Tyler Walters

Full Curriculum Vitae

Responsibilities and Services

• Sustains leadership, vision, and technology expertise for scholarly communication and digital services, library collections and acquisitions management, digital library development, systems, and archives and records units. Responsible for a division of about 50 FTE staff.
• Creates positive, team-oriented environment that supports staff learning to foster new skills and innovative information services.
• Leads strategic planning initiatives and collections management and technology infrastructures.
• Initiates and manages activities to develop, implement, and market new digital services including repository services, ePublishing, conference proceeding services, imaging, and digitally capturing events (EPAGE services and the SMARTech repository)
• Directs the licensing, acquisition, and technology activities related to electronic resources, resulting in 39,000 eJournals, 240 databases, and over 29,000 eBooks made available to users
• Leads the scholarly communications outreach program, in addition to investigating scholarly systems integration with digital learning environments
• Oversees integrated systems and web sites for all library functions and services, including over 60 million user actions on the library web site annually
• Supervises the implementation of standards, policies, and operations for creating metadata for scholarly resources
• Provides leadership and lends oversight to campus entities implementing academic services such as GT’s virtual collaboration and learning environment (T-Square), the GT campus portal, Buzzport, and course capture capabilities with DLPE (Tegrity)
• Collaborates extensively with the GT Office of Information Technology, coordinates national and state-level technology and scholarly content management initiatives.

Research Interests/Selected Publications

Published Articles / Papers:

Meyer, Richard W. and Tyler O. Walters, “Sowing an Old Field with a New Crop: Collaborative Services of Libraries and Other Campus Units,” in Convergence and Collaboration of Campus Information Services. (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited) Peter Hernon and Ronald Powell, editors. Publication in 2008

“Digital Sustainability: Weaving a Tapestry of Interdependency to Advance Digital Programs,” in Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries. (Atlanta: Emory University) Martin Halbert, editor. Publication in 2008

De Stefano, Paula and Tyler O. Walters, “A Natural Collaboration: Preservation for Archival Collections in ARL Libraries,” Library Trends: special issue: Recent Trends in Cultural Heritage Preservation. 56 (Summer 2007): 230-258

Robert H. McDonald and Tyler O. Walters, “Sustainability Models for Digital Preservation Federations,” in Proceedings of DigCCurr 2007: An International Symposium in Digital Curation (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 (2007)

“Reinventing the Library: How Repositories Are Causing Librarians to Rethink Their Professional Roles,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 7 (April 2007): 213-225

“Strategies and Frameworks for Institutional Repositories and the New Support Infrastructure for Scholarly Communications,” D-Lib Magazine 9 (October 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.: National Science Foundation and Association of Research Libraries), 2006. Pp. 153-154

Selected Conference Presentations:

“Digital Libraries Sustainability: From Regional to International Perspectives,” Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access meeting, Center for Research Libraries (invited speaker), to be presented, May 2008

“The Other Side of the Library Coin: Georgia Tech’s Experience in Broadcasting Scholarly Information,” SOLINET Annual Meeting, to be presented May 2008

“Transforming Into Effective Electronic Resource Management Organizations,” Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, March 2008

“New Cooperative Strategies for Distributed Digital Preservation: MetaArchive and Educopia,” Coalition of Networked Information, December 2007

“University Perspectives on Governance: MetaArchive Cooperative and DSpace Foundation,” Global Digital Format Registry Governance Workshop, hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration, (invited participant and speaker), November 2007

“A Discussion on Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation User Values,” EDUCAUSE, October 2007

“Future Directions for Digital Repositories,” Ohio State University (invited speaker), August 2007

“To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Digital Data Sets in Science and Engineering: A Report to the National Science Foundation from the ARL Workshop on New Collaborative Relationships − The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe,” DigCCurr 2007: an International Symposium on Digital Curation, April 2007

“E-Journal Archiving: Status and Trends,” Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, February 2007

“Digital Sustainability: Organizational and Business Models,” Library of Congress / National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program meeting, January 2007

“A Practical, Working and Replicable Approach to Digital Preservation,” Coalition of Networked Information, December 2006

“Organizational Challenges and Approaches to Sustaining Distributed Digital Preservation Networks,” International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, Cornell University, October 2006

“Institutional Repositories and the Need for “Value-added” Services: Current Research and Lessons Learned,” Coalition of Networked Information, April 2006 (with Susan Gibbons)

