Laurie Allen

Philadelphian. Librarian.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Pennsylvania Libraries	Philadelphia, PA
Director for Digital Scholarship	2016-present
Developed a plan for a new department, hired staff, and created policies and workflows to support successful growth of the Digital Scholarship department, responsible for working with faculty and students to create and share scholarship in new forms. Created systems to support technical infrastructure, project support, sustainable program growth, consultations and course support. Lead a Digital Scholarship department of eight librarians in: Digital Humanities Data Curation & Management Scholarly Communications & Publishing Mapping & Geospatial Data Judaica DH Projects Public & Community Data Curation
Haverford College Library	Haverford, PA
Coordinator for Digital Scholarship & Services	2011-2016
Developed a sustainable, fully staffed and successful program to support digital scholarship, including staffing, planning, workflow and technical aspects. Created and led Digital Scholarship Fellows program (year-long fellowship program for sophomores interested in gaining skills and approaches in Digital Scholarship) Participated in strategic planning for the library as part of the library management team, and contributed to planning for a major renovation of Haverford’s main library, including a new Digital Scholarship Commons Designed and manage student internships for making new and creative uses of materials from the Quaker and Special Collections in the Libraries Participated in a team that established strategic priorities, workflows and practices for digitization across Haverford Libraries Served as first point of contact regarding all data management plans for inclusion in grant applications
Coordinator for Research, Instruction, and Outreach	2008 - 2011
Managed a team of 7 staff who provided all reference, instruction and circulation services across three libraries to support scholarship, teaching and learning Served as liaison to the Sociology, and (briefly) English departments, including collection development, instruction and research assistance Coordinated long and short-term building plans across three library buildings
University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library	Philadelphia, PA
Research & Instructional Services Librarian Social Sciences Data Services Librarian	2002-2008
Provided reference assistance at the reference desk, IM/chat, in one-on-one meetings, and in trainings and tours Served as public services liaison for Urban Studies, Criminology, and Women’s Studies Programs Served as Social Sciences Data Services Librarian (2004-2008) -Assisted patrons in finding, selecting, and using appropriate data sources throughout the research process -Led workshops on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Census data for graduate and undergraduate students across the University
PROJECTS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Monument Lab Working with Paul Farber, Ken Lum, and others, serve as Research Director for Monument Lab, and for the 2015 and 2017 exhibitions, funded by Pew Center for Arts & Culture, William Penn Foundation and others. Developed and implemented public engagement and research system for citywide exhibition. www.monumentlab.com.	2014-present
Data Refuge Together with Professor Bethany Wiggin, Margaret Janz, Patricia Kim and graduate students in the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, I co-founded Data Refuge, an international effort to safeguard federal environmental and climate data.	2016-present
Collections as Data In collaboration with PI Thomas Padilla and other colleagues led two grant funded projects to explore practices of Libraries, Museums and Archives in approaching collections as data. IMLS National Forum Grant entitled “Collections as Data – Always Already Computational.” https://collectionsasdata.github.io 2016 – 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project entitled “Collections as Data: Part to Whole.” https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/ 2018-2021	2015- present
Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence, Association of Research Libraries Advisory board member on National ARL project to provide fellowships for undergraduate students from marginalized communities as they consider careers in librarianship and archives.	2017-present
Chronicling Resistance, PACSCL Thinking partner, advisory team member on Pew-Funded grant to explore ways that Special Collections Libraries can support contemporary resistance movements in the Philadelphia Area.	2018-present
Past Projects Advisory board member, Digits.pub Mellon grant-funded project, 2018 Co-Chair, Planning committee: DLF-Liberal Arts College Pre-conference 2015 Planning Committee: Oberlin 17 Digital Library Conference. 2013, 2014 MISO Team: Served on a team of 5 people who conduct and analyze a survey of Library and Computing Services across higher educational institutions. 2009 - 2010
Additional experience
Formal training or certification in: Project Management, TEI, XSLT, and Digital Preservation Awards: ALA Movers & Shakers, 2018. SPARC Innovators award (with Data Refuge Team) Experience working in: HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML (especially TEI), XSLT, Python, PHP, Unix, Apache, Nginx, goserver, Postgresql, Mysql, Jekyll, Drupal, Wordpress, Omeka

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