Faculty Bios

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS
Foundations for DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

April 22-24, 2025 (Tuesday-Thursday) * Online

		Julianna Barrera-Gomez, Digital Accessions Specialist, Digital Preservation Services, Harvard University   Bio forthcoming
		Lotus Norton-Wisla, Interim Head of Manuscripts, Archives & Digital Collections and Community Outreach Archivist, Washington State University Bio forthcoming
		Katherine Fisher, Head of Digital Archives, Rose Library, Emory University  Katherine is Head of Digital Archives at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, where she manages a team responsible for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to born-digital and digitized collections and provides leadership and expertise in digital collection management across multiple Emory libraries.  Prior to joining Emory, she worked as Digital Preservation Archivist at Georgia State University Library and as Digital Projects Coordinator for the University of Hawaiʻi Press. Katherine holds an MLIS from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a PhD in English from the University of Michigan.
		Angela Fritz, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Iowa Bio forthcoming
		Lindsey Richardson, Principal, Museum Person   Bio forthcoming
		Sibyl Schaefer, Chronopolis Program Manager, University of California, San Diego Sibyl Schaefer has published and presented extensively on digital preservation practice and infrastructure as well as digital archives workflow, description and management, and open source software. She serves as the Chronopolis Program Manager and Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of California, San Diego. She previously served as the Head of Digital Programs for the Rockefeller Archive Center where she worked to fully integrate digital and traditional archival practices, including policy development, forensic and accessioning workflows, and training initiatives to support the long-term stewardship of digitized and born digital materials. She has been recognized as an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association and the Archival Leadership Institute. Schaefer holds an MLIS with a specialization in Archival Studies from UCLA.
		Ann Marie Willer, Director of Preservation, NEDCC Ann Marie Willer has worked as a professional in the field of library preservation since 2002. She has expertise in preservation program management, digitization workflows and best practices, the preservation of paper-based and audio-visual materials, and emergency preparedness and response. She previously served as Preservation Librarian for the MIT Libraries and the University of North Texas Libraries and has pre-professional experience in special collections, exhibits, cataloging, and general collections conservation. Ann Marie earned an MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas, an MA in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music, and a certificate from Rutgers’ Preservation Management Institute.
		Elliot Williams, Metadata Strategist, The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Elliot Williams is the Metadata Strategist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he focuses on metadata quality and interoperability across systems. He has over 10 years of experience working with metadata, and previously worked at Texas Digital Library as the DPLA Aggregation Service Coordinator and at the University of Miami as a metadata librarian. He previously taught an introductory metadata class for Library Juice Academy.  Elliot holds a Masters in Information Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in History from the University of Miami.