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Daniel P. O’Mahony Appointed Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy
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Daniel P. O’Mahony Daniel P. O’Mahony, formerly Director of Library Planning and Assessment, has been named Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy at the Brown University Library.
As AUL for Resource Strategy, Dan will be part of the Library’s senior executive team, and he will assume oversight for cross-departmental and cross-functional coordination of academic and budgetary strategy. In this capacity, he will work to improve decision-making and workflows by bringing a more intensively data-informed approach to maximizing the value of collection funding for teaching and research at Brown. Dan will continue to direct the Library’s wider planning and assessment functions.
Dan has an outstanding track record of accomplishments at the Library over more than 32 years as both a librarian and library administrator. Dan joined the Library in 1992 as the Government Documents Coordinator, overseeing the Library’s extensive interdisciplinary collection of United States, Rhode Island, and United Nations documents. In that role, he integrated access to both traditional and digital resources and facilitated the transition to a more electronic research environment.
As a nationally recognized expert in the area of government information, Dan testified twice before the United States Congress on matters regarding public access to government information. He was appointed three times to the national advisory council to the U.S. Government Publishing Office, and for many years taught a graduate course on government information at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. During his time at Brown, Dan’s direct contributions to research have been recognized in over 40 co-author credits on faculty publications.
Since 2003, Dan has worked in various administrative roles, directly overseeing or deeply involved in nearly all aspects of library operations and services. As Director of Planning and Assessment for the last 15 years, Dan has been critical to the Library’s success in advancing data gathering and analysis practices that have resulted in continuous improvement in resources, programs, and services to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff. He is an expert at gathering both quantitative and qualitative data to inform management decisions ranging from staff morale and satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic to student surveys and focus groups, addressing overcrowding in the stacks, and strengthening workplace culture and climate. Dan already plays a vital role in strategy and budget development with the University Librarian and Deputy University Librarian.
A highly capable and experienced staff member, Dan has been a key contributor to much of the Library’s success, and we are excited that he is taking on the broader leadership responsibilities of the AUL for Resource Strategy role.
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Pizza Please!
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Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Plan on visiting a library during finals? Let us fortify your efforts with pizza!
Schedule
- Monday, May 5 @ 8 p.m. at Orwig Music Library
- Tuesday, May 6 @ 9 p.m. in the lobby of the Rock
- Wednesday, May 7 @ 9 p.m. in Friedman Study Center at the SciLi
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Best of luck with finals!
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Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship
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For the past 30 years, Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship has served as an innovative hub for research and teaching in digital humanities (DH) and scholarly communication across disciplines. Join staff, faculty, and student stakeholders for a two-day symposium celebrating the center’s work in digital projects, training and critical DH pedagogy, and born-digital publications. The program highlights Brown Library’s leadership in the field and looks to the future
The symposium will showcase the exciting work our center and our students have been doing as we look to the future of the field.
Registration Required
Register for Day One – Thursday, May 1, 2025
Register for Day Two – Friday, May 2, 20205
Keynote
Jacqueline Wernimont The keynote address, “Dark Fibers, Missing Datasets, and the Politics of Occult Information,” will be delivered by alumna Jacqueline Wernimont A.M.’05 Ph.D.’09, Associate Professor of the Arts & Sciences, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College and the former Co-Director of HASTAC.
Program
Thursday, May 1
- 3:30 p.m. – Arrivals
- 4 p.m. – Symposium Opening Welcome and Introductions
- Joseph S. Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian
- Francis J. Doyle III, Provost
- Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- 4:30 p.m. – Keynote address from Jacqueline Wernimont A.M.’05 Ph.D.’09: “Dark Fibers, Missing Datasets, and the Politics of Occult Information” and Q&A
- 5:30 p.m. – Reception and Conversation on Widening the Impact of CDS
- Renée Ater, Visiting Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies
- John Bodel, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History
- James Egan, Professor of English
- Lukas Rieppel, Associate Professor of History
- Massimo Riva, Professor and Interim Chair of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Coordinator of the Virtual Humanities Lab, Affiliated Professor of Modern Culture and Media
- Patsy Lewis, Professor of Africana Studies (Research)
- James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Director of the Brazil Initiative
- Shana Weinberg, Associate Director, Public Humanities, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
- Allen H. Renear, Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Friday, May 2
- 8:30 a.m. – Arrivals, coffee
- 9 a.m. – Welcome from President Christina H. Paxson
- 9:15 to 10 a.m. – History of Digital Scholarship at Brown
- John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts
- Steve Lubar, George L. Littlefield Professor of American History, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Professor of American Studies
- Moderator: Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- 10 to 10:15 a.m. – Break
- 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. – Launching the Stolen Relations Project
- Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- Linford Fisher, Associate Professor of History
- Lorén Spears, Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum and enrolled Narragansett Tribal Nation citizen
- Paula Peters, journalist, educator and activist. Member of the Wampanoag tribe
- Moderator: Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Executive Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University
- 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. – Break
- 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Training and Critical DH Pedagogy with Students Past and Present
- Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications
- Warren Harding, Assistant Professor of English, SUNY, Binghamton
- Talya Housman, digital historian, museum educator, and library professional
- Maggie Masselli, Graduate Student in History of Art and Architecture
- Moderator: Nora Dimmock, Deputy University Librarian
- 12:30 p.m. – Lunch with a Viewing Party of the New Frameworks to Preserve Born-Computational Art Project
- Cody Carvel, Digital Scholarship Technologist
- Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- Patrick Rashleigh, Head of Digital Scholarship Technology Services
- Khanh Vo, Digital Humanities Specialist
- Hilary Wang, Digital Archivist
- 2 to 3 p.m – Born-Digital Publications: New Scholarly Forms, New Models for Collaboration
- Eric Brandt, Director, University of Virginia Press
- Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- Donald J. Waters, Senior Scholar, Coalition for Networked Information and Vice President, Engineering Information Foundation
- Nadine Zimmerli, Editor in Chief, University of Virginia Press
- Moderator: Kevin McLaughlin, George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, Dean Emeritus of the Faculty
- 3 to 3:15 p.m. – Break
- 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. – Diversifying Digital Publishing: Cross-Organizational Support for Scholars & Librarians
- Sara Jo Cohen, Editorial Director, University of Michigan Press
- Marco Robinson, Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice, Prairie View A & M University
- La Tanya Rogers, Interim Dean, School of Humanities & Behavioral Social Sciences, Fisk University
- Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director, University of Michigan Press
- Moderator: Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications
- 4:15 p.m. – Closing Remarks and Toast
- Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
- Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship