Brandie Pullen is the Resident Librarian working in Data Curation at Virginia Tech Library. Brandie was interviewed by Sherry Lake in March 2024. How did you come to your current position? Coming out of college I knew I wanted to work in Libraries, something “behind the scenes.” I started working in metadata and cataloging, doing…
Sherry Lake is the Scholarly Repository Librarian at the University of Virginia. Sherry was interviewed by Madina Grace in February 2024. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been at the University of Virginia (UVa) Library for over 20 years but I’ll start in 2010 when the NSF sharing data letter came out….
Madina Grace is the Repository Services Analyst at Duke University Libraries. Madina was interviewed by Peter Cerda in January 2024. How did you come to your current position? I discovered this position while browsing online job listings after graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. With my prior experience as a graduate assistant…
Peter Cerda is the Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data at the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue Repositories. Peter was interviewed by Leslie Delserone in October 2023. How did you come to your current position? When I was starting to wrap up my graduate studies [in ecology and evolutionary biology], I realized that…
This post is a spin-off of our Curators’ Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Advisory or Governance Board member. Get to know the colleagues at the DCN that help keep our operations going! Jody Gray, Associate University Librarian for Research, University of Minnesota, was interviewed by Mikala Narlock in October 2023….
Leslie Delserone is the Research Data Services and Science Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Leslie was interviewed by Michelle Yee in August 2023. How did you come to your current position? How far back should I go?! I was trained as a plant pathologist, so I’ve always had ties to science. When I was…
Michelle Yee is the Senior Project Coordinator at the Health Sciences Library, NYU. Michelle was interviewed by Jenny Coffman in July 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to your current position? I started in May 2020. It was quite a time to begin any sort of job. After graduating,…
Jenny Coffman is a Science and Engineering Research Librarian at UVA specializing in Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science. Jenny’s position is part of our Research Data Services and Social, Natural and Engineering Sciences team. Jenny was interviewed by Sarah Wright in June 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about…
Sarah Wright is a Research Data and Life Sciences Librarian at Cornell University. Sarah was interviewed by Laura Bowman in April 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to your current position? I have a Master’s in Botany that is really more geared toward biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology….
Laura Bowman is a Data Curator at DRYAD. Laura was interviewed by Yasir Karim in March 2023. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to your current position? I have my masters in accounting, and I was an auditor for six years. I then went into Higher Education and did financial…