Education
Persistence of Memory
Faculty Biographies
Paul Conway, University of Michigan
Paul Conway, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, has extensive teaching experience in the preservation and archives fields and has made major contributions over the past 30 years to the literature on archival users and use, preservation management, and digital imaging technologies. His research interests include the challenges of representing and interpreting visual and textual resources in digital form, ethics and information technology, and incentive systems for digital preservation, particularly in the context of emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. He has held leadership positions at the National Archives and Records Administration, the Society of American Archivists, Yale University, and Duke University. In 2005, Paul received the American Library Association's Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award for his contributions to the preservation field. He is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.
Bernard Reilly, Center for Research Libraries
Bernard F. Reilly is President of the Center for Research Libraries, a partnership of 245 U.S. and Canadian universities, colleges and independent research libraries. Reilly was principal investigator for two digital preservation projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: the Political Communications Web Archiving Investigation (2002-2004) and the Auditing and Certification of Digital Archives project.
Reilly was previously Director of Research and Access at the Chicago History Museum (1997-2001), where he directed digitization and dissemination of the CHM library, archives, and architecture, audio, television, and pictorial collections. Reilly was Head of the Curatorial Section in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (1987-1997), which provided curatorial and policy support to the early development of the National Digital Library.
Robin L. Dale, University of California, Santa Cruz
Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife Center
Andy Kolovos is the Archivist and a staff Folklorist at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont. He earned a BA in Literature from Bennington College, and holds an MA in Folklore and an MLS, both from Indiana University. He is currently engaged in an ongoing struggle to complete his dissertation toward a PhD in Folklore, also from Indiana. His professional interests focus on the preservation of ethnographic records—in particular, audio recordings—and on audio field recording. As Vermont Folklife Center Archivist, Andy has instituted a plan of digital audio preservation and management, and works extensively with digital audio editing tools. He presents and consults on ethnographic archives, audio preservation, and field audio recording nationwide.
Richard Rinehart, University of California,
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Richard Rinehart is a digital media artist and Digital Art Curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. He is Associate Director for Public Programs of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Richard has taught digital media studio and theory in the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, the Department of Art Practice, and has also been visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and JFK University. Richard manages research projects in the area of digital culture, including the NEA-funded project “Archiving the Avant Garde,” a national consortium of museums and artists distilling the essence of digital art in order to document and preserve it. Rinehart's papers, projects, and more can be found at www.coyoteyip.com.
Ken Withers, The Sedona Conference®
Ken Withers, Director of Judicial Education and Content, The Sedona Conference®, http://www.thesedonaconference.org combines his background as a commercial litigator, law librarian, information technologist, and teacher to develop educational programs for state and federal judges in the areas of civil procedure, evidence, and First Amendment law. He is a recognized national authority on electronic discovery, having been quoted in Newsweek and on National Public Radio, as well as published more than a dozen law reviews and legal periodicals. He hosts “Voices From the Desert, “ a series of Webcast panel discussions with leading jurists and practitioners on issues of law and technology, and lectures extensively at judicial conferences sponsored by state and federal courts. Prior to joining The Sedona Conference®, a non-profit, non-partisan legal think tank headquartered in Arizona, Ken was a Senior Education Attorney at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC and Director of Education at the Social Law Library in Boston, MA. He holds his B.A. in Journalism from Northeastern University, his J.D. from Northwestern University, and his M. Lib. Sci. from Simmons College. He was the recipient of the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award for best post-graduate essay in law and technology given by the British-Irish Legal Education Technology Association in 1999 and the Best Use of Technology Award given by the American Association of Law Librarians in 1998. His recent publications include “Ephemeral Data and the Duty to Preserve Discoverable Electronically Stored Information, 37 U. Balt. L. Rev. 349 (2008); “The Rule 26 Conference On Electronic Discovery,” with Hon. Shira Scheindlin (an instructional DVD produced by Management of Electronic Records, May 2006); “Two Tiers and a Safe Harbor: Federal Rulemakers Grapple with Electronic Discovery,” The Federal Lawyer (September 2004); and “They've Moved the Two Tiers and Filled in the Safe Harbor,” The Federal Lawyer (November 2005).
Sarah Stauderman is the Preservation Manager of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, where she oversees the care of paper, book, photograph, moving image, and recorded sound materials. Her major research interest has been in the area of magnetic media deterioration and preservation management. She has a Masters degree from the art conservation program at Buffalo State College specializing in paper conservation, and was a post-graduate fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education. She is the author of the Web site “Video Format Identification Guide" and has published a paper on the many different types of audio signal carriers for the Association of Research Libraries. She lectures frequently on the care of videotapes.
Sarah lives in Washington DC with her husband, a photograph conservator, and their almost 4-year-old son.
Katherine Skinner, Emory University
Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute, an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to improving scholarly communication in socially responsible ways. She is also Digital Projects Librarian for the Emory University Libraries, providing leadership and strategic direction for the library's digital initiatives that are supported through sponsored funding. Katherine is a Co-Principal Investigator on the SouthComb Cyberinfrastructure for Scholars Project, a founder and editorial board member of the journal Southern Spaces and co-director of the MetaArchive Cooperative, a distributed digital preservation service organization supported by the Library of Congress and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She recently published an edited volume (co-edited with Martin Halbert) titled Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (2008). Katherine also serves on the Aquifer Services Working Group and the NDIIPP Sustainability Committee, and is on the faculty for the Northeast Document Conservation Center's Stewardship of Digital Assets workshop series.
Shelby Sanett , Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science 
Shelby Sanett is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in New York, where she teaches the Conservation and Preservation course in the School
of Information and Library Science. She also works
at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, MD as a Management and Program Analyst Team Leader in the Office of Space and Security Management.
Prior to joining NARA, Shelby was the Imaging and Preservation Service (IPS) Manager at Amigos Library Services in Dallas, Texas. IPS is a nonprofit, grant-funded service providing preservation information, disaster planning and recovery assistance, and preservation-related training to librarians and archivists in the Southwestern U.S., primarily Arizona, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. IPS serves as an advocate for preservation regionally and nationally.
While at Amigos and NARA, Shelby was an investigator in the preservation section of the International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) Project, an international collaborative project to develop strategies and processes for the long-term preservation of authentic electronic records. This experience led to her research interest in examining issues related to the programmatic aspects of digital preservation programs, primarily costs, staffing and policy.
Shelby holds a PhD from the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia, an MLIS degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Simon Tanner, King's College London
Simon Tanner is the Director of King's Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. KDCS provides research and consulting services specializing in the information and digital domain for the cultural, heritage and information sectors. Simon is also co-Director of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project with two South African partner institutions.
Simon is an independent member of the UK Legal Deposit Advisory Panel and Chair of its Web Archiving sub-committee. He is also a member of the JISC Digitisation Advisory Group. Simon authored the book, Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age, with Dr Marilyn Deegan and they co-edited the book, Digital Preservation. He has just returned from Israel, leading the pilot digital imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
David Liroff, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
David B. Liroff joined The Corporation for Public Broadcasting in April, 2007 after having served as vice president and chief technology officer at the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had worked since 1979. In April, 2008, he was named CPB’s Senior Vice President, Senior Advisor for New Media Strategy and System Relations. While at WGBH, Dr. Liroff had served on the boards of the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), American Public Television (APT), Public Interactive (PI), and the Northeast Document Conservation Center. He also served on the Public Broadcasting Service Technology and Distribution Committee and was a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.
Liroff holds a Ph.D. in radio, TV and film from Northwestern University, a master's in speech and theater from Brooklyn College/City University of New York, and a bachelor's in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.