Digital Library Maturation: The Evolution of Digital Collections Management Programs at National Libraries

Introduction

This panel will present and discuss the development of digital collections management programs at a series of national libraries. Panelists will each give brief overviews of the development of their institutions programs, policies, and technical infrastructure and share out about upcoming and ongoing major initiatives in these areas.

Panelists

Trevor Owens

Head of Digital Content Management at the U.S. Library of Congress 

Dr. Trevor Owens serves as the first Head of Digital Content Management at the U.S. Library of Congress. In addition, he teaches graduate seminars in digital history for American University’s History Department and graduate seminars and digital preservation for the University of Maryland’s College of Information, where he is also a Research Affiliate with the Center for Archival Futures.

Andrea Goethals

Programme Director of the Preservation Research & Consultancy team at the National Library of New Zealand.

Andrea Goethals is the Programme Director of the Preservation Research & Consultancy team at the National Library of New Zealand. She manages a talented team of digital preservation specialists and software developers, who look after the National Library’s digital collections.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven   

Head of the Digital Preservation department at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) 

Jeffrey van der Hoeven, MSc. is head of the Digital Preservation department at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). In this role he is responsible for defining the policies, strategies and organizational implementation of digital preservation at the library, with the goal to keep the digital collections accessible to current users and generations to come.

Lisandro Pablo Olivares

Software engineer working for the coordination of innovation and digital strategy at the Biblioteca Nacional de México

MSc. Lisandro Pablo Olivares is a software engineer working for the coordination of innovation and digital strategy at the Biblioteca Nacional de México and is in charge of implementing and promoting digital preservation processes on the digital collections the library manages.

Paul Wheatley

Head of Research and Practice Digital Preservation Coalition

Paul Wheatley is the Head of Research and Practice Digital Preservation Coalition

Michael Day

Digital Preservation Research Lead at the British Library

Michael Day is Digital Preservation Research Lead at the British Library.