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Sarah L. Shreeves

135 Grainger ELIC

1301 W. Springfield Ave.

Urbana, IL 61801

Previous Position(s)

• 2002-2005: Coordinator, Institute of Museum and Library Services Digital Collections and Content Project and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration, University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2002: Coordinator, Mellon Project to Implement a Scholarly Information Portal Using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration, University Library. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 2000-2001: Project Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• 1996-2000: Processing Supervisor, Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences and Humanities Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education

• 2002 - M.S. Library and Information Science: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  
• 1996 - M.A. Children's Literature: Simmons College, Boston, MA.
  
• 1992 - B.A. Medieval Studies: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. 
  

Awards and Distinctions

Awards

• Jane B. and Robert B. Downs Professional Promise Award, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003).
• Infinite Mile Individual Award for Communication and Collaboration, for exceptional contributions in inclusive leadership and collaboration, MIT Libraries (2001).
• Infinite Mile Team Award for Community, for exceptional efforts to enhance community, Third Barton Transition Team (co-chair), MIT Libraries (2001).

Grants Awarded

• 2007-2010: Investigating Data Curation Profiles Across Research Domains/ Institute of Museum and Library Services, (Co-Principal Investigator).
• 2007-2010: Next Generation Digital Federations: Adding Value through Collection Evaluation, Metadata Relations, and Strategic Scaling/ Institute of Museum and Library Services, (Co-Principal Investigator). 
  
• 2006-2008: Metadata for You and Me: A Shareable Metadata Training Program/ Institute of Museum and Library Services (Principal Investigator). 
  

Recent Publications

Articles

• Shreeves, Sarah L., Jenn Riley, and Liz Milewicz. " Moving Towards Shareable Metadata." First Monday, 11, no. 8 (2006).
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Thomas G. Habing, Kat Hagedorn, and Jeffery Young. " Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Library Trends, 53, no. 4 (2005): 576-589.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Sarah L. Shreeves. "Search and Discovery Across Collections: The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project." Library Hi Tech, 22, no. 3 (2004): 307-322.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Sarah L. Shreeves. "The IMLS NLG Program: Fostering Collaboration." Library Hi Tech, 22, no. 3 (2004): 246-248.
• Shreeves, Sarah L. and Christine M. Kirkham. " Experiences of Educators Using a Portal of Aggregated Metadata." Journal of Digital Information 5, no. 3 (2004).
  
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Joanne Kaczmarek, and Timothy W. Cole. "Harvesting cultural heritage metadata using the OAI protocol." Library Hi-Tech 21, no. 2 (2003): 159-169.
  

Books

• Shreeves, Sarah L., Jenn Riley, and Kat Hagedorn (eds), In Press. Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata, Digital Library Federation.

Book Chapters

• Shreeves, Sarah L., Stephanie Hartman, and Elke Piontek-Ma, 2006. "Long live the team! Factors in the longevity and success of a semi-autonomous work team, Chap. 5" in Teams in Library Technical Services edited by Rosann V. Bazirjian and Rebecca Mugridge, 87-106.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., 2005. "The Basics of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, Chap. 8" in Technology for the Rest of Us: A Primer on Computer Technologies for the Low-Tech Librarian edited by Nancy Courtney, 85-107.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Sarah L. Shreeves. 2004. "Lessons learned from the Illinois OAI Metadata Harvesting Project, Chap. 11" in Metadata in Practice edited by Diane I. Hillmann and Elaine L. Westbrooks, 174-190.
  
  

Other Publications

• Digital Library Federation, 2006. " Aquifer Metadata Working Group."  Digital Library Federation/Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records.
• Foulonneau, Muriel, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, and Sarah L. Shreeves, 2005. "Using collection descriptions to enhance an aggregation of harvested item-level metadata." In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Denver, CO, USA, June 7-11, 2005. New York, NY: Association of Computing Machinery: 32-41.
• Digital Library Federation, 2005. Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata . Edited by Sarah L. Shreeves, Jenn Riley, and Kat Hagedorn.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Ellen M. Knutson, Besiki Stvilia, Carole L. Palmer, Michael B. Twidale, and Timothy W. Cole, 2005. " Is ‘quality’ metadata ‘shareable’ metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections." In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN edited by Hugh A. Thompson. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries: 223-237.
• Stvilia, Besiki, Les Gasser, Michael Twidale, Sarah L. Shreeves, and Timothy W. Cole, 2004. "Metadata quality for federated collections." In Proceedings of ICIQ04 - 9th International Conference on Information Quality, Cambridge, MA edited by Shobha Chengalur-Smith, Louiqa Raschid, Jennifer Long, and Craig Seko. Cambridge, MA: International Conference on Information Quality, Inc: 111-125.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., 2004. At the Event: JISC Terminology Services Workshop. Ariadne. 39.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., 2004. " IMLS Digital Collections and Content." Collection Description Focus News Bulletin.
• Shreeves, Sarah L. and Timothy W. Cole, 2003. " Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections" [Poster Abstract]. In DC-2003, proceedings of the international DCMI metadata conference and workshop, September 28-October 2, 2003, Seattle, Washington USA. [United States]: DCMI: 241-242.
• Shreeves, Sarah L., Christine M. Kirkham, Joanne Kaczmarek, and Timothy W. Cole, 2003. "http://hdl.handle.net/2142/144." In Proceedings: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries : May 27-31, 2003, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA edited by Catherine C. Marshall, Geneva Henry, and Lois M.L. Delcambre. Los Alamitos, Calif.: IEEE Computer Society: 306-308.
• Cole, Timothy W., Joanne Kaczmarek, Paul F. Marty, Christopher J. Prom, Beth Sandore, and Sarah L. Shreeves, 2002. " Now that we've found the ‘hidden web’ what can we do with it? The Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting experience." In Museums and the Web 2002: selected papers from an international conference edited by David Bearman and Jennifer Trant. Pittsburgh, PA: Archives & Museum Informatics: 63-72.

