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San Jose

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Computer / Information Networks
  • Preservation of Collections

Research Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Administration and Management
  • Computer / Information Networks
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Funding
  • Information Architecture
  • Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
  • Information Systems and Technologies
  • Information Technology Management
  • Information and Society / Culture
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Preservation of Collections
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Dr. Katherine E. Skinner

Lecturer

Dr. Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute link goes to non-SJSU web site, a not-for-profit educational organization she helped to found in 2006 to act as a catalyst for collaborative approaches to the production, dissemination, and preservation of scholarship and research data. She serves as the Program Manager for the MetaArchive Cooperative link goes to non-SJSU web site, a distributed digital preservation solution for cultural memory organizations. She is the PI on projects for the Library of Congress's National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) that study sustainability and interoperability issues in the context of the MetaArchive Cooperative's digital preservation activities.

Dr. Skinner was previously the digital projects librarian at Emory University, where she served as co-PI on numerous projects in digital scholarship, access, and preservation arenas. Skinner received her Ph.D. from Emory University and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Courses Taught

Education

  • PhD (American Studies) Emory University (2005)
  • BA (Psychology) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Executive Director: Educopia Institute (2009-)
  • Director, Digital Programs: Emory University (2005-2009)
  • Scholarly Communications Analyst: Emory University (2000-2005)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Walters, T.O. and K. Skinner (2010). Economics, Sustainability, and the Cooperative Model in Digital Preservation. Library High Tech, 28(2).
  • A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (2010). Skinner, K. and M. Schultz, Eds. (Atlanta, GA: Educopia Institute).
  • Skinner, K. and M. Halbert (2009). The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Collaborative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation. Library Trends 57(3) pp 372-392.
  • Halbert, M., McMillan, G., and K. Skinner (2009). Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks. Archiving 2009 Proceedings pp. 86-91.
  • Skinner, K. and M. Halbert (2009). MetaArchive: A Cooperative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation. Against the Grain 21(1) pp. 36-42.
  • Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (2008). Skinner, K. and M. Halbert, Eds. (Atlanta, GA: Emory University Digital Publications).
  • Toton, S. and K. Skinner (2006). A Space of Our Own: Bridging New Media and Traditional Scholarship with Southern Spaces in the Classroom. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 2(3).
  • K. Skinner (2006). Born Again: Resurrecting the Anthology of American Folk Music. Popular Music 25(1). pp 57-75.
  • K. Skinner (2003). The Music of Social Change: Using OAI-PMH in the Creation of a Digital Memory Site. Proceedings, Workshop on Applications of Metadata Harvesting in Scholarly Portals: Findings from the MetaScholar Projects. Emory University.

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