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Education and Certification
- Master of Science in Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, January 2001. Beta Phi Mu honorary. Recipient of Special Faculty Award for Service to Faculty and Students.
- Member, Academy of Certified Archivists, 1989 to present.
- Master of Arts in American Studies. University of Texas at Austin, May 1987. Thesis: Alfred Stieglitz: The Early Years, 1883 - 1907.
- Bachelor of Journalism in photojournalism. With honors. University of Texas at Austin, 1976.
Awards
- Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology, sponsored by the Library Information Technology Association and OCLC, 2007.
- Fellow, Society of American Archivists, 2005.
- Archival Research Fellow, National Historical Publications and Records Administration, 2002-2003.
- Lila B. Wallace Reader's Digest Museum Collections Accessibility Initiative Research Scholar, the Heard Museum, 1993 to 1994.
Professional Affiliations
Research
- Principal Investigator, Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS), funded by the Library of Congress, National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, Library Services and Technology Act, 2007 to present.
- Researcher, University of Illinois and OCLC ECHO DEPository research project, funded by the Library of Congress National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program, 2004 to present.
- Member, InterPARES 2 Glossary Cross-Domain Team, 2003 to present.
Professional Employment
- Deputy Director For Technology and Information Resources. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 2007 to present.
Oversees and directs the enterprise architecture for information systems used to manage the agency's library, archival, and other collections, including both physical and electronic hold-ings. Supervises and directs the Chief Technology Officer, technology staff, and digital repository coordina-tors. Continues former responsibilities of Director of Digital Government Information.
- Director of Digital Government Information. Arizona State Library,
Archives and Public Records. 2001 to present.
Responsibilities include coordinating the development of policies, procedures, and regulations to ensure that electronic records and publications of state government are managed efficiently and effectively; that the information is authentic, reliable, and trustworthy; and that e-government and e-citizens have the information they need to conduct business and provide public accountability.
- Coordinator, Cultural Inventory Project. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 1999 to 2001.
Principal responsibilities include developing an exhaustive directory of all libraries, archives, and museums in Arizona, describing their mission and scope of collections, and describing the collections of unique and rare Arizoniana held by those repositories; and preparing a finding aid and collection-level catalog records for more than 2,500 linear feet of territorial and state publications.
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Documentary Collections Archivist and Automation Coordinator. Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. 1993 to 1999.
Responsibilities include all aspects of managing the archival collections, including acquisition, arrangement and description, preservation, and reference; negotiation of rights and reproduction of all the museum's holdings, including fine art and ethnographic collections.
Automation responsibilities include managing and developing programming for a multimedia distribution system used in the galleries; management of Internet services, including e-mail and a Web server; and management of a PC local area network and of a UNIX network.
- Curator of Photographs. Department of Archives and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Arizona State University. 1988 to 1994. Promoted to the rank of Associate Archivist with continuing appointment, 1992.
Principal responsibilities included directing the processing and preservation of some 450,000 photographs within the university's archives and three special collections. Duties include setting policy and procedures; appraisal and acquisition of materials, including field collecting and donor relations; providing access through the creation of finding aids and access tools, local databases, and collection-level cataloging in MARC-AMC and MARC-VM; reference service for the collections in all formats; and managing a photographic preservation program.
- Records Consultant. Local Records Division, Texas State Library and Archives. 1987 to 1988.
Principal responsibilities were to advise and assist local governments (cities, counties, and special districts) on the development of records management programs. Duties included in-office evaluations, inventory analysis, appraisal, developing retention schedules, presentations to governing bodies, and workshops. Additional responsibilities included the supervision of nine Regional Historical Resource Depositories. Duties included appraising, accessioning, and processing of permanently valuable records; preparing finding aids; answering patron reference questions; providing public relations for genealogists and other groups; and promoting academic use of the materials.
- Historic Photography Project Coordinator and Assistant Editor of Heritage magazine. Texas Historical Foundation. 1984 to 1987.
Principal responsibilities were the preparation of a state-wide survey of museum, corporate, and government collections of photographs published as Photographic Collections in Texas: A Union Guide. Duties included the identification of repositories, mail surveys, inventory of major collections, writing entries and indices, contract negotiations with publishers, layout design, typesetting, and promotion.
Additional responsibilities included consulting with photographic repositories, reviewing photography programs' requests for funding, writing grants, and coordinating and developing other photography projects for the foundation. As Assistant Editor of Heritage, duties included soliciting articles, reviewing manuscripts, editing copy for content and style, and writing book reviews.
Past responsibilities included researching and selecting images for Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait. Duties included visiting repositories, writing captions, making copy photographs, obtaining permissions, and working with the publisher and book designer in layout and promotion of the book.
- Assistant to the Curator. Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin. 1981 to 1984.
Principal responsibilities included documenting collections and the developing an automated catalog, providing patron access to the materials, giving tours, answering research queries, preparing exhibits, and supervising a staff of five in daily operations and preservation of book and photographic materials.
Selected Papers and Publications
- "What is a Digital Asset?," presented at Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets, 2006.
- "Janus in Cyberspace: Archives on the Threshold of the Digital Era, presented at the Joint Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, and the Council of State Archivists in Washington, DC, August 2006.
- "New Skills, New Knowledge, and New Attitudes for a Digital Era," Archival Outlook, July/August 2006.
- "The Perfect and the Possible: Becoming a Digital Archivist," presented at the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, May 2006.
- "Becoming an Archivist in the Digital Era," Archival Outlook, May/June 2006.
- With Thomas Habing and Taylor Surface. "Collaborative Digital Projects: The ECHO Depository," presented at Computers in Libraries, March 2006.
- "Identity and Diversity: What is an Archivist?," Archival Outlook (March/April 2006).
- "Reconceptualizing and Reengineering the Archival Profession," Archival Outlook (January/February 2006).
- "What is a Digital Asset?," presented at Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets, 2005.
- "A Professional Response to Disaster," Archival Outlook (November/December 2005).
- "An Archivist's Response to the Digital Era," Archival Outlook (September/October 2005).
- "The Winds of Change: Blown to Bits," incoming presidential address, Society of American Archivists, 2005.
- A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (Society of American Archivists, 2005). Also available online at www.archivists.org/glossary/
- "A Bridge to the Future," keynote at the Society of Southwest Archivists, May 2005.
- With GladysAnn Wells (principal author). "From Bibliographer to Curator: Archival Strategies for Capturing Web Publications." Presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council, August 2005.
- "Preserving the Web," panel presentation at the Joint CIMA/NWA/SCA/SRMA Meeting, April 2005.
- With Joanne Kaczmarek. "An Arizona Model for Preservation and Access of Web Documents," DttP: Documents to the People 33:1 (Spring 2005).
- "An Arizona Model for Capturing and Describing Documents on the Web," NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship Symposium, November 2004.
- Contributor to Challenges in Managing Records in the 21st Century" (National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Committee, 2004).
- "Arizona Approaches to State Documents on the Web," presented at the California State Library Web Documents Conference, March 2004.
- "Developing a Tribal Archives," preconference workshop at Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums: Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways, Mesa 2002.
- The Language of Archives: Essence and Identity, presented at the NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship Symposium, June 2003.
- "Going to Hell in an Email: Best Practices for Use and Retention," panel presentation at the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Committee, December 2002.
- Contributor to "Managing E-Mail" (National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Committee, December 2002).
- Contributor to "Creating and Maintaining Proper Systems for Electronic Record Keeping," (National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Committee, December 2002).
- "Arizona State Library and Archives: Improving Digitization Projects in Arizona," panel presentation at the LSTA conference Impact 2000, October 2000.
- ""Caught in a World Wide Web of Words," presented at the Society of American Archivists annual conference, 1995.
- "Finding the Needle: Reference Service in Photographic Archives." Visual Resources 10:251-263.
- "My, What Good Access You Have: Archives and the Big Red Books," presented at the Society of American Archivists annual conference, 1994.
- ""Old Hay in New Stacks: Researching Photo Archives in the 21st Century," presented at the American Association of Museums annual conference, 1994.
- With Rob Spindler. "Does AMC Mean "Archives Made Confusing?" Patron Understanding of USMARC AMC Records." American Archivist 56:2 (Spring 1993).
- "Round Pegs in Square Holes: Description of Visual Materials," paper presented at Society of American Archivists annual conference, 1993.
- Photographic Collections in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Arizona State University(the Department, 1991). Collections guide.
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Oxford University Press, 1990). Contributed entries for photographic terminology.
- "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose: Problems of Descriptive Photographic Terminology," presented at Society of American Archivists annual conference, 1989.
- Photographic Collections in Texas: A Union Guide (Texas A&M University Press, 1987).
- "Alfred Stieglitz: The Early Years," presented to the Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Association, 1985.
- Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait. (Texas Monthly Press, 1985). Martha Sandweiss, Roy Flukinger, and Anne Tucker, eds.; essay by William Owens; picture research and captions by Richard Pearce-Moses.
- "Seeing Between the Lines: The Interpretation of Photographs," PhotoLetter 4:3 (Fall 1983).
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