NISO Virtual Conference, Digitization, Discovery, and Use, March 23, 2022

These half-day events cover a range of important and timely topics in more depth than our monthly webinars. With expert speakers from across the information community, they include a mix of formats — keynotes, case studies, perspectives, and vision interviews. Recordings are shared immediately with registered participants, and made openly available after two years.

Since 2017, Ed Galloway serves as the Associate University Librarian for Archives & Special Collections within the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS). As a member of the ULS senior management team, he is responsible for the leadership of the Archives & Special Collections department (17 FTE) and Area Study librarians (4 FTE). He provides administrative oversight of the personnel, collections, services, and activities of the department and unit, and coordinates, conducts, and participates in ULS strategic planning activities as appropriate. Galloway manages the operating budget and special gift/grant accounts within his area, and serves as the main point of contact for donor relations pertaining to gifts of archives, rare books and manuscripts. Galloway oversees efforts within the Digital Curation and Preservation unit to develop strategies for accessioning, appraising, processing and providing research access to electronic files as they pertain to archival collections. He also oversees the building of ULS digital collections, including the promotion and use of such collections. Galloway has been with the University of Pittsburgh since 2000 when he was hired as the first coordinator of the Digital Research Library unit. He then became head of the Archives Service Center in 2008. Prior to his employment at Pitt, he worked for Carnegie Mellon University Libraries as the inaugural Senator H. John Heinz III Archivist (1993-2000). Galloway received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas) in 1989 and his Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas (Austin, Texas) in 1993.

Jeff Wisniewski is the Director of Web Services & Communications at the University of Pittsburgh Library System. He provides strategic oversight of the library’s 100+ websites, external marketing and communications, social media, and grant writing and support activities. He serves on the library leadership team, provides strategic guidance to the library’s planning and budgeting committee, and has been a part of the team responsible for shaping the spaces and programs for the Pittsburgh campus main library’s top to bottom five-year renovation.

Jon's primary responsibilities include leading public, technical, and digitization services. He has also established the Libraries' Accessibility Office, which works closely with the University's Office of Student Disabilities Services and Learning Resources Center. Finally, he oversees the Libraries' Community Outreach and Engagement program to work with local nonprofits on re-establishing and operating over a dozen public school libraries in the city of Philadelphia. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Temple University, an MLIS from Drexel, and an MS in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral work is in Higher Education at Temple University. In 2016, he was selected as a Senior Fellow in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.S

Julia Corrin currently serves as the University Archivist at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to managing the University’s physical history, she helps oversee an online repository that holds over 3 million pages of digitized content and recently led a project to migrate 30 years of digitized content to Islandora 8. She previously served as the Political Collections and Access Archivist at Arkansas State University and received her MSI from the University of Michigan.

Karin Wulf is Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian, John Carter Brown Library. In that role, she is responsible for overseeing all programmatic and administrative activities of the Library as well as providing strategic direction for all of the Library’s priorities. She further works to enhance and grow the Library’s collection as a leading collection for the Early Americas and an international center for advanced research in history and the humanities. She is also professor of History at Brown University. Prior to assuming her current role in 2021, Karin was Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and Professor of History at William & Mary. A blogger for The Scholarly Kitchen, where she writes about humanities publishing and a past member of the ORCID board, she is also a cofounder of Women Also Know History, a media and curriculum tool for promoting the work of women historians. She tweets @kawulf.

Mike Furlough is Executive Director of HathiTrust, an organization that contributes to research and scholarship by collaboratively collecting, preserving, and sharing the scholarly record.  HathiTrust stewards more than 17 million digitized books and journals digitized on behalf of nearly 200 supporting member libraries.  Furlough leads the strategic development of HathiTrust’s programs and services, including its digital library, access for print disabled users, copyright research, innovative support for text and data mining, and the establishment of a distributed print archive among its members.  His career has long taken place at the intersection of emerging technologies and scholarly practices and in the past he has worked in various roles in the libraries at Penn State University Libraries and the University of Virginia. 

Nicole Finzer is Digital Projects & Outreach Librarian at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Prior to this she was the Digital Curation Librarian and Visual Resources Librarian at Northwestern University, Visual Resources Specialist at Bryn Mawr College, and Assistant Curator of Visual Resources at the Pennsylvania State University. Before pursuing her Master of Library Science (MLS), she worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, and Chicago History Museum. She has a MLS from Indiana University Bloomington and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She recently completed her Project Management Certificate and is working on her Museum Studies Certificate through Northwestern University.