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Teaching & Professional Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Administration and Management
• Archives and Records Centers
• Computer / Information Networks
• Copyright / Intellectual Property
• Digital / Virtual Libraries
• Distance Education in LIS
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Architecture
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Information Policy
• Information Systems and Technologies
• Information Technology Management
• Knowledge / IR Management
• Political Economy of Information
• Preservation of Collections
• Records Management
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Special and Corporate Libraries
• Strategic Planning / Marketing / Lobbying

Research Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Archives and Records Centers
• Computer / Information Networks
• Digital / Virtual Libraries
• Distance Education in LIS
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Architecture
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Policy
• Information Systems and Technologies
• Information Technology Management
• Knowledge / IR Management
• Political Economy of Information
• Preservation of Collections
• Records Management
• Scholarly and Scientific Communication
• Special and Corporate Libraries
• Strategic Planning / Marketing / Lobbying

Tyler O. Walters

Lecturer

Tyler Walters teaches courses at SJSU in Preservation Management and Digitization and Digital Preservation. Since 2002, he is the Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center. He provides leadership and expertise in library collections management, new scholarly communication services, digital library and archives programs, information technology management, and archives and records programs.

Among his involvements are with the LC / NDIIP program, the MetaArchive Cooperative (digital preservation service), the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR) interim governing board, the Open Repositories Steering Committee, the Sun PASIG, the University of Arizona Digital Information Management (DigIn) graduate certificate program advisory board, the National Science Foundation / Office of Cyberinfrastructure on issues relating to libraries and data curation, and is a regular grant panelist for IMLS and on review teams for library and information science schools. He is also a past chair of the SAA Preservation Section, a past co-chair of the SAA Committee on Education and Professional Development, and a graduate of the NEH-funded SAA Preservation Management Training Program.

Courses Taught

• > [259] Preservation Management
• > [284] Seminar in Archives & Records Management

Education

• MALIS University of Arizona (1996)
• MA (Archival Management) North Carolina State University (1988)
• BA (History) Northern Illinois University (1985)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology, Library and Information Center (2002-)
• Director, William R. Haselton Library and Knowledge Center, Institute of Paper Science and Technology (1998-2002)
• Head, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library (1996-1998)
• University Archivist, Iowa State University Library (1992-1996)
• Assistant University Archivist, Northwestern University Library, (1988-1992)
• Assistant to Iconographic Archivist / Archives Reference Room Assistant, North Carolina State Archives (1987-1988)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.
• Walters, T. O. & McDonald, R. H. (2008). Creating trust relationships for digital preservation. In Proceedings of iPRES 2008, the International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects. 2008.
• Meyer, R. W. & Walters T. O. (2008) Sowing an old field with a new crop: Collaborative services of libraries and other campus units. In Peter Hernon & Ronald Powell (Eds.) Convergence and Collaboration of Campus Information Services. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
• Walters, T. O. (2008). Digital sustainability: Weaving a tapestry of interdependency to advance digital programs. In Martin Halbert & Katherine Skinner (Eds). Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries. Atlanta: Emory University.
• De Stefano, P. & Walters, T. O. (2007, Summer). A natural collaboration: Preservation for archival collections in ARL libraries. Library Trends: special issue: Recent Trends in Cultural Heritage Preservation. 56, 230-258
• McDonald, R. H. & Walters, T. O. (2007). Sustainability models for digital preservation federations. In Proceedings of DigCCurr 2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation.
• Walters, T. O. (2007). The new academic library - building institutional repositories to support changing scholarly and research processes. In Sailing into the Future – Charting our Destiny: Proceedings of the ACRL 13th National Conference.
• Walters, T. O. (2007, April). Reinventing the library: How repositories are causing librarians to rethink their professional roles. portal: Libraries and the Academy 7, 213-225
• Walters, T. O. (2006, October). Strategies and frameworks for institutional repositories and the new support infrastructure for scholarly communications. D-Lib Magazine, 9.
• Walters, T. O. (2006) Top three issues in the long-term preservation, management, and curation of scientific data in digital form. In To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Digital Datasets in Science and Engineering. Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries. pp. 153-154
• Thomas, C. F., McDonald, R. H., Smith, A. D. & Walters, T. O. (2005, May). "The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories: A Common Destination with Different Paths". New Review of Information Networking 11, 65-82

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