The Library in Bits and Bytes: A Digital Library Symposium

Biographies of guest speakers, panelists, and workshop facilitators

Benjamin B. Bederson

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, College Park

Benjamin B. Bederson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and director of the Human-ComputerInteraction Lab at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work is on information visualization, interaction strategies, and digital libraries.

He completed his Ph.D. in 1992 and his M.S. in 1989 at New York University in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Computer Science. He graduated with a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. From 1990-1992, he was a research scientist at Vision Applications, Inc. working on miniature robotics and computer vision. Dr. Bederson worked as a research scientist at Bellcore in the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media research group, and as a visitor at the New York University Media Research Laboratory in 1993 and 1994. From 1994-1997, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.

G. Sayeed Choudhury

Associate Director for Library Digital Programs; Hodson Director, Digital Knowledge Center, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University

G. Sayeed Choudhury, is the Associate Director for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Knowledge Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. He serves as principal investigator for projects funded through the National Science Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Mellon Foundation. He has oversight for the digital library activities and services provided by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University.

Paul Conway

Director, Director of Digital Asset Initiatives, Duke University Libraries

Paul Conway has been a senior administrator at Duke University since 2001. In his new role as Director of Digital Asset Initiatives, Paul is developing campus collaborations centered on the identification, assessment, management, and preservation of digital resources for teaching and learning. Paul is also Director of Curriculum Development for the interdisciplinary ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies) Program, where he is developing and teaching courses for undergraduates and graduate students, helping formulate a research program, and initiating public programs for the Duke campus. Prior to coming to Duke, Paul headed the Preservation Department at Yale University Library for nine years. He is an accomplished archivist and preservation manager who has held positions at the National Archives and the Society of American Archivists. He has a Masters Degree in History and a Ph.D. in Information and Library Studies, both from the University of Michigan. Paul is a Fellow of the ARL Research Libraries Leadership program and is a member of the Standards Board of the Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM). He is the 2005 recipient of ALA’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award for his contributions to the preservation field.

Allison Druin

Associate Professor, College of Information Studies, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Dr. Allison Druin is an Associate Professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies and is a member of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). For the past seven years, she has led interdisciplinary teams of researchers and children to develop and evaluate new technologies for children's information access and use. Since 2002, she has been the project leader of the International Children's Digital Library. Most recently she became a part-time Commissioner serving as an advisor to the U.S. Congress and President on "Libraries and Information Science."

Gretchen Gueguen

Librarian, Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries

Gretchen Gueguen is a Librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries in the Digital Collections and Research (DCR) division. Previously, she was a graduate assistant at both DCR and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). She has contributed to the Thomas MacGreevy Archive, working on the upcoming online exhibit "George Yeats and Thomas MacGreevy: A Friendship in Letters," as well as site design and XML encoding. She received her Master's in Library Science from the University of Maryland in May 2005 and was the recipient of the College of Information Studies Dean's Award for student research and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing's (ALLC) 2005 Conference Bursary Award.

Ann Hanlon

Project Archivist, University of Maryland–National Agricultural Library Cooperative Agreement

Ann Hanlon is Project Archivist for the University of Maryland / National Agricultural Library Cooperative Agreement at the University of Maryland Libraries. Currently, Ann is Team Leader for the Special Collections Digital Initiatives Team. As part of that team, she is managing the implementation of an image management system for the Libraries' photograph and image holdings, and investigating ways to coordinate that system with the electronic finding aids now available in ArchivesUM. Previously, Ann was Electronic Resources Librarian for Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.

Nancy Kaplan

Professor and Executive Director, School of Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore

Nancy Kaplan is a Professor in and the Executive Director of the University of Baltimore's newly formed School of Information Arts and Technologies, an interdisciplinary faculty in hypermedia, information studies, and applied information technologies. She has been working in digital literacy studies for 20 years, including development of software supporting composition pedagogy and scholarship on hypertext and e-literacies. Her most recent work examines the social dimensions of reading digital library books.

Anne R. Kenney

Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services (IRIS), Cornell University Library

For over fifteen years, Anne R. Kenney has led research focusing on digital imaging and digital preservation. She is the co-author of three award-winning monographs, including Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Research Libraries Group, 2000) and Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Cornell University Library 1996). She currently directs an intensive workshop series on digital preservation management: Short-term Solutions for Long-term Problems, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Anne is a fellow and past president of the Society of American Archivists and has served on the RLG/OCLC Working Group on the Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository and on the National Science Foundation/European Union Working Group on Digital Preservation. Anne is a member of the Executive Group of the Joint Committee on Cuban Libraries and Archives, sponsored by the Social Sciences Research Council.

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland

Matthew Kirschenbaum is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, specializing in new media and digital studies. He is the local director for the nora Project, a multi-institutional Mellon-funded initiative to bring advanced text mining and visualization to humanities-based digital library collections. His first book, Mechanisms: New Media and the New Textuality, is forthcoming from the MIT Press.

Judith L. Klavans

Area Director for Technology Use at the Center for Advanced Study of Language

Judith L. Klavans is Area Director for Technology Use at the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL), a newly-establish University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) at the University of Maryland. She also is a member of the College of Information Studies (CLIS) as a researcher, and of UMIACS. She joined UMD having spent a decade at Columbia University as Director of the Center for Research on Information Access, an interdisciplinary research center the goal of which was to build research projects in digital libraries and related areas. While at Columbia University, she was involved in the NSF-funded PERSIVAL Medical Digital Library project, she directed the Mellon-funded Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) project, and co-directed the Digital Government Research Center. Her research focuses on natural language analysis for applications such as summarization and multilingual information identification. Prior to Columbia University, she spent ten years at the IBM TJ Watson Research center in the Computer Science Division as a research scientist in computational linguistics and phonetics. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of London.

Jennie A. Levine

Curator for Historical Manuscripts, University of Maryland Libraries

Jennie A. Levine is the Project Manager for ArchivesUM, a system to create and make available a database of finding aids to manuscript and archival collections at the University of Maryland Libraries using Encoded Archival Description (EAD). She is currently the Curator for Historical Manuscripts at the University of Maryland Libraries. Previously, she was the Western Fellow at the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary. She has served as a discussion leader for LBSC 605, Archival Principles, Practices, and Programs in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. In Spring 2004, she curated the exhibit In the Parlor: The Personal Lives of Marylanders, showcasing the Libraries' historical manuscript collections in the Hornbake Maryland Room Gallery. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.

Deanna Marcum

Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress

Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress since August 11, 2003, manages 53 divisions and offices whose 2,400 employees are responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, public service, and preservation activities, services to the blind and physically handicapped, and network and bibliographic standards for America's national library. She is also responsible for integrating the emerging digital resources into the traditional artifactual library — the first step toward building a national digital library for the 21st century. Prior to this, she served as president of the Council on Library and Information Resources, Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress, and Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at the Catholic University of America. Dr. Marcum holds a Ph.D. in American Studies, a master's degree in Library Science, and a bachelor's degree in English.

Jennifer O'Brien Roper

Metadata/Electronic Resources Librarian, University of Maryland Libraries

Jennifer O'Brien Roper is the Metadata/Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries. As part of a collaborative team, she advises library faculty and staff in the application of XML-based metadata for digital projects. Previously, Jennifer held positions cataloging for special collections at North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University. At NCSU she worked with archivists to create a process for automated conversion of data in EAD documents into MARC records for the catalog. At Wake Forest, she was a principal member of the EAD implementation team, and worked to further refine and improve the process for automated conversion of data from EAD to MARC. She is an active member of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Rare Books and Manuscripts Section.

Susan Schreibman

Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections and Research, University of Maryland Libraries

Susan Schreibman is General Editor and Project Manager of the Thomas MacGreevy Archive, published by the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia, and Irish Resources in the Humanities published by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Dr. Schreibman is currently Assistant Dean, and the Head of Digital Collections and Research (DCR). Previously, she has served as Assistant Director of MITH, and was Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Communication at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is currently serving a second term on the TEI council. She is a co-editor (with R.G. Siemens and John Unsworth) of A Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities (2004), and the series co-editor of Topics in the Digital Humanities, published by University of Illinois Press. She has conducted workshops in Canada, Ireland, and the United States.

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