Heather Christenson
Program/Service
Collection Development and Management
Title
Mass Digitization Project Manager
Responsibilities
Heather Christenson is the Mass Digitization Project Manager at the California Digital Library (CDL) and the Project Manager for the University of California's HathiTrust collaborative work. She is responsible for coordinating operations and planning across the UC Libraries' mass digitization projects, and plays an integral role in planning for services surrounding mass digitized content.
Education
B.A. Communications University of California, San Diego
M.L.I.S. University of California, Berkeley
Background
Previous to her work in mass digitization, Heather led the UC Libraries' system-wide ERMS implementation team, as well as the development of a prototype integrated search service. She has also contributed to UC's next generation catalog project, and CDL's early explorations of web crawling and OAI harvesting. For four years Heather led CDL's Resource Liaison Program, a UC-wide program of over 100 librarians charged with assessment of licensed electronic resources for technical performance and utility of user interfaces. Prior to joining CDL, Heather worked in the commercial world on web search tools. She has also served as the Assistant Head Librarian for the San Francisco Examiner, where she was heavily involved in news research and pioneering a digital image archive, as well as contributing to the early development of the SFGate news site by mapping news metadata into a filter tool that enabled faceted browsing. Prior to her work at the Examiner, she worked in government documents, and has been a law librarian, and a cataloger of collections as diverse as glass negatives and video.
