Xuying is a Data Analyst for the Penn State University Libraries. She was interviewed by Melinda Kernik in July, 2021. How did you come to your current position? Before joining the Penn State University Libraries at University Park, I was a research associate in a biomedical lab at another campus of Penn State. While at…
Melinda Kernik is the Spatial Data Analyst and Curator for the University of Minnesota Libraries and U-spatial. She was interviewed by Susan Braxton in June, 2021. How did you come to your current position? I was a graduate student at University of Minnesota in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society. In my first year,…
This post is part of our Curators Corner series. Every so often we’ll feature a different DCN Curator. The series grew out of a community-building activity wherein curators at our ten partner organizations interview each other “chain-letter style” in order to get to know each other and their work outside of the DCN better. We…
Jon Petters is Assistant Director of Data Management and Curation Services at Virginia Tech. He was interviewed by Marley Kalt in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been working at Virginia Tech for four years now. My wife got a professor position in Blacksburg, and I was lucky enough to…
Marley Kalt is a Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University. She was interviewed by Andrew Battista in July 2020. How did you come to your current position? I recently completed a Master’s in Information Science. Before graduate school I knew I wanted to go into academic librarianship, and through digital curation coursework and extracurricular…
Andrew Battista is the Librarian for Geospatial Information Systems at New York University. He was interviewed by Jen Darragh in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and took a library job as an Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at a small liberal arts school….
Jen Darragh is a Senior Research Data Management Consultant for the Duke University Libraries. She was interviewed by Liza Coburn in May 2020. How did you come to your current position? I’ve been involved in some aspect of research data since I graduated from college. I started out working on a longitudinal research data project…
Susan Borda is the Data Workflow Specialist atthe University of Michigan Library. She was interviewed by Dave Fearon in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position – when did you start and where were you before this? June 2017. Montana State University. I had jobs in Higher Ed and corporate IT for…
Dave Fearon is a Senior Data Management Consultant atJohns Hopkins University. He was interviewed by Alicia Hofelich Mohr in January, 2020. How did you come to your current position? I originally got a PhD in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara. Neither I nor my wife wanted to be professors (nor were the offers coming), so…
Alicia Hofelich Mohr is the Research Support Coordinator for Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) at the University of Minnesota. Alicia was interviewed by Sophia Lafferty-Hess in September, 2019. How did you come to your current position? I came to this position in a roundabout way, like a few other curators. I was in…