Abstract:
Digital technologies have brought about fundamental environmental transformation to research campuses because of the expanded capacity to generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge in digital form. This transformation has put unprecedented stress on the traditional knowledge infrastructure. There have been various responses to these changes including the one at Yale of creating a new organization with the specific mission to lead the development of a coherent digital content infrastructure to ensure that Yale's digital assets will be discoverable and accessible for teaching and research both now and in the future. Just over two years old, Yale's Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure is in the early stages of developing a digital ecosystem to support the transformed environment. This talk will review strategy and implementation.

Speaker Bio:
Meg Bellinger was appointed director of the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure (ODAI) at Yale in October 2008 to provide strategic and operational leadership for the development of the University's digital assets and asset management infrastructure. Meg holds a key leadership and coordination function that guides and facilitates collaboration among the Library, museums, other campus content repositories and Information Technology Services to create a coherent and integrated campus-wide architecture to support Yale's digital assets.

Prior to her appointment, Meg, who has an MLS degree, had been Associate University Librarian for Integrated Library Systems and Technical Services at Yale University Library for five years. Meg had strategic leadership responsibility for five library departments and approximately 170 staff in the following: Integrated Library Technology Services, Manuscripts and Archives, Social Science Libraries and Information Services, Catalog and Metadata Services, Acquisitions, and the Digital Production and Integration Program, which included the newly formed Usability and Assessment program. Meg was project sponsor for several new technology initiatives at YUL, including initital development of digital repository services, digital preservation policies, next generation OPAC interface development, electronic-reserves, integration with Sakai, and cross-collection search.

In University-wide initiatives, Meg was appointed a member of the Provost's Digital Landscapes Committee focusing on faculty needs for technology infrastructure and servces, she was invited to represent the libraries on the Vice President's Task Force on Digital Dissemination focusing on the dissemination of Yale's digital assets and branding, and is co-chair of the steering committee for the Collections Collaborative project supporting collabortive digitization, collections management, metadata tool development, and teaching support for primary source collections across the libraries, archives and museums of Yale University. She is a member of the Arts Area Advisory Committee, the Provost's Committee on Access to Scholarly Publications, and co-chairs the Mass Storage facility working group.

Before coming to Yale, Meg was Vice President for Digital and Preservation Resources at OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and led planning and implementation of digital archiving, development of digital content management tools, programmatic cooperative development, and digital production services. During her ten years at OCLC, Meg was actively engaged at an international level in digital library and preservation professional activity, including board membership on the UK Digital Preservation Coalition, and on the Strata Supervisory Board (joint venture between OCLC and the Royal Library of the Netherlands). She participated in the Managua UNESCO Consultation Meeting on the Preservation of Digital Heritage. She was a member of the Newspaper Division of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Meg served as the OCLC representative to the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and participated on the early planning meetings of the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP).