Susan Wells Parham

Responsibilities and Services

• Coordinates selected digital initiatives projects regarding the overall management (production, capture, access, and preservation) of the digital intellectual output of Georgia Tech and the digital conversion of library and archival collections.
• Carries out technical project management for initiatives such as ETDs, student e-portfolios, and other digital repositories and archives projects such as learning objects, digitally captured courses, etc.
• Maintains awareness and knowledge of new metadata practices, and integrates the appropriate metadata schemes into library practices for digital object management.

Selected Publications

The HLKC Information Gateway: The Intranet as Portal to Pulp & Paper Studies , Special Libraries Association Brown Bag, January 2000.

IPST Digital Collections, Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education Meeting, October 2001.

Georgia Tech Digital Initiatives , Special Libraries Association Brown Bag, February 22, 2005 .

Institutional Repositories , with Tim Daniels and Toby Graham, GIL Users Group Meeting, May 19, 2005.

Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Information Science & Technology
  • Digital Libraries
  • Science and Technical Information

• American Library Association
  • Library and Information Technology
  • Association of College & Research Libraries

Education

Master of Science in Library and Information Science :: 1999
University of Illinois

Bachelor of Arts in English :: 1991
University of Virginia