Professional Positions

• Responsible for two of the three divisions of the University Library. Library Information Technology includes five units that provide critical technological infrastructure to the Library: Core Services (supporting system administration and system integration); Desktop Support Services (providing desktop support for staff and patrons, and support for Library networks); Digital Library Production Service (engaged in building digital library systems and providing digital conversion services); Library Systems (supporting the Library's LMS and associated systems); and Web Services (responsible for the Library's general web presence). In late 2004, added responsibility for Technical and Access Services, including: Acquisitions and Serials Cataloging; Cooperative Access Services (i.e., ILL and document delivery); Monograph Cataloging; and general metadata support. Participate on the Library's four-member Executive Council and, in this capacity, play a key role in all University Library budget, policy, management, and leadership issues.

• Directed (on an interim basis) the Digital Library Services division of the University Library, a division that provided the infrastructure to both digitize and access digital collections such as the Making of America project; provided and sustained a comprehensive computing environment for University Library patrons and staff; provided frameworks and systems to federate distributed information resources; and served as a catalyst for addressing electronic information issues on campus. Reporting units include Digital Library Production Service, Desktop Support Services, and Library Systems.

• Managed the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) from its inception in 1996. DLPS, an organization within the University Library, is responsible for campus- and Internet-wide public information services, focusing primarily on full-text resources, continuous tone images, and bitonal images. In this role, I work actively with Library and campus-wide groups to ensure effective coordination of DLPS systems and services with other organizations.
• Under my direction, DLPS has grown from approximately 5 FTE to approximately 25 FTE, including eight programmers and eight librarians. Responsibilities include budgeting, personnel management and performance review, planning, and policy-setting.
• During its first six years, DLPS mounted more than one terabyte of online library collection material, including PEAK, a successful journal system with more than 1,200 current titles (since retired), current and retrospective monograph and journal access systems, and systems for access to high resolution art and artifact images. DLPS provides online access systems for several commercial and non-profit subscription-based resources, and offers significant digital conversion capabilities.

• Created and coordinated the online initiative sponsored by the University of Michigan Press, the School of Information and Library Studies, and the University Library. Humanities Text Initiative activities included text creation, systems development, education, technical direction of campus SGML initiatives, as well as consultation for scholarly electronic projects involving the humanities, SGML, and compound documents using SGML.

• Library-wide position responsible for services and programs to meet information technology needs of Library patrons. Responsibilities included: operations management (i.e., content, policies, and technical issues) for the University's Internet information servers, coordination of the development of the University Library's electronic centers, including the Electronic Text Center, the Digital Image Center, and the Social Science Data Center, management of UNIX servers for the electronic centers, and management of the Library's Internet information servers.
• Responsible for planning and organization of staff training using new technologies, and implementing other new services and technologies as appropriate (e.g., planning for and implementing Library's NOTIS Z39.50 subsystem). While at the University of Virginia, provided technical guidance in support of SGML encoding for the University's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

• Appointment in Graduate Library Reference and Research Services division, responsible for English and American literature collection development and data services support to social sciences and humanities disciplines. Selection responsibilities included managing collection funds for English language literature, materials selection, research support, instruction, and liaison to departments.
• Responsibilities in support of data services included program development, accounting, and technical support for technology in the social sciences and humanities. In addition to support for online search services and CD-ROM products, this included the implementation of several major full-text and numeric data projects, including an Internet-based SGML text system in 1989, and a publicly accessible host service for Commerce Department data in 1988.

• Appointments in the Documents Center and Map Library, with responsibility for reference, bibliographic instruction, online search services, and library-wide Depository Item Surveys. Other responsibilities included: training and supervision of Map Library interns; managing Economics book and serials funds; development of Documents Center databases; installation and trouble-shooting for CD-ROM products. Residency component of position included special emphasis on government machine-readable data files, exploring potential applications and library issues (e.g., storage and access).

Recent Grants, Awards and Partnerships

• Coordinated all phases of Michigan's large-scale digitization effort with Google, including negotiation of contract terms and Michigan's portion of implementation. The resulting effort is intended to convert the entire 7 million volume collection from the University of Michigan, University Library, and provide both Google and Michigan with a copy of the results of that work.

• Author and Principal Investigator for $150,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for mounting an OAI-enabled discovery service.

• Primary author and co-PI for $315,701 grant from the National Science Foundation for support to the University of Michigan and Cornell University (and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft support to Göttingen State University and Library) for the implementation of an interoperability mechanism for the three disparate digital library systems at the listed institutions.

• Primary author and organizer for $420,000 grant to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for conversion of approximately 7,500 19^th century US imprint monographs.

• Successfully organized application to Sun AEG program for $230,000 of equipment to support publicly available digital collections in the humanities.

• Primary author and principal investigator for successful $325,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to convert the Middle English Dictionary, mount it online, and create a new, supporting reference work (the HyperBibliography of Middle English Prose and Verse, conceived by Prof. Frances McSparran).

• Co-authored Council on Library and Information Resources (Digital Library Federation) grant for $25,000 to develop a prototype distributed access system for EAD-encoded finding aids.

• Primary author on successful University of Michigan Presidential Initiative Fund grant for $250,000 to develop a "Collaboratory for the Humanities," an effort to provide support for editorial scholars working in an electronic environment.

Teaching

• In the 1995-1996 academic year, taught two courses on the application of SGML for information organization and retrieval. In 1996-1997 taught one advanced course in the application of SGML to humanities resources, focusing on special problems of encoding, such as complex editorial projects and lexicography.

• One-week (40 hour) courses at the Rare Book School (University of Virginia) in electronic formats for rare books environment, focusing on creating viable data and networked access.

Education

Recent publications and presentations

• "Collaborative interoperable full-text searching: Inter-institutional approaches to interoperability," presented at the Spring 2002 DLF Forum.
• "Registering digitized monographs and journals," presented at the Spring 2001 DLF Forum.
• "DLXS: An Open Source Production Digital Library Access System," presented at the Spring 2001 CNI Task Force meeting.
• "Leveraging the Digital Library for Publishing the Past and Future" at a conference sponsored by the Clemson Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing (Spring, 2001).
• The Making of America II Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model, co-authored with Bernie Hurley, Howard Besser, and Merrilee Profitt. Washington: The Digital Library Federation, December 1999.
• "Frameworks for Digital Libraries & Collaboration," With Wendy Lougee, Associate Director for Digital Library Initiatives; presented at CIC VEL meeting, December 1999.
• "The Use of TEI in North American Libraries." Presented at the German national Workshop on Digitization, Göttingen, October 1999.
• "Enhancing Access to Digital Image Collections: System Building and Image Processing," in Moving Theory Into Practice, edited by Anne Kenney and Oya Rieger.
• Moving the Digital Library from "Project" to "Production." Presented at DLW99 in Tsukuba, Japan, March 1999.
• Organized and presented at DLF-sponsored meeting on "TEI and XML in Libraries," hosted by the Library of Congress, 1998.
• Moving Digital Libraries from Project to Production. With Wendy P. Lougee, Associate Director for Digital Library Initiatives; presented at the Coalition for Networked Information, April 1998.
• "Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case Collections: Effectively leveraging rich document formats for the WWW," in D-Lib Magazine, May 1997.
• "A Gateway Between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML Through the Web." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 7 (1994): 5-27.
• "Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries," Public-Access Computer Systems Rev. v5, n3 (1994)5-21.
• "The Feasibility of Wide-area Textual Analysis Systems in Libraries: A Practical Analysis," presented at Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services, the 31st Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), April 10-12, 1994. Published in the Proceedings of the Clinic.
• "A Campus-Wide Textual Analysis Server: Projects, Prospects, and Problems," presented at and published in the Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary and Text Research, October 1992.
• "Text Files in Libraries: Present Foundations and Future Directions," Library Hi Tech, Consecutive Issue 35, (1991)7-44.
• "Text Files in RLG Academic Libraries: A Survey of Support and Activities," Journal of Academic Librarianship 171 (March 1991) 19-25.