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Digital Initiatives Librarian

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I joined University of Louisville Libraries in 2006 as their inaugural Digital Initiatives Librarian. Based in Archives and Special Collections, I coordinate the digitization, digital presentation, and digital preservation of archival collections and other library resources, managing our Digital Collections and contributing to the development and growth of ThinkIR, the University of Louisville's Institutional Repository.

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About Rachel I. Howard

I joined University of Louisville Libraries in 2006 as their inaugural Digital Initiatives Librarian. Based in Archives and Special Collections, I coordinate the digitization, digital presentation, and digital preservation of archival collections and other library resources, managing our Digital Collections and contributing to the development and growth of ThinkIR, the University of Louisville's Institutional Repository.

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2006 - Present	Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Louisville ‐ Archives and Special Collections
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2002 - 2004	Project Manager, Museum of History & Industry ‐ Crossing Organizational Boundaries (IMLS National Leadership Grant)
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1998 - 2001	Digital Conversion Specialist, Library of Congress ‐ American Folklife Center
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Library and Information Science, Archival Science, Cataloging and Metadata, Scholarly Communication, and Scholarly Publishing

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2010-2012 Margaret Cross Norton Award from Midwest Archives Conference
Selected for 2015 Archives Leadership Institute cohort

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2006	M.L.I.S., University of Washington - Seattle Campus ‐ Information School
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1995	B.A., University of Notre Dame ‐ History
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ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository
University of Louisville Digital Collections

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Archives & Special Collections

William F. Ekstrom Library

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY 40292

502-852-4476

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5601-5514

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Recent Works (2)

Publishing Partnership: Facilitating Open Access through Libraries Collaboration with Clinical Departments (Jessica Petrey, Sarah Frankel and Rachel Howard) Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) (2021)

When the University of Louisville Libraries launched the ThinkIR institutional repository on the bepress Digital Commons platform in 2015, we anticipated offering open access journal publishing several years in the future. However, the Division of ...

Overcoming legacy processing in photographic collections through collaboration and digital technologies. (Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, et al.) Collections: a journal for museum and archives professionals (2018)

In the 1960s, a Louisville photography studio began donating its negatives, prints, and invoices to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. The Caufield & Shook Collection remains a significant primary source for local history and ...

Research Works (8)

Overcoming legacy processing in photographic collections through collaboration and digital technologies. (Terri Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, Randy Kuehn, et al.) Collections: a journal for museum and archives professionals (2018)

In the 1960s, a Louisville photography studio began donating its negatives, prints, and invoices to the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. The Caufield & Shook Collection remains a significant primary source for local history and ...

Community as resource: crowdsourcing transcription of an historic newspaper. (Caroline Daniels, Terri L. Holtze, Rachel I. Howard, et al.) Faculty Scholarship (2014)

Like many cultural heritage institutions, the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Louisville faces the dichotomy of material abundance and budgetary scarcity. Driven by the desire to make historical primary sources accessible online, ...

Managing the merger of archives and special collections : setting our own agenda. (Caroline Daniels, Delinda Stephens Buie, Rachel I. Howard, et al.) Faculty Scholarship (2014)

At the University of Louisville a merger of archives and special collections had been discussed for decades, but for a variety of reasons, always dismissed. There were practical reasons in favor of it, but there ...

The born-digital deluge : documenting twenty-first century events. (Rachel Howard, Heather Fox and Caroline Daniels) Faculty Scholarship (2011)

With digital recording devices readily available to most people, events are documented and shared on-line in real time by the “person on the street.” The ease of creation and dissemination belies what archivists know will ...

Facilitating greater access to ETDs through CONTENTdm (Rachel I. Howard and Tyler Goldberg) OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives (2011)

Bound theses and dissertations (BTDs) have increasingly been supplemented or replaced by electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Since 2002, the University of Louisville Libraries have been building a collection of born-digital and digitized ETDs in ...

The University of Louisville School of Music Guest Book : from local treasure to online resource. (James Procell and Rachel Howard) Faculty Scholarship (2010)

A collaboration between the University of Louisville’s Dwight Anderson Music Library and Digital Initiatives Department has resulted in the digitization of the University of Louisville School of Music Guest Book. Begun in 1949, the book ...

Content selection, preparation, and management. (Rachel Howard and Gail McMillan) A guide to distributed digital preservation. (2010)

This chapter covers recommendations for policies regarding the selection, preparation, and management of digital content preserved in a Private LOCKSS Network (PLN). It provides best practices for organizing and data wrangling collections of both scanned ...

Historic maps meet Google maps : the University of Louisville's Kentucky Maps collection. (Terri L. Holtze and Rachel I. Howard) Faculty Scholarship (2008)

Online access to historic maps, enhanced by JPEG2000 format and, in some cases, Google Maps, has proved popular with scholars, students, community members, and librarians. This article will discuss the planning, scanning, metadata creation, and ...

Guest Columns (2)

Old news - The Louisville Leader's genealogical gems. (Rachel Howard) Faculty Scholarship (2014)

The Louisville Leader African-American community newspaper, published weekly in Louisville from 1917 to 1950, offers a perspective on local and national events not available in the mainstream media at the time. The newspaper's columns highlighting ...

Preserving digital information. (Rachel Howard) Faculty Scholarship (2008)

The University of Louisville participates in a federally-funded partnership, the MetaArchive Cooperative, to develop a protocol for the distributed preservation of digital cultural heritage materials.

Presentations (2)

Breaking Out of the Box: Transforming Archival Collections and Workflows through Collaborative Description Projects (Rachel I. Howard, Rebecca Pattillo, Ruth E. Bryan, et al.) Midwest Archives Conference (2019)

Archivists and archival collections can often be siloed into the “special” corner of their parent library: under described, underutilized, and often even unknown. Finding a path out of isolation may require taking a new look ...

Pathways to open access : the story of an institutional repository and how we built it. (Dwayne Buttler, Rachel Howard and Sarah Frankel) Faculty Scholarship (2016)

The central purpose of an institutional repository (IR) is providing open access to scholarship. That scholarship originates primarily through the work of faculty and students at research institutions, leading research libraries to embrace IRs and ...

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