This panel will highlight librarian and library staff support of past and present DH projects, including digital publication, database development, geographic information systems (GIS) and electronic literature projects. See other DH Faire festivities from April 11 - 13.
Speakers
Susan Powell is the GIS & Map Librarian in the Earth Sciences & Map Library at Cal. Before coming to Berkeley she was a GIS Specialist at the Yale University Library. She has masters’ degrees in both Geography and Library Science from Indiana University, and is interested in new mapping technologies, data accessibility, and Mongolia, among other things.
Harrison Dekker has enjoyed a long career in data as both a librarian and programmer. In 2002 he was hired by the University of California, Berkeley to develop the Library's first data services program and he's been there ever since. He holds an MLIS from San Jose State University and BA in Economics from the University of Colorado.
Sharon Goetz is the Digital Publications Manager at The Bancroft Library's Mark Twain Project, with lead responsibility for marktwainproject.org. She has also written software manuals, taught college writing, and completed a PhD investigating medieval English chronicles amidst their manuscript contexts. Sharon's participation in what's now digital humanities began with TEI in 1996.
Cody Hennesy is the E-Learning and Information Studies Librarian at UC Berkeley, where he works on issues of information literacy and user experience related to research and discovery. Cody has ten years experience focusing on technology in academic libraries, and was previously the Systems Librarian at California College of the Arts in Oakland. Current interests include computational text analysis and web scraping as scholarly research methods.