Assessing Options for Large Collections
Speaker Biographies
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
University of Delaware
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Conservation Department at the University of Delaware. She served as the founding director of the William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at the University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, from 2005 to 2009, during which period she was also the President of the Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation. Ellen has taught courses in digitization and preservation management and has managed federal, state, and private grants and contracts for collections preservation and digitization, faculty and student support, and educational symposia and projects. Ellen was the first Digital Programs Librarian for the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and also served as project archivist at The Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute. She received a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin and holds an Endorsement of Specialization in Administration of Preservation Programs for Libraries and Archives from the Columbia University School of Library Service. Ellen is currently studying for a PhD in American Studies and was recently awarded a Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant to undertake research on Paul N. Banks, founder of graduate education in library and archives preservation and conservation in the United States.
Lee Dirks is the Director of Education & Scholarly Communication on the Microsoft Research "Connections" team in Redmond, Washington. Lee manages research programs related to open access to research data, interoperability of archives and repositories, preservation of digital information, and the application of new technologies to facilitate teaching and learning in higher education. He has received a "Center of Excellence Award for Technology" by the Special Library Association's (SLA) Business & Finance Division and a Microsoft Marketing Excellence Award, and he has participated on several (U.S.) National Science Foundation task forces, most recently as a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. Lee is an adjunct faculty member at the iSchool of the University of Washington (UW) and serves on the advisory boards for the UW Libraries, the UW iSchool's Master of Science in Information Science (MSIM) program, and for the Metadata Research Center (MRC) of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Lee holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a post-masters degree in Preservation Administration from Columbia University.
Jeanne Drewes
Library of Congress
Jeanne Drewes is the Chief of Binding & Collections Care Division and program manager for mass deacidification at the Library of Congress. As Chief of Binding & Collections Care, Jeanne oversees all operations for library binding and for the care and conservation of and emergency planning for the Library’s general collections, which encompasses more than 50 million items and moves more than 10,000 items weekly. With the retirement of her colleague Ken Harris, Jeanne also serves as the program manager responsible for the Library's Mass Deacidification Program, which treats a quarter of a million books and a million manuscript sheets annually. From 1999 to 2006, Jeanne was Assistant Director for Access and Preservation at Michigan State University, where she oversaw binding preparation and collections conservation, stacks maintenance, microfilming, environmental monitoring, and management of personnel, contracts, budgets, grants and funds. Prior to that, she served as Head of Preservation at The Johns Hopkins University’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library and Preservation Services Manager at Pittsburgh Regional Library Center. Jeanne has chaired many committees on preservation, co-authored several books and articles, and frequently presents lectures on a variety of topics. She received a Master of Library Science from the University of Missouri.
Maria Esteva
University of Texas at Austin
Maria Esteva is a Research Associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a position she has held since 2008. At TACC, she is part of a team that investigates analysis and visualization methods for archival processing and preservation assessment of large-scale and diverse electronic records collections, through the research support of the U.S. National Archives Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST). She also conducts research on management and preservation strategies for evolving research data collections from UT Austin. Her work in these areas has been presented at conferences focusing on the Digital Humanities, Digital Archiving, and Digital Curation. Maria earned a Masters in Science in Information Studies with an advanced certificate in Preservation Administration and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information.
Kenneth E. Harris
Library of Congress
Ken Harris served as the Preservation Projects Director at the Library of Congress until recently, when he retired after more than 42 years of Federal service. In this position, Ken managed the Library’s Mass Deacidification Program, which has treated over 3 million books and 8 million manuscript pages from the Library's collections to date, extending the useful life of these collection materials by 300 to 1,000 years. Ken developed the Program's 35-year, "One Generation" mass deacidification plan, which established the treatment of a minimum of 250,000 books and 1,000,000 loose sheets of Library material each year. Ken has also provided technical and contracting assistance to Library managers and to other institutions concerning a wide variety of preservation activities. He came to the Library in 1990 as the Director for Preservation, responsible for Library-wide activities relating to the preservation, conservation, restoration, protection, and maintenance of the Library's collections. Under Ken, the Directorate also participated in international outreach concerning library preservation and disaster response and provided domestic preservation and outreach through its National Preservation Program Office. Before coming to the Library, Ken worked at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration for 22 years, where he served as the Director of the Center of the Documentary Study of the American Revolution, Chief of Conservation, and Director of the Preservation Policy and Services Division. He has chaired the Committee on Conservation and Restoration of the International Council on Archives, has been a member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works and of the Society of American Archivists, the American Library Association, and the Preservation Committee of IFLA, and received a Presidential Commendation for service in 1977-78 on the President's Task Force on Reorganization of the Federal Government. Ken has a bachelor's and a master's degree from Oklahoma State University, where his major fields of study were history and historiography.
Charles J. Henry
Council on Library and Information Resources
Charles Henry is the President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Before coming to CLIR, Charles was the Provost and University Librarian at Rice University, where he was responsible for library services and programs, including the Digital Library Initiative and the Digital Media Center. He served as publisher of Rice University Press, the nation's first all-digital university press; was chair of the advisory committee for the Information Resource Center at the International University of Bremen for many years, and is a member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of Tan Tao University in Vietnam, serves on the advisory board of Stanford University Libraries, is also a board member of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and of the Center for Research Libraries, and a member of the Scientific Board of the Open Access Publishing in the European Network (OAPEN) project. Charles has written dozens of publications and has received numerous grants and awards, including from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Trust. He received a Fulbright senior scholar grant for library sciences in New Zealand and more recently in China, and a Fulbright award for the study of medieval literature in Vienna, Austria. Charles has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Northwest Missouri State University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, among other degrees.
Steven J. Herman
Library of Congress
Steve Herman has served as the Chief of the Collections Access, Loan & Management Division and its predecessor, the Collections Management Division, at the Library of Congress since 1978. As Chief, Steve manages more than 14 million books and bound periodicals and is particularly involved with the security and inventory management of the collections. He has given many presentations on collections security, coordinates many of the Library’s security programs, and was a key member in developing the Library's integrated Security Plan for the collections. Prior to assuming his current position, Steve was a network coordinator for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the Library of Congress, the Head of the Program for the Blind, Physically Handicapped, and Institutionalized for the State of New Jersey, and the Director of the Highland Park Public Library in New Jersey. Steve holds a B.S. in Psychology from the City College of New York; a Master's in Library Science from Rutgers University in New Jersey; and has studied for a Ph.D. in Library Science, also at Rutgers.
Jana Kolar
Science Directorate of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology of Slovenia
Jana Kolar is the Director General of Science and Technology at the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, in Slovenia. Before assuming this position in 2009, Jana was on the faculty of chemistry and chemical technology at the University of Ljubljana and the Head of Conservation and Preservation and the Head of the Laboratory for Cultural Heritage at the National and University Library in Ljubljana. She was also a director of Morana RTD company, where she still heads the RD department. She has published more than 50 scientific papers, written 13 chapters in books, and was the co-editor of 2 books, Ageing and Stabilisation of Paper and Iron Gall Inks: On Manufacture, Characterisation, Degradation and Stabilisation. Jana was the recipient of the 2002 Zois award for outstanding scientific contributions in the field of chemistry (Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport), the 2005 EUREKA Diploma (Slovenian Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology), and the 2006 Prometheus award for science communication (Slovenian Science Foundation). Jana earned a PhD in Chemistry in 1998 from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Most recently, Jana has been the lead on the European PaperTreat Project comparing papers treated a decade ago using different mass deacidification processes.
Deanna B. Marcum
Library of Congress
Deanna Marcum is the Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress. In this position, which she has held since 2003, Deanna oversees the Library's operations and initiatives in integrated library systems, preservation, access, collections security, acquisitions, and technological change. Her charge includes leading the Library in its efforts to meet the challenges posed by digital library materials. Prior to this, she served as Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library, the President and Vice-president of the Council on Library Resources, president of the Commission on Preservation and Access, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America. She has published numerous articles and books including, "Defining 'Common Good' in the Digital World" for Proceedings for the American Philosophical Society, Development of Digital Libraries: An American Perspective (as editor and contributing author), and Online Acquisitions for Libraries. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Illinois, a Master of Library Science from the University of Kentucky, and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland.
Antje Potthast
Department für Chemie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Antje Potthast is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Division of Organic Chemistry at the Universität für Bodenkultur (BOKU) Wien (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna) and the co-leader of the Christian-Doppler-Laboratory "Advanced Cellulose Chemistry and Analytics" at BOKU. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemistry at BOKU and a lecturer at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna. Antje has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters and is a co-owner of six patents in the field of paper chemistry. She was the recipient of the 1994 Gotthelf-Lohrmann Medal (Dresden University of Technology), the Hermann-Kolbe Award 1998 (German Chemical Society), and the 2005 Zellcheming Young Scientist Award. Antje earned a PhD in Chemistry in 1998 from the Institute of Plant and Wood Chemistry, Dresden University of Technology. Most recently, Antje has been the lead on a project with the German National Library, the State Library Berlin, the Swiss National Library, and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart to evaluate papers treated a decade ago using the CSC Booksaver® and Papersave® mass deacidification processes.
Steven Puglia
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Steven Puglia has worked as a Preservation and Imaging Specialist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for over 22 years. Currently, Steve manages efforts relating to research and development of imaging approaches, data management, development of supporting IT tools, and other technical support in the Digital Imaging Lab of the Special Media Preservation Division within Preservation Programs. Steve has a background in photography and began his career in preservation as a technical photographer at the Northeast Document Conservation Center duplicating historic negatives. Steve has over 17 years of experience working with digital imaging and lectures regularly on digitization and digital preservation. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s of fine arts in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Delaware.
Chandru J. Shahani
Formerly of the Library of Congress
Chandru Shahani retired from the Library of Congress in 2005 as Chief of the Preservation Research & Testing Division. In this position, Chandru directed research in preservation of library and archival materials ranging from books, historic documents, works of art on paper, photographic film, motion picture film, and magnetic media to digital media including compact discs and digital video discs. Before coming to the Library, Chandru was Chief of Preservation Research and of Photo and Audio Preservation at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, where he had also served as Chief of the Document Preservation Branch. Earlier, he had taught Chemistry at the City University of New York and also at New York University’s Conservation Center. He has published on a variety of subjects including accelerated aging of paper; polyester encapsulation; effects of environmental changes, alkaline reserve, and metal contaminants on the permanence of paper; technical requirements for mass deacidification treatment of books; and on the longevity of CD media.
Matthew J. Sheehy
Harvard Library
Matthew Sheehy is the Assistant Director of the Harvard Library for the Harvard Depository, where he manages a secure, reliable, and cost-effective archival environment for over 8 million library materials and addresses the changing nature of access to print and digital resources. Before coming to Harvard, Matthew was Acting Director for Reference and Research Services at the New York Public Library (NYPL) and was responsible for NYPL’s operations related to a high-density off-site storage facility shared by NYPL, Columbia University, and Princeton University. While at NYPL, he also led the Library’s virtual reference team, merged a disparate set of interlibrary loan (ILL) departments into a single comprehensive ILL service, shifted digital imaging operations from a collection-focused program into a public-facing, print-on-demand program, and defined the library instruction and digital literacy program as a core resource for teaching. Prior to his service at NYPL, Matthew served as Associate Dean for Technical and Access Services at Adelphi University, Assistant Head of Access/Collection Services for the New Brunswick libraries at Rutgers, Technical Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at Dowling College, and Music Cataloger and Assistant Head of the Music Library for State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has a bachelor’s of music in music composition from the University of Hartford/Hartt School of Music, a master’s in music history, and a Master of Library Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Mark Sweeney
Library of Congress
Mark Sweeney is the Chief of the Serial & Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress, where he is responsible for managing the newspaper, current periodical, and government document depository library collections. Physical access to the collections, including over twenty thousand newspaper titles in print, microform, and digital formats, is provided through the division’s Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room. Mark served as the Library’s technical liaison to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ United States Newspaper Program (USNP) and currently serves as program manager for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library to provide free and public access to historic American newspapers through a distributed digitization effort that centrally aggregates and serves converted newspapers through the Chronicling America Website (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/). Prior to his current position, Mark served as the Chief of the Library’s Preservation Reformatting Division (PRD). Mark received a Master of Library and Information Science from the Catholic University of America.
Dianne L. van der Reyden
Library of Congress
Dianne van der Reyden is the Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. She is responsible for Library-wide activities relating to preservation research, conservation, reformatting, mass deacidification, storage, binding, and maintenance of collections. She has presided over the expansion of the Library’s preservation initiatives, including the redesign of three science laboratories dedicated to environmental studies, testing, and quality assurance to optimize access to the Library's analog and digital collections through initiatives such as technology transfer research and development imaging projects. Previously, she was the Chief of Conservation at the Library and the Head of Paper Conservation at the former Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. Dianne has lectured and published widely on preservation management; materials science; selection criteria for digitization; visual storage systems; and technology and treatment development for documents, photographs, and three-dimensional paper artifacts. She serves as regional director for IFLA Preservation and Conservation North America Network, a board member of Heritage Preservation, and is a Fellow of AIC and IIC. She has a master’s in art history from New York University and certificates in conservation from New York University and from the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.
John Price Wilkin
University of Michigan and HathiTrust
John Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan and the Executive Director of HathiTrust, the large scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries, including approximately 8 million total volumes. John has led large-scale digitization initiatives since the mid 1990s at the University of Michigan and in the past 20 years has published and presented dozens of papers, many while serving as the first Head of the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan, including "Every Object Must Have A Home," "The Use of TEI [text encoding initiative] in North American Libraries," "Moving the Digital Library from 'Project' to 'Production'," "Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case Collections: Effectively leveraging rich document formats for the WWW," "Using the World Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries." At the University of Michigan, he has also been responsible for the development of the University's English and American language and literature collection, as well as for library research support for English faculty and graduate students. He implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). He has worked at the University of Virginia as Systems Librarian for Information Services, where he authored the Library's plan to establish a group of electronic centers, provided technical support for those centers, and consulted for the University's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities in textual issues. He posted the University of Virginia's first published Web site, the University Library site, in 1993. John earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
