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Denver, CO, September 30, 2004 -- The Board of Directors of the Collaborative Digitization Program is pleased to announce the appointment of Jill Koelling as Executive Director effective October 18, 2004. In making the announcement, Interim Executive Director and Chair of the CDP Board, Nancy Allen said: "We are delighted to welcome Jill to her new role as Executive Director. She will bring a great deal of technical expertise on digitization as well as a wealth of experience working with a variety of cultural heritage organizations, including historical societies, museums, libraries and archives." Jill Koelling has spent most of her curatorial career incorporating the use of digital technology to provide access to primary source materials. During her seven years as Curator of Photographs and Head of Digital Imaging at the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) she worked with society staff to establish the first digital imaging laboratory operated by a regional conservation center. Koelling served as the principal investigator for Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, a Library of Congress American Memory project that featured photographs from the Solomon Butcher collection and the Uriah Oblinger family letters detailing their homesteading experiences. The author of several articles and the recently published "Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach," from Altamira Press, Koelling has been a vocal advocate for successful digitization projects in the museum community. Koelling joins CDP after spending the past year and a half as Curator of Vis ual Materials at Cline Library, Northern Arizona University where she put her digital expertise to work increasing digital production and adding digital content to the Colorado Plateau Digital Archive. Koelling attended Montana State University where she attained a BA in Media & Theatre Arts, Photography. She later earned a MA in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska. The Collaborative Digitization Program at the University of Denver, established in 1999 as the Colorado Digitization Project, enables access to cultural, historical and scientific heritage collections of the West by building collaboration between archives, historical societies, libraries and museums. The CDP provides assistance to the cultural heritage community through best practice guidelines, workshops, and digitization grant funding. For more information on the CDP and its activities please visit www.cdpheritage.org or e-mail [email protected]. --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
