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City: Encino, CA

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Administration and Management
  • Copyright / Intellectual Property
  • Database and Other Retrieval Systems
  • Electronic Documents
  • Graphic Materials: Maps / Art / etc.
  • Information Policy
  • Information Technology Management
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Online Catalog Retrieval Systems
  • Organization of Information
  • Preservation of Collections
  • Records Management
  • Special and Corporate Libraries

Research Interests

  • Archival Collections
  • Archives and Records Centers
  • Books / Printing / Publishing Industry
  • Copyright / Intellectual Property
  • Electronic Documents
  • Graphic Materials: Maps / Art / etc.
  • Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
  • Information Policy
  • Information Technology Management
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Preservation of Collections
  • Records Management
  • Special and Corporate Libraries
  • Institutional repositories
  • File format repositories

Victoria McCargar

Lecturer

Victoria McCargar is an archivist, special collections librarian and consultant in digital asset management and preservation. She has worked in the area of digital preservation for more than 15 years and is currently working with a team at the Library of Congress and University of Missouri's Reynolds Journalism Institute on developing a national digital newspaper repository.

Consulting clients include the Associated Press, Center for Research Libraries, numerous newspapers and National Public Radio.

In digital preservation, she was a member of the InterPARES project and PREMIS metadata committee. In analog preservation, she serves as archivist and special collections librarian at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. A veteran journalist with 28 years at the Los Angeles Times, McCargar stays active in the News Division of the Special Libraries Association.

Courses Taught

Education

  • MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles (2003)
  • MA, Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia. School of Journalism
  • BA, English Literature, University of California, San Diego

Academic & Professional Experience

  • College archivist and Special Collections librarian, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles (2008-)
  • Independent Consultant, Digital Asset Management, Digital Archives and Preservation (2005-)
  • Adjunct Professor, UCLA Department of Information Studies (2003-2005, 2009)
  • Senior Editor and DAM Technologist, Los Angeles Times (1996-2005)
  • Senior Editor for Graphics and Design, Los Angeles Times (1991-2000)
  • Assistant Business Editor, Los Angeles Times (1979-1991)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • McCargar, V., Nadal, J., Snyder, H., Vanek, A. & Zarndt,F. (2011). Newspapers, data formats and acronym stew: Preservation and distribution of born-digital newspapers using METS/ALTO, NITF and PDF-A. In H. Walravens (Ed.), Newspapers: Legal deposit and research in the Digital Era, (115-123). Berlin: International Federation of Library Associations.
  • McCargar, V. (2008-2009, Winter). Archiving the Daily Miracle: Preservation in the Digital Newsroom. Focus 28(2), 7.
  • McCargar, V. (2007). Kiss Your Assets Goodbye: Best Practices and Digital Archiving in the Publishing Industry. The Seybold Report 7(16), 5-7.
  • McCargar, V. (2006). Lexis-Nexis and NewsBank archiving activities. Focus 26(1), 5.
  • McCargar, V., & Mikhalevitch, A. (2006). Heart of darkness: A foray into aging JPEGs. The Seybold Report, 5(22), 9-12.

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