CDL Directors and Managers

CDL Program Directors

Laine Farley, Interim Executive Director
Ivy Anderson, Collection Development & Management
Patricia (Trisha) Cruse, Preservation Services
Rosalie Lack, Digital Special Collections
Patricia Martin, Bibliographic Services
Catherine Mitchell, eScholarship Publishing Group

CDL Service Managers

Cate Hutton, Business Services
Ellen Meltzer, Information Services
John Ober, Infrastructure & Application Support Services
Felicia Poe, Assessment, Design & Production Services
Joan Starr, Project Planning & Resource Allocation Services

CDL Program Directors

Laine Farley
Interim Executive Director

Responsibilities: Laine is responsible for the direction, development, and management of the California Digital Library on an interim basis until the position of University Librarian and Executive Director is filled.

Background: Laine has been with the CDL since its inception in 1997, most recently serving as Director of Digital Library Services and Deputy University Librarian. Previously, 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.

Education: Laine holds a B.A. in liberal arts (Plan II) and an M.L.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ivy Anderson
Director, Collection Development & Management Program

Responsibilities: Ivy coordinates and provides leadership to the selection, integration, and management of licensed digital information for the CDL. She is also responsible for the systemwide negotiation and licensing of all shared digital materials for the UC libraries.

Background: Prior to joining the CDL in December 2005, Ivy was the Program Manager, E-Resource Management and Licensing at the Harvard University Library, where she managed the acquisition and licensing of shared digital resources and served as a consultant to Harvard libraries on issues related to electronic publishing and the licensing of electronic information. While at Harvard, Ivy was a major contributor to the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative, and was also chiefly responsible for the design of a local e-resource management system at Harvard. Prior to 1998, Ivy served as Head of Information Systems at the Brandeis University Libraries, leading that organization's Electronic Library Initiative. Earlier positions at Brandeis covered a range of professional activities including systems, access services, selection, cataloging, and reference work.

Education: Ivy holds a B.A in music from New York University and an M.L.S. from Simmons College. Before acquiring her library degree, Ivy pursued doctoral studies in music history and theory at Brandeis University.

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Patricia (Trisha) Cruse
Director, Preservation Services Program

Responsibilities: Trisha is responsible for overseeing all activities relating to digital preservation, which include establishing a UC libraries digital preservation repository and evaluating methods for the persistent management of web-based materials.

Background: Trisha has an extensive background in library digital services. Before coming to the UC system, she served as a Social Sciences Reference Librarian, Information Technologies Specialist, and Electronic Services Librarian at Louisiana State University. At UC San Diego, she spent five years in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library and served on several systemwide committees and task forces. Trisha first came to the CDL in 2000 to manage the Government Information and Social Science Data program, successfully leading the development of the Counting California service.

Education: Trisha holds a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature and an M.L.I.S. from UC Berkeley.

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Rosalie Lack
Director, Digital Special Collections Program

Responsibilities: Rosalie is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction and overseeing the operational management of the California Digital Library's Digital Special Collections Program, which includes the following curated collections: Online Archive of California (OAC); Calisphere (including California Cultures and JARDA); Counting California; and the UC Image Service. She also oversees activities related to data consultancy and ingest for CDL digital collections, including OAC, Calisphere, and the Local History Digital Resources Program (LHDRP).

Background: Rosalie joined the CDL in 1999 as the Evaluation and Instruction Analyst focusing on designing and implementing evaluation plans for CDL initiatives. In 2004, Rosalie became the Public Content Manager responsible for CDL's public content services (Calisphere and Counting California). Rosalie has been the Director of Digital Special Collections since July 2006.

Education: Rosalie holds a B.A. in French and Italian from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in Information Management from UC Berkeley.

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Patricia Martin
Director, Bibliographic Services Program

Responsibilities: Patricia is responsible for a full range of bibliographic and interlibrary loan services, including the Melvyl Union Catalog, Request, and UC-eLinks. She also oversees the development of the electronic resource management service (the software development and operations required to support collection development and management activities) and metasearch. In 2005 Patricia was appointed to the UC Bibliographic Services Task Force, and continues to work on next-generation bibliographic services in her role on the UC/OCLC pilot project Implementation Team.

Background: Prior to joining the CDL in January 2005, Patricia was a program manager at Microsoft, working on handwriting recognition for the Tablet PC. After joining Microsoft in 1993, Patricia worked on a number of projects, including natural language interface to Help in Office 2005 (aka Mr. Clippy), the first version of MSN Search, and speech recognition. Prior to 1993, Patricia worked as a programmer at CGNET, a Menlo Park based consulting firm for the World Bank, and as a project manager for Knowledge Access, Int'l., transferring the Bank's library holdings on rice production to CD-ROM. During high school, Patricia worked as a page in her hometown library, and was officially known as "Patti Page".

Education: Patricia holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts (Classical Civilization and Biology (minor)) from Cornell University, and an M.L.I.S. degree from UCLA.

