October 23, 2009
BCR Appoints Project Coordinator for NEH Digital Preservation Grant
Holly South has joined the staff at BCR, filling the position of project coordinator for an NEH-funded project, Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives. South will be working directly with BCR's Digital and Preservation Services director, Liz Bishoff, who is the Principal Investigator, as well as project faculty and staff from BCR, Lyrasis and OCLC Digital Programs.
As project coordinator for the Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives project, South will be responsible for establishing an appropriate project framework to implement the two-year NEH grant; creating and executing the workshop promotional program; coordinating monthly post-workshop activities; arranging for workshop facilities and appropriate local arrangements; and assisting with project evaluations.
In early 2009, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $218,154 to BCR to support workshops on digital preservation developed specifically for leaders of collaborative digitization programs. The workshops are designed to help digital collaboratives and their members develop the capacity for assuming responsibility for long-term accessibility of digital collections under their stewardship.
South has several years of reference and collection development experience in libraries and archives, including her most recent position at the Texas Legislative Reference Library. Prior to becoming a librarian, she worked in content production and project management at Microsoft. South earned her MSI with a focus on Archives & Records Management at the University of Michigan and her BA from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
