Stanford University Libraries
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Tamar Barzel
Head of Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound, Music Library
Current Role at StanfordI manage the Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound. As a music subject specialist with a research background in ethnomusicology, I also build our collections and provide support for research into music of all times and places.
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Catherine Nicole Coleman
Research Director, Humanities+Design, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
Digital Research Architect, Library TechnologyBioNicole is Digital Research Architect for the Stanford University Libraries and Research Director for Humanities+Design, a research lab at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Nicole works at the intersection of the digital library and digital scholarship as a lead architect in the design and development of practical research services. She is currently leading an initiative within the Library to identify and enact applications of artificial intelligence —machine perception, machine learning, machine reasoning, and language recognition— to make the collections of maps, photographs, manuscripts, data sets and other assets more easily discoverable, accessible, and analyzable.
At Humanities + Design she has led the design and development of numerous tools for data visualization and analysis including Palladio, Breve, and, most recently, Data Pen. The lab encourages and supports collaboration between researchers from the humanities and design to encode interpretive method in tools for data analysis. Lessons learned in that work have proven essential to designing human-centered applications of machine intelligence in support of research. -
Nathan Coy
Sound Archives Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound
Current Role at StanfordNathan provides research support to users of the Archive of Recorded Sound and works to provide resources that empower those inquiring into our shared recorded history.
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Quinn Dombrowski
Academic Technology Specialist in Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
BioQuinn Dombrowski supports digitally-facilitated research in the DLCL and CIDR as the Academic Technology Specialist.
She has been involved with digital humanities since 2004, working on a variety of projects including a medieval Russian database, a digital research environment for Bulgarian linguistics and folklore, a Drupal-based platform for developing digital catalogues raisonnés for art historians, and the financial papers of George Washington.
From 2008-2012, Quinn was on the program staff of the Mellon-funded digital humanities cyberinfrastructure initiative Project Bamboo. Her article “What Ever Happened to Project Bamboo?” reflects on the rise and fall of that effort.
Quinn was a co-founder of DHCommons, a directory of digital humanities projects with an overlay journal, and was the director of the DiRT (Digital Research Tools) directory from 2010 until 2017. She has served on the executive board of the Association for Computers and the Humanities from 2014-2018.
She is a co-editor of the Coding for Humanists series of practical, hands-on guides to digital humanities tools and technologies, and was the author of the inaugural volume, Drupal for Humanists. Her other book, Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur, documents graffiti in the University of Chicago’s Regenstein library. -
Glynn Edwards
Assistant Director, Special Collections
Current Role at StanfordGlynn is the Assistant Director in the Department of Special Collections & University Archives is primarily in charge of the Collection Services Division and the libraries' Born- and Acquired-Digital Programs. She also collaborates with other managers to develop new programs and directions within the department.
Collection Services staff work collaboratively with over 20 subject specialists and curators throughout the library; we take in over 350 collections each year, totaling between 1,800 and 3,500 linear feet (this is equivalent to 2.5-6 million documents) a year. Our focus is on collection management as well as discovery and access including: acquisitions, cataloging and processing of incoming material in any format - from rare books and papyrus fragments to artifacts and computer media. We also manage all digitization projects and descriptive metadata for special collections materials in conjunction with subject specialists and the digital library group.
The departments' Born-Digital Program collaborates with Digital Libraries Systems and Services as well as the libraries' Metadata Development Unit. The department of Special Collections also directs the ePADD Project - developing software to acquire, process and deliver email archives in our collections. A new release of ePADD software (Version 5.0) came out in winter 2018. -
Claudia Engel
Academic Technology Specialist, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Technology Specialist and Lecturer in Anthroplogy
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Liisi Esse
Librarian 4, Humanities Resource Group
Current Role at StanfordAs Associate Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies, I have as my main responsibility to build Stanford's collection of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian material in all formats (books, periodicals, manuscripts, electronic sources etc.). My wider goal is to enhance the Baltic studies overall by advising scholars and students interested in the matter, engaging in collaborative projects with other institutions and organizing events and exhibits at Stanford.
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Kioumars Ghereghlou
Curator for Middle East Collections, Humanities Resource Group
Current Role at StanfordAs the Curator for Middle East collections, I oversee the planning, development, processing, acquisition, management, and public service of collections on all aspects of Middle East Studies. My main task is collecting materials that support the research and teaching needs of scholars working on Iran, Turkey, and all Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa. I am responsible for selecting and acquiring a wide range of resources, including traditional scholarly publications (print and digital), special collections and archival materials, and materials published via emerging forms of scholarly communication. I provide a range of public services to Middle Eastern Studies communities at Stanford, including advanced reference and instruction. I promote the use of Stanford University Libraries' collections and resources through in-person and online outreach activities and collaborate with other curators and selectors in support of interdisciplinary collections and services.
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Raymond Heigemeir
Public Services Librarian, Music Library
Current Role at StanfordI oversee all aspects of public service for Music including reference, circulation, instruction, and facilities. I assist patrons in finding and using music research resources, provide tours, mount exhibits, and facilitate digitization requests. I serve as subject liaison to the Department of Special Collections, and am the primary blogger on music topics for the Stanford Libraries blog. I serve as webmaster for the Music Library site and assist in developing the Stanford Libraries' web presence through work with the Online Experience Group.
Member, Music Library Association. Previous library experience encompasses academic law and commercial advertising. Additional professional training includes the Western Archives Institute, UC Berkeley; and Rare Book School, University of Virginia. -
James R. Jacobs
Librarian 4, Social Sciences Resource Group
Current Role at StanfordFederal government information librarian and FDLP coordinator. James' bio and list of publications and presentations can be found at https://freegovinfo.info/jrjacobs
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Kris Kasianovitz
Librarian 4, Social Sciences Resource Group
Current Role at StanfordGovernment Information Librarian for State, Local and International Documents
Stanford Designated Representative to ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Manager of Stanford University Membership to APDU (the Association of Public Data Users) https://www.apdu.org/
Staff Co-chair for StanfordVotes - non-partisan, university-wide, student-run organization to increase voter turnout among Stanford students https://www.stanfordvotes.org/ -
Phyllis Kayten
Librarian 2, Learning and Outreach
Current Role at StanfordReference Librarian, Information Center, Green Library
