Please feel free to contact any of the current officers if you have questions about SIG-DL:
Chair Marisa L. Ramirez
Chair-elect [VACANT]
Communications Tina Jayroe
Treasurer Lizzy Rolando
Membership Anne Diekema
Web Master Dot Porter
Past Chair Susan Wells Parham

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  • Access to the Digital Library
  • Discounts on conferences
  • Copies of our publications
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Officer Position Descriptions and Duties

http://www.asis.org/wiki/chapters-sigs/index.php/SIG-DL_Officer_Positions


Officer Biographies



Chair - Marisa Ramirez
Marisa is the Digital Repository Librarian at Cal Poly and is primarily responsible for the development and implementation of the DigitalCommons@CalPoly, a digital repository that provides online open access to scholarship and research produced by Cal Poly faculty and students. The repository also provides access to relevant documents created by administrative offices, departments and programs at Cal Poly.
Marisa served as 2010-2011 SIG DL Treasurer and as 2011-12 SIG DL Chair-Elect.

 




Communications - Tina Jayroe
Tina is SIG DL's Communication Officer and has been an ASIS&T member since 2007. She is a PhD student/IMLS fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Information Studies. She received her MLIS is from the University of Denver and is an ASIS&T 2010 New Leaders awardee. Her dream came true when she presented at SIG/CON 2010 goo.gl/xbV0i and she loves Noam Chomsky.




Treasurer - Lizzy Rolando
Elizabeth (Lizzy) Rolando is the Research Data Librarian in the Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Department at the Georgia Tech Library. She graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a specialization in Informatics, and her research was centered on the data practices of science and technology researchers.




Membership - Anne Diekema
Anne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Her research interests are in digital libraries, information retrieval, information organization, and human information behavior. Anne is especially interested in the use of technology to assist teachers and students in finding information in educational digital libraries. Currently, she is teaching aspiring school librarians as part of the School Library Media Administration program. As the current membership officer of SIG DL, Anne consolidated SIG DL membership lists from ASIS&T, the SIGDL listserv, Facebook, and LinkedIn. One of the membership challenges of SIG DL is how to get non-members who are part of the our social networking venues, to become SIG DL members.




Webmaster - Dot Porter
Dot Porter is the Associate Director for Digital Library Content & Services at the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. Dot holds Master's degrees in medieval studies and library science and started her career working on image-based digital editions of medieval manuscripts. She has worked on a variety of projects, focusing on materials as diverse as ancient texts and Russian religious folklore, providing both technical support and scholarly expertise. Since 2010 she has been in her current position in the Digital Library Program at the IU Bloomington Libraries, where she leads the creation of new services to support librarians and faculty in the creation of digital projects. Dot is an ASIS&T 2012 New Leaders awardee.




Past Chair - Susan Wells Parham
Susan Wells Parham is Research Data Librarian at the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center where she provides direction for the library's program in digital research data curation. She chairs the Research Data Project Team, which conducts research into the data curation needs and practices of GT researchers, and is developing coordinated data curation services with campus partners. Parham has a background in the management of digital library technologies and services.