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Project Director for Johns Hopkins University for the UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive (July 28, 2022 – ). [job description]
- Serve as chief of staff to project executive, providing subject-matter expertise on industry trends in library and archival practice. Remotely lead a team of archivists, a librarian, a postdoc, software developers, and faculty from Johns Hopkins University contributing to a collaborative effort with University of California, San Francisco to publicly disclose millions of documents arising from the opioid industry.
- Supervise core team members (up to 4.5 FTE), plus others with partial effort supported by the project. Encourage integration of IT-based scalable workflows into manual work. Monitor work of and coordinate collaboration with software engineers at partner institution.
- Articulate a vision for supporting data science methods on a digital archive to reach new audiences and serve new user needs. Develop partnerships and recruit staff to build the tools necessary to implement this. Collaborate with software architect to explore use of AI models to increase access to an archive of millions of documents.
- Track budget spending and time of core team members working on a digital archive. Scrutinize budget forecasts.
- Supervise team members engaged in redaction of documents and quality control of third-party redactions on millions of documents to comply with personal privacy legislation.
- Contribute to narratives and budget proposals for seeking funding from agencies, foundations, and prosecutors.
- Seek partnerships with industry and academic experts who can contribute to making the documents more accessible, discoverable, and usable.
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Project Director (July 28, 2022 – ) |
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication (January 1, 2016 – July 27, 2022). [latest job description, previous job description]
- Led UNT Libraries Scholarly Communication Office, whose staff operated the UNT Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services, consulted on copyright, and supported consulting on management of research data.
- Led unit (up to 6 FTE) within Public Services Division whose members served primarily as subject librarians and provide research support for graduate students and faculty (2020 – ).
- Fostered the creation of publications about the unique collections of the UNT Libraries (through 2017).
- Supported members of the UNT community in their publishing endeavors through an Editors' Roundtable (through Fall 2016), through collected online resources, and through individual consultations.
- Provided guidance on creating data-management plans (through September 2016).
- Chaired the UNT Libraries Scholarly Communication Transformation Workgroup (through July 2017).
- Led organization of UNT's annual Open Access Symposium (2016 – ).
- Provided guidance on creating data-management plans (through September 2016).
- Served on the Library Dean's Council.
- Served as subject librarian for the Department of Linguistics, for the Intensive English Language Institute, for ONCAMPUS Texas (December 2017 – May 2019), and for the Toulouse Graduate School's master's programs in interdisciplinary studies and in data analytics (beginning January 2019).
- Provided copyright advisory services to the UNT community in cooperation with the Business Librarian (beginning September 2018).
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Associate Librarian (May 12, 2014 – ) |
University of North Texas Libraries |
Interim Head of Library Research Support Services (April 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019).
- Lead unit within Public Services Division whose staff serve primarily as subject librarians and provide research support for graduate students and faculty.
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Interim Copyright Librarian (July 4, 2018 – August 31, 2018).
- Provided individual consultation (but not legal advice) on copyright law to members of the community.
- Presented to faculty and students on copyright, fair use, and related issues.
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Interim Copyright Librarian (January 28, 2017 – May 31, 2017).
- Provided individual consultation (but not legal advice) on copyright law to members of the community.
- Presented to faculty and students on copyright, fair use, and related issues.
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Director for Academic Publishing Transformation (September 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015).
- Provided guidance on creating data-management plans.
- Chaired the UNT Libraries Scholarly Communication Transformation Workgroup and otherwise led the Libraries’ advocacy on open access.
- Continued performing duties related to library publishing from previous role.
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Director of Library Publishing (May 12, 2014 – August 31, 2015). [job description]
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Director of Publishing Operations (May 1, 2013 – April 3, 2014). Responsible for copyediting, typesetting, graphic design, digital content conversion, and relationships with order fulfillment vendors for Michigan Publishing.
