PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | |
University of Pennsylvania Libraries | Philadelphia, PA |
Director for Digital Scholarship | 2016-present |
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Haverford College Library | Haverford, PA |
Coordinator for Digital Scholarship & Services | 2011-2016 |
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Coordinator for Research, Instruction, and Outreach | 2008 - 2011 |
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University of Pennsylvania Van Pelt Library | Philadelphia, PA |
Research & Instructional Services Librarian Social Sciences Data Services Librarian |
2002-2008 |
-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 |
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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 |
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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 |