Lorrie Dong

Résumé

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, expected May 2013
M.S.I.S. in Information Studies, Certificate of Advanced Study in Preservation Administration from UT Austin, Aug. 2008
M.Phil. in Renaissance literature from the University of Cambridge, Oct. 2005
B.A. with highest honors in English, minor in Education from the University of California (UC) at Berkeley, May 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Crow, J., Broussard, R., Dong, L., Finn, J., Wiley, B., & Geisler, G. (2012). A synthesis of research on ICT adoption and use by medical professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Health Informatics Symposium. Forthcoming.
Dong, L. (2011). The economics and politics of international preservation collaborations: A Malian case study. Archival Science. Forthcoming in print. doi: 10.1007/s10502-011-9156-z.
Dong, L. (2008). Online appendices. In J. Drewes & J. Page (Eds.), Promoting preservation awareness in libraries: A sourcebook for academic, public, school, and special collections. Westport, CT: Greenwood Presss. http://www.abc-clio.com/BookCompanion.aspx?id=2147498078&section=1.
Kim, S., Dong, L., & Durden, M. (2006; note: issued 2008). Batch archival processing: Preserving Arnold Wesker’s digital manuscripts. Archival Issues, 30(2), 91-106.

PRESENTATIONS

UNESCO Memory of the World 2012 Conference: paper, "The Ethical and Legal Issues of Historical Mental Health Records as Cultural Heritage” (forthcoming, September 2012)
Archival Education & Research Institute (AERI) 2012 Conference: workshop co-organizer, "Strategies for Designing Undergraduate Archival Courses" (forthcoming, July 2012)
Virginia Forum 2012: paper co-author, “Central State Hospital: A Century of African American Mental Health Care”
Association for Library and Information Science Education 2012 Conference: juried program co-presenter, “Student Led Conferences and Internships: Integrating Professional Community Engagement into an iSchool Doctoral Program"
AERI 2011 Conference: paper, “Historical mental hospital records: Classification, communities, & archives-creation”
Engaging in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage 2010 Student Symposium: co-organizer
Society of American Archivists (SAA) 2010 Conference: chair, “Preserving and Digitizing Records in the Developing World: Trust, Accountability, and International Cooperation"; paper, “The Timbuktu Manuscript Project: A Decade of Global-Local Collaboration”
UK and Ireland Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research/Network of Archival Educators and Trainers 2010 Conference: paper, “New Constructions of Malian Identity: International Collaborations & Digital Interpretations of the Ancient Past”

POSTERS

AERI 2012 Conference: poster, title TBD (forthcoming, July 2012)
SAA 2011 Conference: poster, “Community archives-building with mental institution records”
AERI 2010 Conference: poster, “The Publication of Private Lives: Creating Digital Access to Mental Hospital Records”
SAA 2009 Conference: poster, “Reconstructing the Digital Preservation & Archival Practices of a Conservator: The Paul N. Banks Collection”
Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property (ANAGPIC) 2008 Conference: poster, “Assessing Commercial Binding at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries”

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Instructor, School of Information, UT Austin, Jan. 2010-present
Conservation technician, Architecture & Planning Library, UT Austin, Aug. 2008-present
Teaching Assistant, School of Information, UT Austin, Aug.-Dec. 2010
Project archivist, Central State Hospital, Petersburg, VA, June - Aug. 2010
Teaching Assistant and Graduate Assistant, School of Information, UT Austin, Aug. 2007-May 2008
Preservation intern, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C., July-Aug. 2007
Cataloguing assistant, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, TX, Sept. 2006-July 2007
Conservation/preservation hourly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 2005-Aug. 2006

SERVICE

Member of the SAA Committee on Education, 2012-2014 (forthcoming)
Co-founder of the Cultural Heritage & Information Preservation Society, Jan. 2010-present
Riding assistant with Thoughtful House Equestrians, Austin, TX, 2006-2009; Learning Together Equestrians, Austin, TX, 2012-present
Editor for ANAGPIC, June 2008-March 2011
Graduate Student Assembly Representative for the UT Libraries Committee, Aug. 2009-2010
Volunteer photo archivist and conservator at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, UT Austin, Jan. 2007-May 2007

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

William Powers, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2013 (forthcoming)
Institute of Museum & Library Services Doctoral Preservation Fellowship, 2008-2012
AERI Conference Scholarship, 2009-2012
Carolyn Hixson Harris Endowed Presidential Scholarship, 2007-2008
Council on Library and Information Resources’ Rovelstad Scholarship in International Librarianship, 2007
Billie Grace Herring Endowed Scholarship, 2006
Houston Endowed Presidential Scholarship, 2006

[updated May 19, 2012]