Research, Presentations and Publications:

• "Digital Library Development from the Bottom Up, or: Organization, Clarity, and Sanity: Digitization for the Future On a Shoestring," to be presented at the Computers in Libraries 2010 Conference in Arlington, VA, April 14, 2010.
• "From Confusion and Chaos to Clarity and Hope," a chapter in Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned from Small to Medium-Sized Digitization Projects, Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma, ed. To be published by the Metropolitan New York Library Council, 2010.
• "Report on the Coalition for Networked Information Fall Task Force Meeting, held in Washington, DC, 14-15 December 2009.
• "Bringing Order to Chaos: Preparation and Organization for Long-Term Access" (a Powerpoint presentation). Delivered at the Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group 2nd Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, October 13, 2009.
• "Report on the Imaging Science & Technology Archiving 2009 Conference: Preservation Strategies and Imaging Techniques for Cultural Heritage Institutions and Memory Organizations." 2009.
• "Preparing For The Future As We Build Collections,", presented at the Society of Imaging Science & Technology Archiving 2009 Conference in Arlington VA, May 2009. Article by the same name published in the Proceedings.
• Report on iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects "Joined Up And Working: Tools And Methods For Digital Preservation" held in London, 29-30 September 2008.
• "Googlizing a Digital Library" An exploration of effectively and efficiently providing full-text web search capabilities to a dynamically-generated set of digitized materials, in order to leverage the power of web search to enhance access. Code4Lib Journal Issue 2, 2008-03-24. Available from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43
• "Choosing Delivery Software for a Digital Library".Library Hi Tech News, 24:9/10, 2007, pp. 19-21. Related PowerPoint with exercises for students comparing Fedora and DSpace. Presented to University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences Digital Libraries classes in 2007 & 2008.
• "The Immediate Prospects for the Application of Ontologies in Digital Libraries." Knowledge Organization, Vol. 34, No. 4, December 2007 (preprints available), and the PowerPoint presentation, (oriented more toward explaining ontologies), presented to an IS class in 2007.
• A (2007) short report and PowerPoint presentation on Dublin Core metadata terms and uses.
• "Metadata in Digital Libraries", an overview (2006) which won the School of Information Sciences Best Technical Project award in 2007.
• "Choosing Software for an Institutional Repository." Developed for internal use by the University of Tennessee Digital Library Center.
• A PowerPoint presentation for the Metascholar American South meeting (2002), about implementing a digital library repository for the Open Archives Initiative.

For more info about me: my resume.