- Oversaw a team (12.375 FTE) who coordinated copyediting, conversion to XML, layout/typesetting, and graphic design for the University of Michigan Press brand, who converted content for various Michigan Publishing imprints into standard formats for ingest into DLXS and HathiTrust, and who managed relationships with fulfillment vendors.
- Took responsibility for Michigan Publishing's relations with order fulfillment vendors.
- Harmonized workflows across Michigan Publishing imprints to improve efficiency.
- Coordinated development of mPach, a software package for publishing journals in HathiTrust.
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Senior Associate Librarian (January 1, 2011 – April 3, 2014) |
University of Michigan Library |
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Head of Publishing Production (September 3, 2012 – April 30, 2013). Responsible for copyediting, typesetting, graphic design, and digital content conversion operations for MPublishing [job description].
- Oversaw a team (15.025 FTE downsized to 10.075 FTE) who performed copyediting, conversion to XML, layout/typesetting, and graphic design for the University of Michigan Press brand and who converted content into standard formats for ingest into DLXS and HathiTrust for various MPublishing imprints.
- Harmonized workflows across MPublishing imprints to improve efficiency.
- Coordinated development of mPach, a software package for publishing journals in HathiTrust.
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Head, Digital Publishing Production (August 1, 2010 – September 2, 2012). Responsible for UM Library-based publishing digitization and document format conversion operations of MPublishing [job description].
- Coordinated development of mPach, a software package for publishing journals in HathiTrust (beginning August 2011).
- Coordinated with Publishing Services, Outreach, & Strategic Development and with Publishing Technology Group to establish sustainable content intake and workflow.
- Coordinated closely with the digital production activities at the University of Michigan Press with the goal of creating the greatest possible efficiency in all MPublishing activities.
- Managed digital content normalization and workflow design.
- Researched and recommended the adoption and use of standards and tools.
- Negotiated and managed relationships with internal and external business services.
- Managed continuing relationships with publishing partners.
- Participated in MPublishing management and planning.
- Supervised a growing staff (up to 4.5 FTE).
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Associate Librarian (January 1, 2008 – December 31, 2010) |
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Electronic Publishing Librarian (February 23, 2004 – July 31, 2010). Responsible for several areas of the work of the Scholarly Publishing Office [job description].
- Maintained the Scholarly Publishing Office's standardized workflow for the conversion of born-digital scholarly literature (and some literature reformatted from print) to standard file formats (XML and TIFF) for long-term preservation and output in various media.
- Managed digital publishing projects.
- Created documentation.
- Trained and supervised student workers (2006–2010) and salaried staff (beginning in 2009).
- Led the development of standard contracts with publishing partners and for use between publishing partners and authors.
- Staffed the Hatcher Graduate Library Information and Reference Center (August 2007–August 2009).
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Visiting Metadata Manager (August 17–28, 2009, December 1, 2009 – May 14, 2010).
- Assisted humanities scholars in establishing metadata schemes and project workflows.
- Developed a common-denominator metadata schema for use as the indexing scheme for a discovery interface for content in a repository of digital humanities content; mapped content to this schema.
- Taught workshops on project management, TEI, and digital publishing.
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Digital Humanities Observatory, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Éire [Ireland]. |
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Assistant Librarian (February 23, 2004 – December 31, 2007) |
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Graduate Assistant (August 2003–February 2004) |
Slavic Digital (Projects) Assistant (May 2003–February 2004)
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Graduate Assistant |
Pre-professional Graduate Assistant |
Publications Office (now Communications Office), Graduate School of Library and Information Science (now School of Information Sciences), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
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Graduate Assistant (August 2002–May 2003)
- Provided technical support to faculty, students, and staff of GSLIS.
- Managed audio feed for webcasts of distance-education courses.
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Graduate Assistant |
Instructional Technology Office (ITO) (now Help Desk), Graduate School of Library and Information Science (now School of Information Sciences), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Program Assistant (February 2001–August 2002)
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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland |