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Project Director for Johns Hopkins University for the UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive (July 28, 2022 – ). [job description]
- Remotely lead work of archivists, software developers, grad students, and faculty from Johns Hopkins University contributing to a 30-person collaborative effort with University of California, San Francisco that has received over $16 million to publicly disclose 10 million documents arising from the opioid industry.
- Serve as chief of staff to project executive to increase efficiency and productivity of team.
- Draft and negotiate terms for contracts between the universities and with corporate funders.
- Track budget spending and time of core team members working on a digital archive. Scrutinize budget forecasts.
- Contribute to narratives and budget proposals for seeking funding from agencies, foundations, and prosecutors.
- Articulate a vision for supporting data science methods on a digital archive to reach new audiences and serve new user needs. Collaborate with software architect to explore use of AI models to increase access to an archive of millions of documents.
- 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]
- Served on executive team helping to set direction and policy for an organization of 150 fulltime employees and 250 part-time student employees with a budget of $24 million.
- Served on Public Services Management Team, communicating and collaborating with other division leaders. Led unit (up to 6 FTE) within Public Services Division whose members served primarily as subject librarians and provided research support for graduate students and faculty (beginning 2020).
- Collaborated with research office to design and implement a workflow for ensuring compliance with funder mandates to provide public access to research products.
- Led major revision of university-wide policy on public access to research products.
- Fostered the creation of publications about the distinctive collections held by the UNT Libraries (through 2017).
- 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.
- 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).
- Continued performing duties from previous role.
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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).
- Used systems thinking to lay foundation for catalyzing change in faculty behavior around publishing and communication with peers.
- Provided guidance on creating data-management plans.
- Continued performing duties from previous role.
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Director of Library Publishing (May 12, 2014 – August 31, 2015). [job description]
- Created and operated a fee-for-use service that brokered vendor-provided services to faculty and staff based on competitive bids, relieving pressure on the university press.
- Cultivated a pool of vendors for bidding on providing publishing services. Contracted with them as needed.
- Fostered the creation of publications about the unique collections of the UNT Libraries.
- Supported members of the UNT community in their publishing endeavors through an Editors' Roundtable, collected online resources, and individual consultations.
- Served as subject librarian for linguistics program (now Department of Linguistics) (beginning August 2014).
- Served as subject librarian for the Intensive English Language Institute (beginning July 2015).
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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.
- As a member of senior management team, 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].
- As a member of senior management team, 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 and collaborated with software developers to meet partner needs.
- 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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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 |