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Catherine Mitchell
Acting Director, eScholarship Publishing Group

Responsibilities: Catherine Mitchell is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning and development of eScholarship Publishing Services at the CDL. Launched in May 2000, the eScholarship Program seeks to provide low-cost, alternative publication services for the UC community, support widespread distribution of the materials that result from research and teaching at UC, and foster new models of scholarly publishing through development and application of advanced technologies. In addition to supporting the eScholarship Repository, CDL's Publishing Services are increasingly offered through collaborative projects with the University of California Press, and are a part of UC's broader effort to ensure a sustainable scholarly publishing system in the service of research and teaching.

Background: Catherine joined the CDL in 2006 as Manager of Publishing Services. Prior to that, she worked as Web Director at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, overseeing the creation of, among other things, an online audio archive of significant public affairs speeches delivered at the club over the past 100 years. Her experience in scholarly publishing includes time spent on the other side of the academic house as a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature. Catherine has been the Acting Director of the eScholarship Publishing Group since November 2007.

Education: Catherine holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English Literature from UC Berkeley.

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CDL Service Managers

Cate Hutton
Director, Business Services

Responsibilities: Cate directs the business activities of the California Digital Library, including overseeing the library's budget, human resources, licensing and purchasing, and contract and grant administration functions. Cate is responsible for short-term and long-term financial planning and analysis at the CDL and provides expertise to the CDL's Executive Director and program managers on the development of business models and the planning of strategic partnerships. She oversees the CDL's relationships with parties outside of the University, including developing mutually beneficial service arrangements with a variety of educational, cultural, governmental, and private sector partners, as well as ensuring the complete and correct execution of licenses and other agreements with content providers and other third parties.

Background: In addition to her governmental relations work at the UC Office of the President, Cate's background includes positions as a research manager in a strategic planning practice at Accenture and as an American Library Association Library Fellow on assignment in Tibet. She joined the CDL in 1999.

Education: Cate holds a B.A. from Middlebury College in philosophy and an M.L.I.S. from Berkeley. She also undertook graduate work in Tibetan language and literature at the University of Virginia. Cate has pursued additional professional training in strategic planning, business analysis and forecasting, and negotating via Stanford Graduate School of Business, Anderson Consulting Management School, and the Association of Research Libraries.

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Ellen Meltzer
Information Services

Responsibilities: Ellen is responsible for leading the Information Services group at CDL. The group provides direct and indirect user support for a variety of CDL programs and services and is also responsible for the areas of general CDL education and outreach to the campus libraries.

Background: Ellen joined the CDL in 2001 to work on the Melvyl Catalog and journal article database transitions. She became head of CDL Information Services in January 2006. Ellen's career has been devoted to library public services. Prior to coming to the CDL, Ellen was, most recently, head of the Teaching Library and coordinator of instructional services in the UC Berkeley Library. Previous positions at Berkeley included reference and collection development librarian, Moffitt Library; Bibliography 1 instructor in the UCB Library School; assistant to the Associate University Librarian for Public Service; head of reference and collection development in Moffitt Library; Acting Head, Moffitt Library.

Education: Ellen holds a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. with a specialization in College and Research Libraries, both from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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John Ober
Manager, Infrastructure & Application Support Services

Responsibilities: John is responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and operations of the common enterprise technology - the distributed Computing and Storage Resource Center - that supports all CDL program and service areas.

Background: John has been with the CDL since 1998, most recently serving as Director of its Office of Scholarly Communication. He served as CDL's Interim Director of Digital Library Technologies for a year and draws upon that and related previous experience at UC Berkeley and CSU Monterey Bay in fulfilling his current responsibilities. John began his career as an assistant professor focusing on information systems development and management at UC Berkeley's School of Library and Information Studies.

Education: John holds Masters degrees from the University of Houston and UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Systems, also from UC Berkeley.

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Felicia Poe
Assessment, Design & Production Services

Responsibilities: Felicia manages the CDL team responsible for user needs assessment, usability testing, user experience design, graphic design, and web production services.

Background: After joining the CDL in 2001, Felicia was assigned responsibility for user interface and service design, including overseeing the development of the Melvyl Catalog user interface and contributions to CDL's scholarly publishing program. Long an advocate of user-centered design and assessment as key organizational activities, in 2004 she was chosen to formally establish the CDL assessment and evaluation program. In 2006 her responsibilities expanded to include management of information architecture and web production services. Before joining the University in 2001, Felicia worked in legal and corporate information services.

Education: Felicia holds a B.A. from San Francisco State University in International Relations and an M.I.S. from Indiana University Bloomington with a concentration on human-computer interaction.

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Joan Starr
Project Planning & Resource Allocation Services

Responsibilities: Joan provides advisory assistance to CDL's project managers, and supports CDL project planning, evaluation and resource allocation processes and practices. She also advises the University Librarian's Cabinet in strategic planning, resource allocation, capacity planning, and personnel decisions.

Background: Joan came to CDL in 2006 from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where she was a Senior Project Consultant in the Information Technology Services Department. She helped create a central project management function at the Bank, including the evaluation and implementation of a software tool for project management. She has also worked with project managers to capture project documentation and enable measures of progress.

Education: Joan holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University, and an M.L.I.S. from San José State University.

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