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Ann Hanlon

  • Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives, Digital Collections and Initiatives

Education

  • Master of Arts, History - University of Maryland
  • Master of Science in Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professional Activities

Select Presentations

  • Transforming Digital Collections: Use and Reuse, Midwest Archives Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2022
  • (with Marcy Bidney, Thomas Padilla, Kim Pham, and Amanda Henley) Collections as Data as an Organizational Model, Association of College and Research Libraries, April 2021
  • (with Scott Prater and Melissa Olson) Know What You Have, Use What You Know: You May Already Have a Digital Preservation Program in the Making, Digital Library Federation Forum: NDSA Digital Preservation 2019, Tampa, Florida, October 17, 2019

Select Writings

  • (with Kate Ganski) "Listen First, Collaborate Later: Possibilities for Meaningful IL+DH Collaboration," Exploring Literacies Through Digital Humanities: A dh+lib Special Issue, August 2020.
  • (with Iris Xie, Rakesh Babu, Tae Hee Lee, Melissa Davey Castillo, Sukjiin You) "Enhancing usability of digital libraries: Designing help features to support blind and visually impaired users." Information Processing & Management, Volume 57, Issue 3, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102110
  • Review of Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, by Charles B. Travis, Cartographic Perspectives, Number 85, July 2017. https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp85-hanlon/1522
  • (with Marisa Ramirez, Gail McMillan, Joan Dalton, Heather Smith and Chelsea Kern) “Do Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations Diminish Publishing Opportunities in the Sciences?” College and Research Libraries,  January 2015
  • (with Marisa Ramirez) “Asking for Permission: A Survey of Copyright Workflows for Institutional Repositories.” portal: Libraries and the Academy, Volume 11, Number 2, April 2011
  • (with Susan Schreibman) “Determining Value for Digital Humanities Tools: Report on a Survey of Tool Developers.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2010