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 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, including the Western States Metadata Dublin Core Best Practices.

Liz has been a member of the IMLS/NISO task force for A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. She has been a member of the American Library Association’s Council, the ALA Board, and is a past Treasurer of the American Library Association.

 
Tom Clareson

Thomas F.R. Clareson joined PALINET as Program 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, grant writing, and outreach to the museum and historical society communities. With over 15 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. Currently 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.

Robin Dale

Robin L. Dale has recently become the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Until early June 2007, she was a program officer in RLG Programs, a part of OCLC’s Office of Programs & Research, for a year.  Prior to the combination of RLG and OCLC, she was a program officer and Program Manager for Preservation at RLG, as well as the Associate Editor of RLG DigiNews for nine years.

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 recently released 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. 

 

Katherine Skinner

Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Digital Projects Librarian at the Emory University Libraries and provides leadership for the library's digital projects that are supported through grants or other sponsored funding sources. She is a Co-Principal Investigator on the Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities project to establish a humanities-based portal environment, SouthComb. She also co-directs the MetaArchive Cooperative, which provides an infrastructure and model for distributed digital preservation.

Katherine is a founder and an editorial board member of the peer-reviewed Internet journal Southern Spaces, and is currently co-editing a monograph entitled Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries. Katherine also serves on the Aquifer Services Working Group committee and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program's Sustainability Committee. She received her PhD in American Studies from Emory University in 2005, and has published on music, social movements, scholarly publishing practices, and the emergence of new fields, as well as on digital library topics.