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Liz Milewicz
Liz Milewicz

Liz Milewicz is Project Manager for The Expanded Online Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (or Voyages)Project at the Emory University Libraries. She has also worked on DLF Aquifer (Services and Metadata Working Groups), The Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation, and Music of Social Change.

[edit] Background

Liz is currently working on a PhD at Emory University. Her work is an interdisciplinary study of changes to academic libraries & academic library culture in the Information Age). She has an MLS from the University of Alabama and has worked as Reference, Interlibrary Loan, and Serials Librarian, manuscript editor of Graduate School theses and dissertations and of faculty pre-print research articles, Freshman Composition instructor for 2-year and 4-year colleges, and research assistant for a variety of faculty in Education, English, Library Science, and Linguistic.

[edit] Interests

Liz is interested in how new media and technologies affect academic research and writing practices, as well as the role of physical and virtual places in scholarly social networks, research, and collaboration.

[edit] Publications

  • Milewicz, E. J. (in publication). Origin and development of the Information Commons in academic libraries. In M. Halbert and C. Forrest (eds.) A Field Guide to the InfoCommons. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
  • Shreeves, S., Riley, J., & Milewicz, L. (2006, August). Moving towards shareable metadata. First Monday 11(8). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/shreeves/index.html
  • Kott, K., Dunn, J., Halbert, M., Johnston, L., Milewicz, L., & Shreeves, S. (2006, May). Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer project. D-Lib Magazine 12(5). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may06/kott/05kott.html
  • Donovan, C., Milewicz, E. J., & Smolkin, L. B. (2003, March). Beyond the single text: Nurturing young children's interest in reading and writing for multiple purposes. Young Children 58(2), 30-36.

[edit] Presentations

  • “DLF/IMLS Project Update.” Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum, November 2006, Boston, MA. Co-presenters: David Seaman, Perry Willett, Tom Habing, Kat Hagedorn, & Katherine Kott
  • “The Voyages Project: A Sustainable Model for Partnership between Scholars and Digital Librarians.” Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum, November 2006, Boston, MA.
  • “OAI-PMH: Implementation planning.” DLF OAI Implementers' Workshop, August 25, 2006, Palo Alto, CA.
  • “Creating Shareable Metadata.” WebWise Pre-Conference Workshop, February 2006, Los Angeles, CA.
  • “Universities, Reading Rooms, and the Functional Aesthetics of Space.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, November 2005, Washington, DC.
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