I am the author of Web Design on a Shoestring, and work for The New York Public Library, where I am the Director for Education Outreach for The Research Libraries. Before that I was The Digital Library's Assistant Director for Technology where I managed the team that produced the digital asset management system and other bits of infrastructure behind In Motion: The African American Migration Experience and the NYPL Digital Gallery.
While I have been on speaking hiatus for the last two years to give birth to the perfect child and to start a Digital Archives class in the School of Information and Library Science at the Pratt Institute, I do get on the talk circuit from time to time.
From the fall of 1999 until the Spring of 2002, I was The Branch Libraries' Web Coordinator. The best known project from this stint is probably the NYPL Online Style Guide, which shows how to author web sites in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Cascading Style Sheets, co-written with Jeffrey Zeldman of The Web Standards Project.
Before coming to NYPL, I completed a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science at The University of Michigan, School of Information. While there I had the opportunity to work on projects that proved to be formative experiences: The Internet Public Library and The Humanities Text Initiative changed the way I thought about markup languages. Markup languages are intended to be used for logical structure, not for layout.
I also did some original cataloging of the letters of William Jenks while working for the William L. Clements Library. That experience, along with the editing I did for The Library's Women in History: A New Guide to Manuscripts of the Clements Library, taught me two things: 1. catalogers rule and 2. I am not a cataloger.
Last Updated March, 2006.