Nicole Saylor is head of Digital Library Services (DLS) at the University of Iowa Libraries. DLS provides support to scholars engaged in interdisciplinary digital research by assisting in the creation and delivery of unique digital content and encouraging the use of recognized standards and best practices to ensure long-term preservation and access to digital scholarship. Nicole joined the University of Iowa Libraries in 2007. She holds a B.A. in Mass Communication from Iowa State University (1992) and an M.A. in Library and Information Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004). Her previous library positions include archivist-librarian at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) at UW-Madison. For a decade prior she worked as an editor at the Kansas City Star and Wisconsin State Journal newspapers. She is currently a member of the NEH-funded National Folklore Archives Initiative Project team and the Project Bamboo Scholars and Digital Collections Survey team.
Articles
Community, and: Celestial Monochord: Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues, and: The Art of the Rural: Considering Rural Arts and Culture in the Twenty-First Century (review essay), Journal of American Folklore (2011)
Mentoring: It's a Good Thing: what we learned partying with student librarians (with Jen Wolfe and Paul A. Soderdahl), College & Research Libraries News (2011)
Party hosting is an exercise in preparation and personal finesse. The ambiance and menu must...
The Folk Music Index, and: Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings (review), Notes (2010)
The Folk Music Index and the Discography of Bluegrass Sound Recordings are two robust, open-access...
Building Digital Libraries: A How- To-Do-It Manual (review), Library Resources & Technical Services (2009)
Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual. By Terry Reese Jr. and Kyle Banerjee. New York:...
Presentations
Virtual Writing University Archive partnership with the University of Iowa Libraries (with James Elmborg), American Library Association Annual Conference (2010)
Two sets of panelists, each with a librarian and an LIS faculty member, discussed the...
Scaling Down to Scale Up: Streamlining Production for Mass Digitization Efforts (with Greg Prickman, Mark F. Anderson, and Jen Wolfe), 2010 Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (2010)
Departments looking to increase their digitization efforts from start-up project mode to a maturing digital...
Public Folklore Collections in the Upper Midwest poster (with Janet C. Gilmore), American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (2008)
Public folklorist have generated a wealth of ethnographic documents since the 1970s through thousands of...
Social Movement to Public Policy: Digital History in the IDL (with Jen Wolfe, Mark F. Anderson, Wendy C. Robertson, and Anne E. Shelley), Iowa Government Documents Round Table Annual Workshop (2008)
The Digital Library Services staff from the University of Iowa Libraries provided a content update...