Transitioning to Electronic and Open Access: the ETD Program at Caltech

Presenter Information

Kathy Johnson, California Institute of TechnologyFollow

Location

King Library 225/229

Start Date

25-5-2011 1:30 PM

End Date

25-5-2011 2:15 PM

Description

How does a library build and manage a digital thesis and dissertation archive? Kathy Johnson will discuss considerations for retrospective thesis and dissertation digitization, publication of born-digital ETDs through the campus digital repository and trends in the ETD realm.

Speaker Biography

Katherine Johnson has been the Coordinator for Digital Repositories for the Caltech Library since 2009. She manages the development, growth and maintenance of 3 major repositories, including CaltechAUTHORS (faculty publications), CaltechCampusPubs (campus publications), and CaltechTHESIS (student theses and dissertations). In addition, she oversees 19 separate and smaller repositories, some of which are self-managed by groups outside the library. She serves as the liaison to the Caltech Graduate Office and manages the thesis acquisition process and review for CaltechTHESIS. She also provides training and workshops for the main repositories for students, faculty and staff.

Katherine joined the Caltech Library in 1995 as Catalog Librarian, and rose to Head of Technical Services in 1997. She holds a B.S in Environmental Science from Ferrum College, and an M.S. in Library Information Science from Columbia University.

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