DIGITIZING IN A MATERIAL WORLD
A symposium on Planning, Preserving and Accessing a variety of materials in a digital collection.

• Ira Bray
  Ira Bray is a technology consultant with the Library Development Services Bureau of the California State Library. For the past five years he has been the project monitor for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funded Local History Digital Resources Project (LHDRP). He is also project monitor for the California Digital Newspaper Collection LSTA grant. As State Data Coordinator he manages the annual library survey and the production of California Library Statistics as well as the California Library Directory. He holds a Masters degree from UC Berkeley in Library & Information Studies, and a B.S from UC Davis in Applied Behavioral Sciences.



• Maureen Burns
  Maureen Burns is the Humanities Curator in the University of California's Visual Resources Collection. She has been the facilitator for the UC Visual Resources Group for the last decade working with the UC Libraries and California Digital Library to digitize, federate, and make accessible photographic collections in the UC Image Service. Burns' current research interests are focused on digital image service usability, assessment, training, and outreach with an article in the Journal of Archival Organization entitled, "From Horse-Drawn Wagon to Hot Rod: The University of California's Digital Image Service Experience."
  
  Recent professional activities include Chairing the VRA Education Committee and participating in the Digital Intitiatives Advisory group, serving as the Secretary for the VRA Southern California Chapter, and working as systems administrator for the online Journal of Learning through the Arts. She has a doctorate in Educational Administration from the joint Leadership program at UCI and UCLA and a M.A. in Art History focused on Roman Art and Archaeology.



• Roberto Esteves
  Roberto Esteves was co-founder of the Califa Library Group, which is the fiscal agent for the Local History Digital Resources Support Services grant funded through the California State Library. In the days before Califa (B.C .), Roberto was Chief of Information Resources for the San Francisco Public Library, managing the Library’s website development and information resources. He now oversees the development of Califa’s Digitization services including CONTENTdm and master contracts with various vendors.



• Geri Ingram
  Geri Bunker Ingram, MLIS, serves as Manager,Customer Services for OCLC's Digital Collection Services division. Before joining DiMeMa, Inc. in 2005, Geri consulted for libraries, museums and archives on all aspects of digital library building, and on the implementation of CONTENTdm in particular. She facilitated strategic planning for information technology and digital library programs in her roles as manager and administrator at three major universities; the University of California, the University of Washington and Texas A&M University.
  
  As Associate Director for Resources and Collection Management Services and Digital Initiatives Coordinator, she helped to develop the first Digital Initiatives Program at the University of Washington, 1996-2000. During that time, she collaborated with the Center for Information Systems Optimization (CISO)lab on their development of CONTENT (now CONTENTdm) digital collection management software.



• Trudy Levy
  Since 1994, Trudy has committed herself to de-mystifying technology and taking advantage of the great access possibilities that technology offers, especially when it comes to her passion -- visual information.
  
  Through her consultant work assisting the transition to a digital collection, she has helped create digital repositories for a variety of collections from subway tokens to frogs. As an early evangelist of digital access, Trudy is often sought for speaking and writing engagements on the topic of creating a digital collection, including in MCN's Spectra and ZDTV. She can also be found regularly at her firm's Web site, DIG-mar.com where she is the Gert of "Gert Says." As an active member of both MCN and VRA, she continues her pursuit of greater access for more to more.



• David Nimmer
  David Nimmer is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, California. He also served as a visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles Law School and Distinguished Scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Prof. Nimmer represents clients in the entertainment, publishing, and high-technology fields. He gave congressional testimony on behalf of the United States Telephone Association in 1997 and the National Association of Broadcasters in 1992, and Parliamentary testimony on behalf of the Combined Newspaper and Magazine Copyright Committee of Australia in Sydney in 1993.
  
  Prof. Nimmer also served as the Chairman on the Committee on Intellectual Properties Litigation for the American Bar Association from 1989-1992. He has also published a series of influential articles on the subject of U.S. and international copyright. In 2003, Kluwer International published an anthology of his articles under the title Copyright: Sacred Text, Technology and the DMCA.



• Vickie O'Riordan
  Vickie O’Riordan is the Visual Resources Curator in the Arts Libraries at the University of California San Diego. She served as project director of a Mellon funded grant to digitize the UCSD slide collection for inclusion in ARTstor and presented a paper on the collaborative work between ARTstor and the UCSD Libraries at the Computers in Art Conference in the UK. She was a project partner on the Mellon funded Union Catalog for Art Images (UCAI) Project. Recent research includes the potential and future of image records in library OPACs. Her most recent paper, published in the VRA Bulletin, is entitled “Rethinking Purgatory; or What Can Visual Resources Curators Learn from Working in Big Academic Libraries?”
  
