Harrison W. Inefuku is the Digital Repository Coordinator at Iowa State University, where he works with faculty, staff, students and administrators to make scholarly, research and creative works created by the university community openly accessible via Digital Repository @ Iowa State University. Harrison's primary research interests lie in applying archival science and practice to the management of institutional repositories. He is also interested in digital preservation, university archives and diversity within the information professions.
Harrison has served on national committees and roundtables for the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association and the Society of American Archivists. He is an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, Association of Research Libraries Career Enhancement Fellow and Society of American Archivists Mosaic Scholar.
Harrison completed the dual MAS/MLIS program at the University of British Columbia in 2011, where he served as a graduate research assistant with the InterPARES 3 Project, University Institutional Repositories: Copyright and Long-Term Preservation, and the Digital Records Forensics Project. In 2007, he earned a BFA in Graphic Design and a self-designed BA in Visual Culture from the University of the Pacific. While at Pacific, Harrison researched and presented at national conferences on the depiction of racial minorities in the arts and popular culture.