Preservation Services at Dartmouth College: Personnel Announcement: Preservation Services and Cataloging and Metadata Services

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Personnel Announcement: Preservation Services and Cataloging and Metadata Services

We are pleased to announce a change in Bill Ghezzi’s role and job assignment in the Library. Effective immediately, Bill’s new title is Digital Production and Metadata Librarian. Bill reports half-time to Barb Sagraves and half-time to Cecilia Tittemore. This change represents a significant increase in Bill’s focus on work to support the Digital Library Program.

Since September 2012 Bill has been participating in a pilot project with a half-time assignment as Digital Production Manager in Preservation Services, and a half-time assignment as Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian in Cataloging and Metadata Services. Working together with Bill, we have assessed the impact of the pilot and determined that this division of Bill’s time, combined with his unique skill set, will help the Library move forward in fulfilling the ambitions of the Dartmouth Digital Library. With this announcement, the pilot period draws to a successful close.

During the pilot Bill took over management of existing Digital Production Unit workflows including the complex Occom Circle Project, the long-term Photo Files Project, and has been responsible from the start for the Donella Meadows Project. Bill has maintained his membership in the Digital Projects and Infrastructure Group (DPIG) and contributes his expertise as a cataloger and production manager to project planning and infrastructure development. In the area of digital preservation Bill has been collaborating with Barb and Paul Merchant to develop a protocol for depositing masters and derivatives on the server for long-term storage. Bill has worked with Ryland Ianelli and Barb Sagraves to ensure uniform application of digitization standards from project start-up.

This new position also includes an increased focus on defining standards and practices for metadata for Dartmouth Digital Library content, including local policies for object identifiers, and for ongoing management of library metadata.

Our thanks go to Bill for recognizing an opportunity for deep collaboration between our departments as the Digital Production Unit began to take shape, and we are extremely grateful to him for proposing this plan and seeing it through to a successful outcome. Cataloging and Metadata Services will be making adjustments to assignments and priorities over the next few months to help support this important collaboration. This change, together with the initiation in 2010 of the Text Markup Unit, managed by Mina Rakhra, represents significant support from Cataloging and Metadata Services for the work of the Dartmouth Digital Library.

Cecilia P. Tittemore, Head, Cataloging and Metadata Services

Barb Sagraves, Head, Preservation Services

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Deborah Howe Is the Collections Conservator at Dartmouth College Library. She's been involved in the book community for over 20 years. She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers and teaches classes in the Book Arts program.

Ryland Ianelli Is a cartoonist and Project Specialist in the Dartmouth Preservation Services department. He graduated from Reed College with a BA in Art History in 2008 and, more recently, from the Center for Cartoon Studies with an MFA in Cartooning in 2010. In addition to his work in Preservation and the Digital Production Unit, he is currently drawing and writing for various independently published comics and anthologies.

Barb Sagraves has been head of Preservation Services since its creation in 1995. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan SLIS program, has an MA in Medieval History from Michigan State University, and a BA in History from the University of Oklahoma. In her role as department head, Barb has overall responsibility for the preservation program and policies at Dartmouth College Library and is in charge of the Book Arts Program.

Jenny Mullins has been the Digital Preservation Librarian for Dartmouth College Library since May of 2014. Prior to coming to Dartmouth, she preserved video and audio collections, helped build a digital repository and worked in book and paper conservation labs. Jenny is a member of ALA and co-chair of the Preservation Metadata Interest Group for 2015-17.