Faculty

Liz Bishoff
Priscilla Caplan
Thomas F.R. Clareson
Robin L. Dale
Katherine Skinner

Liz Bishoff is the president of the Bishoff Group, LLC. Previously she was the director of Digital & Preservation Services of BCR; special assistant to the Dean of Libraries and head of the Office of Sponsored Programs, University of Colorado, Boulder; vice president for Digital Collection Services at OCLC; and former executive director of the Colorado Digitization Program. Bishoff has worked with libraries and museums in several states including Alabama, Kansas, South and North Carolina, Missouri, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York and Tennessee, on various aspects of their collaborative digitization initiatives. She led  the development of collaborative best practices in metadata; including the Western States Metadata Dublin Core Best Practices. Bishoff is a faculty member for NEDCC's School for Scanning, Persistence of Memory and Stewardship of Digital Assets.

Bishoff has been a member of the American Library Association's Council, the ALA Board and is a past treasurer of the American Library Association. 

Priscilla Caplan is assistant director for Digital Library Services at the Florida Center for Library Automation, where she oversees the Florida Digital Archive, a preservation repository for the use of the 11 state universities of Florida. She has been involved with digital preservation for nearly 10 years and has published several articles on the subject, including “The Florida Digital Archive and DAITSS: A Working Preservation Repository Based on Format Migration” (International Journal on Digital Libraries, March 2007) and “Ten Years After” (Library Hi Tech 25, no. 4, 2007). With Rebecca Guenther, she co-chaired the RLG-OCLC working group that produced the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, and she currently serves as a member of the PREMIS Editorial Committee.  

Thomas F.R. Clareson is senior consultant at LYRASIS. Clareson joined PALINET (which became LYRASIS in 2009 when PALINET and SOLINET merged to form a new organization) in October 2005. Clareson led PALINET’s digital collections creation and management services, preservation services and consulting activities, and was responsible for establishing new services and funding sources, grant writing, and outreach to the museum and historical society communities. In his new capacity for LYRASIS, Clareson consults nationally and internationally on preservation, digitization, special collections/archives, remote storage, funding and advocacy issues. 

With nearly 20 years experience in preservation and digitization services, Tom was previously global product manager at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.,; he also served in various capacities at Amigos Library Services, Inc. Tom holds an MLS from Kent State University, an MA from Ohio State University, and a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University. Formerly a representative from the Society of American Archivists to the Joint Committee on Archives, Libraries and Museums, he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Heritage Preservation.

Throughout his career, Clareson has worked with all types and sizes of academic and public libraries, archives, museums and various other cultural heritage institutions. He has successfully conducted more than 200 site surveys covering preservation, digitization and special collections-related issues.

Robin L. Dale is the director of Digital Services for LYRASIS. In that position, she develops LYRASIS’ organizational strategy for digital programs, identifies and implements digital services initiatives and create alliances and partnerships with key organizations in the digital arena. Previously, she was the associate university librarian for Collections and Library Information Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she coordinated UCSC’s participation in mass digitization projects, as well as worked with her staff to formulate the digitization and digital collection development of local, unique collections such as the Grateful Dead Archive. Prior to UCSC, she was a long-time program manager at RLG, managing collaborative programmatic activities related to digital preservation and digitization and served as the project director of the CRL Auditing and Certification of Digital Archives project. 

Since 1997, her work has focused on standards and best practice-building activities related to digital preservation, digitization, preservation metadata and data curation, in addition to serving as a associate editor of RLG DigiNews. She co-chaired the RLG-NARA task force which produced the 2007 report, Trusted Repositories, Audit and Certification: Criteria & Checklist (TRAC).

Katherine Skinner, Ph.D is the executive director of the Educopia Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 2006 to act as a catalyst for collaborative approaches to the production and preservation of scholarship. She also serves as the program manager for the MetaArchive Cooperative, a distributed digital preservation solution for cultural memory organizations. She was previously the digital projects librarian at Emory University, where she served as co-Principal Investigator on numerous projects in the digital scholarship, access and preservation arenas. 

Skinner received her Ph.D. from Emory University and is the author of several articles, including "The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Collaborative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation," (Library Trends) and editor of two books, Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (Emory University: 2008) and The Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (forthcoming 2009). Skinner has been a faculty member of the NEH-funded NEDCC Stewardship of Digital Assets workshops and the NEDCC Persistence of Memory workshop.