Staff News
New Digital Collection Development Librarian
Elizabeth McAulay has joined the Digital Library Program as librarian for digital collection development. She comes to UCLA from the University of North Carolina's digital library program, where since 2002 she worked with faculty to identify collections for digitization and to build significant digital collections. She received her master's degree in English literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000, where she also gained experience as a teaching fellow, research assistant, and tutor. She earned her bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University.
New Health and Life Sciences Librarians
Amy Chatfield and Rikke Ogawa have been appointed as health and life sciences librarians in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Chatfield previously worked at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she supported the research and administrative needs of faculty and graduate students. She earned her BA in communication studies and English at the University of Michigan in April 2002 and her MLS from Wayne State University in May 2006. Prior to coming to UCLA, Ogawa was information services librarian for media and curriculum support at Stanford University's Lane Medical Library since 2000 and Web content coordinator prior to that. She earned both a BA in political science and an MLIS from UCLA; while working on her information studies degree, she was a reference desk assistant at the Biomedical Library.
Digital Humanities Fellowship Recipients
Sharon E. Farb, director of digital collections services, and Angela Riggio, digital collections management librarian, have been awarded a fellowship in digital humanities for their project "Investigating the 'D's' of Making Microfilm Collections of Early Women's Studies More Accessible." The fellowship program was created by the Division of Humanities in collaboration with the UCLA Library to foster scholarship in digital humanities by UCLA faculty, lecturers, graduate students, librarians, and technology staff.
