Laine Farley
Program/Service
California Digital Library Management
Title
Executive Director
Responsibilities
In her role as executive director, Laine provides leadership to the CDL and determines its strategic direction. She is responsible for the organization's overall management, including planning, policy development, and resource allocation.
Education
B.A. in Liberal Arts (Plan II), University of Texas at Austin
M.L.S., University of Texas at Austin
Background
Laine has been with the CDL since its inception in 1997 and assumed the position of executive director in 2008. Previously, her roles at the CDL have included positions as director of digital library services and deputy university librarian. In addition, she was the user services coordinator and the coordinator of bibliographic policy and services at the UC Division of Library Automation. She has also been a reference librarian and coordinator of bibliographic instruction at UC Riverside, and head of the humanities department at the Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Throughout her career, Laine has worked on a wide range of projects involving bibliographic database design, user interface design, cataloging theory and practice, interlibrary loan processes and standards, government information, digital images and archival finding aids. Laine has a special interest in identifying emerging service needs in support of scholarship in a digital realm, and developing innovative solutions that blend traditional and new service environments.
Committees / Affiliations
- HathiTrust Research Center Advisory Board, 2011-
- HathiTrust Executive Committee
- Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee (SLASIAC)
- UC Next Generation Melvyl Pilot, Executive Committee
- UC Next Generation Technical Services, Executive Committee
- UC Shared Research Computing Service Pilot, Oversight Board
- UC Global Health Institute, Information, Communications and Technology Task Force
- University Committee on Library and Scholarly Information, Consultant
- University Librarians
Papers / Presentations
- "From Preservation to Curation at the California Digital Library", Digital Cultural Heritage on line: Trusted Digital Repositories and Trusted Professionals, Florence, Italy, December 2012 [PPT] [PDF]
- "Data Management Planning Tool" with Sherry Lake, [PPT] Coalition for Networked Information, December 2011
- "Dataset Identification and Citation: DataCite and EZID" [PDF]
- "It Takes Two to Digitize: Academic and Public Libraries Partner in the Local History Digital Resources Program" [PPT]
Creating a Blueprint for a National Digital Public Library, sponsored by IMLS and Los Angeles Public Library, November 2011 - "Library Services Supporting Data Intensive Research", UC Vice Chancellors for Research and CIOs Summit, UCLA, November 2011
- "California Digital Library Goals and Challenges", UC Irvine Library, June 2011
- "California Digital Library", Oxford University Library, December 2010
- "California Digital Library’s Digital Strategies", Leaders Forum, Internet Archive, October 2009 [PPT]
- Next Generation Melvyl: OCLC WorldCat Local Pilot, University Committee on Library and Scholarly Information, October 16, 2009