Editorial Work

• Shreeves, Sarah (ed.), 2007. Journal of Library Metadata, Hawthorn Press.
• Cole, Timothy W. and Shreeves, Sarah (eds.), 2004.  Library Hi Tech 22 no. 3.  Special issue on IMLS National Leadership Grant Program.

Recent Presentations

• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Small Science: First Impression of Curation Needs." Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Philadelphia, PA: November 7, 2007.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Standards (or lack thereof) in Institutional Repositories." Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Philadelphia, PA: November 6, 2007.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "The Future of Institutional Repositories." Panel discussion. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI: October 21, 2007.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  " The Dynamics of Sharing: An Introduction to Shareable Metadata and Interoperability." Panel on the Dynamics of Sharing: An Introduction to Shareable Metadata and Interoperability. Annual Conference of the Society for American Archivists, Chicago, IL: August 31, 2007.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  " Creating Rich Shareable Metadata: The DLF Aquifer MODS Implementation Guidelines." Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: Implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX. Sponsored by the LITA Standards Interest Group. ALA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C: June 25, 2007.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Search Interoperability. OAI Protocol, and Shareable Metadata: An Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Day-long workshop for Western New York Library Resources Council, Buffalo, NY: March 19, 2007.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Search Interoperability. OAI Protocol, and Shareable Metadata: An Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Pre-Conference Workshop on Sharing Images and Data: Making Access to Collections Easier and Better, Web-Wise 2007, Washington, D.C.: Feb. 28, 2007.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Search Interoperability, OAI, and Shareable Metadata: An Introduction to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Day-long workshop for METRO Library Consortium, New York City, NY: December 8, 2006.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Building Good Digital Collections" and "Making Scholarship Accessible: Building a Digital Repository." Workshop on Building Digital Collections, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: July 20, 2006.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Metadata for You and Me: Interoperability, OAI, and Shareable Metadata." NELINET Workshop: Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Purpose, Practice, and Promise, Southborough, MA:  June 7, 2006.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah and Jenn Riley.  "Metadata for You and Me: Moving Towards Shareable Metadata."  Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference, Bloomington, IL: May 11, 2006.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah, Muriel Foulonneau and Caroline Arms.  " Sharing Resources by Collection: OAI Sets and Set Descriptions." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, Austin, TX: April 10, 2006.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  " Metadata for You and Me: Moving Towards More Shareable Metadata." Web-Wise 2006, Los Angeles, CA: Feb. 16, 2006.
• Shreeves, Sarah, Jenn Riley and Liz Milewicz.  "Creating Shareable Metadata." Web-Wise 2006 Pre-Conference, Los Angeles, CA: Feb. 15, 2006.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  " Thoughts on Shareable Metadata, MODS, and RDA." American Library Association Midwinter 2007, Seattle, WA: Jan. 20, 2006.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Shareable Metadata." Open Archives Initiative: Implementation and Best Practices Training. Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA: Nov. 10, 2005.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Activities of the Aquifer Metadata Working Group." Panel on the Aquifer Initiative. Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA: Nov. 8, 2005.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata." Panel on the Distributed Library: OAI for Digital Library Aggregation. Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA: Nov. 8, 2005.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Collaborative Metadata Aggregations: The Road to Shareable Metadata." Panel. Digital Library Federation Fall Forum, Charlottesville, VA: Nov. 8, 2005. Moderator.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Interoperability, OAI, and Shareable Metadata." Building Successful Collaborative Digitization Projects: A Statewide Digitization Project Planners Conference, Dublin, OH: Oct. 20, 2005.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata." Basics and Beyond Digitization Training. Illinois Digitization Institute, Urbana, IL: Apr. 18, 2005.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Best Practices for OAI: A Status Report." Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, San Diego, CA: April 14, 2005.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Integrating Access to Digital Content, or, OAI is Easy, Metadata is Hard." Visual Resources Association 23rd Annual Conference, Miami Beach, FL: March 6, 2005.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata." Basics and Beyond Digitization Training. Illinois Digitization Institute, Urbana, IL: Mar. 1, 2005.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Integrating Access for Information Discovery and More." Meeting of the National Library and Museum Services Board, Washington, D.C.: Feb. 16, 2005.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Metadata Basics" Workshop for UIUC Cataloging Staff, Urbana, IL: Nov. 30, 2004.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata." Basics and Beyond Digitization Training. Illinois Digitization Institute, Urbana, IL: Oct. 4 2004.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Digitization Training and Metadata: The View from Two UIUC Projects." Annual Meeting of the American Association of State and Local History, Saint Louis, MO: Sep. 30, 2004.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Basics and Beyond Digitization Training, Illinois Digitization Institute, Urbana, IL: July 27, 2004.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  " The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Technology for the Rest of Us: What Every Librarian Should Understand About the Technologies that Affect Us, Columbus, OH: May 27, 2004.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." Web-Wise 2004 Pre-Conference, Chicago, IL: Mar. 3, 2004.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Integrating Resources for Information Access." Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage: Current Status, Future Needs: A Strategic Assessment Workshop, Washington, D.C.: August 25, 2003.
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Green Flags and Yellow Flags: Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing OAI Services." Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians, Terre Haute, IN: May 15, 2003.
  
• Shreeves, Sarah.  "Public Services at the MIT Libraries: A New Way of Working." Living the Future 3 Conference, Tucson, AZ: April 28, 2000.
  

Professional Service

• American Library Association
  • Association of College and Research Libraries
  • Library and Information Technology Association
• American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Beta Phi Mu, Alpha Chapter
  

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