“Who Moved My e-Journal? Electronic Resources and Organizational Change,” Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, March 2006

“New Paradigms for Knowledge Sharing in the Scholarly World,” (1/2 Day Presentation and Workshop). Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries, March 2006

“The MetaArchive Collaborative Digital Preservation Network: A Status Report,” EDUCAUSE, October 2005

“Preserving Information Long-Term: Digital Archiving,” NSF National Conference on Digital Government Research, May 2005

Major Grant Activities:

Institute of Museum and Library Services. “The Galileo Knowledge Repository.” Tyler Walters, Lead Principal Investigator, with Univ. of Georgia, Medical Coll. of Georgia, Georgia State Univ., Georgia Southern Univ., Valdosta State Univ., North Georgia College and State Univ., Albany State Univ., and Coastal Georgia Community College. $830,000. Submitted, February 1, 2008

National Archives and Records Administration (NHPRC). “MetaArchive: A Sustainable Digital Preservation Service to State and Local Institutions.” Tyler Walters, Business Services Project Director (and proposal co-author), with Emory University. $325,000 (2008-2010)

Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. “Phase Two: MetaArchive Consortium − A Distributed Digital Preservation Network.” Tyler Walters, Co-Principal Investigator, with Auburn University, Emory University, Florida State University, University of Louisville, and Virginia Tech. $562,000 (2007-2009)

Lewis H. Beck Educational Foundation: “Digital Video and Imaging Technology in Support of Georgia Tech Scholarly Communications and Digital Programs.” Richard Meyer, Tyler Walters, and Catherine Jannik. Award: $56,300 (2006)

Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure Program. MetaArchive Consortium: A Preservation Network for Critical At-Risk Digital Content.” Tyler Walters, Co-Principal Investigator (with Auburn, Emory, FSU, LOCKSS/Stanford, Louisville, VA Tech) $654,574. (2004-2007).

Recent Teaching and Curriculum Design Activities:

University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science. Digital Information Management graduate certificate program. (proposed consultant and instructor, upcoming)

Valdosta State University, Master of Library and Information Science program. Guest Lecturer, 2008-present

SOLINET
Online workshop series developer and instructor, 2005-present:
“Trends in Technology”
“Open Access and Digital Repositories” 
“Developments in Digital Preservation”

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA) Office of Accreditation
  • External Review Panel Member for San Jose State University (2007)
  • External Review Panel Member for UCLA (2004)
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
  • Research Committee, 2006-2009
• Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)
  • LOCKSS ETDs project team member, 2005-2007
• Coalition of Networked Information (CNI)
  • Representative, Georgia Tech Library and Information Center
• Educopia Institute
  • Founding Board Member and Treasurer, 2006-present
    • (Addresses sustaining educational cyberinfrastructure advancement through projects and partnerships. Initial funding provided by the Library of Congress NDIIP Program)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
  • Panelist, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, 2008
• International Conference on Open Repositories
  • Chair, Host Committee, 2009 Atlanta Conference
  • Chair, DSpace Program, 2007 San Antonio Conference
• Library of Congress
  • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
    • Sustainability for Digital Preservation Strategic Working Group, 2006-present
• National Science Foundation
  • Sustainability Committee, National Science Digital Library, 2006-present
    
  • Panel Review Member, National Science Digital Library, 2004

Service to University System of Georgia:

• GALILEO Knowledge Repository Steering Committee, 2007-present
• GOLD/GALILEO Advisory Committee (elected), 2004-2007
• Regents’ Academic Committee on Libraries
  • WebCT / Library Resource Integration Working Group, 2003-2004

Major Service to Georgia Tech:

• Educational Technology Governing Board, 2007-present
• GT Journal of Undergraduate Research Organizing Committee, 2006-2007
• Provost’s Task Force on Defining and Supporting Interdisciplinarity, 2007
  • Internal Research Program Subgroup
• Director of Educational Technology Search Committee, 2006-2007
• Protection of Campus Information Work Group, 2006
• Virtual Learning Strategy Group, 2006
• Academic Technologies Advisory Committee, 2004-present
• Tegrity Course Capture Software Pilot Team, 2004--present
• Buzzport (GT Campus Portal) Steering Committee, 2002-present

Education

Master of Arts in Library and Information Science :: 1996
University of Arizona

Master of Arts in Archival Management :: 1988
North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Arts in History :: 1985
Northern Illinois University