Lisa Spiro, Ph.D., Director, Digital Media Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

Are you considering implementing an archival content management system (CMS) such as Archon or Archivists' Toolkit?  Are you overwhelmed by the process of selecting the right tool for your institution?  This web seminar, which is based on the recent report about archival management Software issued by the Council on Library and Information Resources (http://clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro2009.html), will take you through the process of evaluating and selecting a content management system. 
 
The seminar will address:

This seminar will include concrete examples drawn from both open source and commercial systems.
 
Who should attend?
Everyone who is participating in the decision on their institution's archival content management system; and, anyone anticipating having to make this decision.
 
About our presenter:
Lisa Spiro directs Rice University's Digital Media Center, where she helps to plan and manage digital projects, studies the impact of information technology on higher education, and oversees a media production lab. She was the PI for the Travelers in the Middle East Archive, sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, and created the Learning Science and Technology Repository, funded by Microsoft Research.
 
She also founded the Digital Research Tools wiki, http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/ A Frye Leadership Institute fellow, Lisa serves on the program committee for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and is the editor of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin. She has published or presented on a range of topics, including humanities scholars' use of digital collections, encoding documents in EAD and TEI, digital storytelling, building multimedia digital archives, and tracking innovations in educational technology.  She authored a report on Archival Management Software (http://clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro2009.html) for CLIR (Council on Library and Information Resources) and is working with her colleague Geneva Henry on a new study for CLIR focused on the feasibility of a mostly-digital research library.
 
Lisa received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, where she worked as the managing editor of Postmodern Culture and a project assistant at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center. Currently she is re-mixing her dissertation on bachelorhood in nineteenth century America as a work of digital scholarship, relying on electronic resources for her research, exploring text analysis and visualization tools, and experimenting with videos and blogging as a means of scholarly publishing. Lisa's blog, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, is at http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/