  O’Riordan is currently serving on the Board of the Visual Resources Association. She is also a member of the Visual Resources Association’s Intellectual Property Rights Committee and Data Standards Committee. In the summer of 2004 Ms. O’Riordan and Maureen Burns (UCI) organized and hosted a conference on digital use in the classroom held at the UCSD Libraries. Ms. O’Riordan holds degrees in art history and criticism and is a lecturer in film history at UCSD.



• Leah Prescott
  Leah Prescott is currently the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), where her responsibilities include participation in research and development of digital solutions, including digital repositories for access and preservation.
  
  Before working at the GRI, Ms. Prescott was Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, as well as Collections Information Technology Coordinator at Mystic Seaport Museum where her responsibilities included managing a digital repository that integrated access between library, museum, and archival materials.
  
  Ms. Prescott has a B.A. degree in History from the University of Connecticut, an M.L.S degree from Syracuse University, and is a Certified Archivist.



• Mary Reinsch Sackett
  Mary Reinsch Sackett is both the Head of Conservation and Preservation and the Head of Visual Media Services (VMS) at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). In the past two years, VMS has transformed into an entirely digital photography capture environment. VMS is responsible for the imaging of all GRI Library collection materials, videotaping GRI events, symposia and lectures and the documentation of all GRI exhibitions. The Conservation and Preservation staff conserves a vast array of formats in the both the Research Library and Institutional Archives collections for exhibition and research purposes. Among their activities is the reformatting of all audio visual collection holdings into analog and digital preservation masters and digital user copies.
  
  Mary has an MLSIS from UCLA. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC); an Editorial Board member for Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals; and a Member Representative for the Balboa Art Conservation Center, San Diego, CA.



• John Sarnoski
  Work History
  Theologian - Newman Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin
  Owner ¨C Great River Systems/MicroAge, La Crosse, Wisconsin and Minneapolis Minnesota
  Designed the "Learning Center" concept for systems integrators. Taught courses in Computer Aided-Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing for IBM, Sun and sessions for the IEEE.
  Product Manager- Indus MIS, West Salem, Wisconsin Designed imaging software systems.
  Director, Imaging Products- Northern Micrographics, La Crosse, Wisconsin - Created Imaging conversion systems used in "The Making of America Project", "Historic Pittsburgh" and others.
  Owner ¨C Sarney Systems, Onalaska, Wisconsin 1979-Present - Wrote software for Pork Production, Kiln Inventory Systems, Precision ART, Coop Milk Disbursements, Gasoline Wholesaling, Title Insurance Systems, Digital Imaging.
  Non Profit and Consulting Work
  First President and co-founder La Crosse Personal Computer User Group
  First President and co-founder La Crosse Area Communication Consortium
  Former Treasurer / Vice President Clearwater Farm Foundation
  Director The ResCarta Foundation, Inc.
  Consultant to Fast Cad, Phoenix, Arizona
  Consultant to The Trane Company
  Consultant to Hawkins Ash Baptie Certified Accountants
  Consultant to MicroAge Computer Stores
  Awards
  Awarded the "Ideas into Action" award by MicroAge Corporate of Tempe Arizona
  Speaker/Presenter
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "CAD/CAM" conference Chicago, Illinois
  IBM "Computer Integrated Manufacturing" Minneapolis, Minnesota
  SUN Microsystems "Intelligent Documentation" Madison, Wisconsin
  Hewlett-Packard "Office Document Systems" New York, New York
  American Library Association "ResCarta" San Diego, California
  Internet Librarian "Why Digital will fail and what we can do about it." Monterey, California
  Wisconsin Library Association "Imaging A-Z" La Crosse, Wisconsin
  OCLC "Digital Archiving" Madison, Wisconsin
  University of Minnesota "Creating E-Books: Resources and Issues Involved with Scanning/OCR"
  American Library Association "ResCarta"
  WEMA 'Hands on XML: A "Tour" of Extensible Markup Language'
  Presenter of Continuing Education Courses
  Texas Library Association "MAKING A DIGITAL COLLECTION: A COOKBOOK"
  Maine Library Association "Making the Digital Garden Grow"
  Special Libraries Association "Digitization-Open-Source Software for Integrating Digital Collections"



• Adrian Turner
  Adrian Turner (MA, MLIS) currently serves as Data Consultant at the California Digital Library (CDL). Since 2002, he has served as CDL project manager for the California Local History Digital Resources Project, a statewide digitization program supported by the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the California State Library. Prior to joining the CDL, he worked as an archivist and manuscripts processor at UC Irvine Special Collections and Archives and the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center, and as a antiquarian book cataloger in Southern California.

The Digitization Symposium is supported by the U.S. Institute of Musueum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) administered in California by the State Librarian.