Nicole Saylor, head of Digital Library Services, provides leadership, coordination, and advice for digital activities in the Libraries and, in collaboration with the campus community, for the University as a whole. She works closely with collection management, preservation, technical services, and other library staff in developing and expanding digital activities; and with academic units across the University to identify, convert, preserve, and share digital objects. Nicole joined the University of Iowa Libraries in the spring of 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) with a specialization in Folklore. For a decade she worked as a newspaper editor at the Kansas City Star and Wisconsin State Journal newspapers. Her previous library positions include archivist-librarian at the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she coordinated digital projects with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Center (UWDCC), including the Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1936-1947, a multi-media online catalog of government-funded ethnic field recordings, photographs, and scores from Wisconsin. She has also worked as a reference librarian at the Davenport Public Library, and as a freelance writer recently co-authored essays and liner notes for the CD series Folksongs of Illinois (University of Illinois Press), produced by the Illinois Humanities Council.
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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...