Helen Tibbo
Helen Tibbo | |
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![]() President elect of the Society of American Archivists | |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | President of the Society of American Archivists |
Helen Ruth Tibbo (born 1955) is an American archivist, professor and author writing about digital preservation in the archival profession.[1] At the University of North Carolina, she created and directed the first American master's degree on digital curation.[2] She is a past President of the Society of American Archivists[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Tibbo's ancestors include colonizers Miles Standish and John Alden.[3] She attended Bridgewater State College and graduated with a BA in English in 1977.[2][4] She taught junior college for several years before enrolling in graduate studies.[3] Her Master's is in Library Science from Indiana University in 1983.[4] She then attended the University of Maryland where she obtained an MA in American Studies and a PhD in Library and Information Science in 1989.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was "Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities".[3]
Career
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Tibbo joined the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science in 1989 where she taught archives, digital preservation, data curation and management.[2][5] In 2000, she began teaching Digital Preservation and Access, one of the first college courses to cover the topic.[3] Four years later she was appointed co-chair of the Digital Curation/Institutional Repositories Committee at the University of North Carolina, which involved the planning of UNC's institutional digital repository.[3]
She helped create "DigCCurr I and II" which developed the curriculum for archival graduate students.[2][6] In April 2007, the DigCCurr conference brought almost 300 participants with 100 speakers from 10 countries.[7] She also directed ESOPI-21 (Educating Stewards of Public Information in the 21st Century), which helps prepare students for work in shaping public policy and preserving government records and data.[2] Tibbo collaborates with other universities and institutions, including the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, Duke University, and the United Kingdom's Joint INformation Systems Committee and Digital Curation Center.[7][3][5]
Professional service
[edit]Tibbo is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and served as SAA Vice President from 2009 to 2010 and SAA President from 2010 to 2011.[2] She has been a member of various boards and committees, and co-founded the SAA Research Forum.[7] Tibbo also helped create a Digital Archives Specialist certificate program and helped update the Guidelines for Graduate Professional Archival Studies.[2]
Awards
[edit]- Society of American Archivists Fellow (August 2005) [7]
- Library of Congress Digital Pioneer (October 2001) [3]
- Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science (July 2010)
- Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University-Bloomington at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (June 2018)[4]
Select publications
[edit]- "Archival Reference Knowledge," The American Archivist with Wendy Duff and Elizabeth Yakel (2013)
- "The Economic Impact of Archives: Surveys of Users of Government Archives in Canada and the United States," The American Archivist with Elizabeth Yakel, Wendy Duff, Amber Crushing and Adam Kriesberg (2012)
- "Placing the Horse before the Cart: Conceptual and Technical Dimensions of Digital Curation," Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (2012)
- "The Development, Testing, and Evaluation of the Archival Metrics Toolkits," The American Archivist with Wendy Duff, Elizabeth Yakel, Joan Cherry, Aprille McKay, Magia Krause and Rebecka Sheffield (2010)
- "Standardized tools for assessment in archives and special collections," Performance Measurement and Metrics with Elizabeth Yakel (2010)
- "The Archival Metrics Toolkit: Development and implementation," Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology with Elizabeth Yakel, Aprille McKay and Wendy Duff (2009)
- "Developing curriculum for digital libraries and digital curation education: Reflections on synergies and divergencies," ASIST with Javed Mostafa, Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jerome McDonough and Carole L. Palmer (2008)
- "The Archival Metrics Toolkit: Development and implementation," ASIST with Elizabeth Yakel, Aprille McKay, Wendy Duff and Joan M. Cherry (2008)
- "Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories: Steps Toward Success," J. Digit. Inf. with Christopher A. Lee (2007)
- "Personal Email Management on the University Digital Desktop: User Behaviors vs. Archival Best Practices," ASIST with Megan A. Winget and Kimberley Chang (2006)
- "On the nature and importance of archiving in the digital age," Advances in Computers (2003)
- "Modeling the information-seeking behavior of social scientists: Ellis's study revisited," JASIST with Lokman I. Meho (2003)
- "Archival perspectives on the emerging digital library," Communications of the ACM (2001)
- "Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library: An Emerging Design," CoLIS with Diane H. Sonnenwald, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Bert J. Dempsey, Charles R. Viles and J. S. Smith (1999)
- "Freestyle vs. Boolean: A Comparison of Partial and Exact Match Retrieval Systems," Information Processing & Management with Lee Anne H. Paris (1998)
- "Review - The Art of Abstracting," Information Processing & Management (1997)
- "A Text Filter for the Automatic Identification of Empirical Articles," JASIS with Stephanie W. Haas and Jeremy Sugarman (1996)
- "Indexing for the Humanities," JASIS (1994)
References
[edit]- ^ "Helen Ruth Tibbo (1955-)." Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Ed. Jeffrey Muhr. Detroit: Gale, 2016. Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Gale. Illinois State University, Milner Lib.. 11 Feb. 2020 https://find.gale.com/bgmi/start.do?prodId=BGMI .
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Helen Tibbo | sils.unc.edu". sils.unc.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ashenfelder, Mike (2011-10-05). "Digital Preservation Pioneer: Helen Tibbo | The Signal". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ a b c "Helen Tibbo awarded IU ILS Distinguished Alumni Award | sils.unc.edu". sils.unc.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ a b "Helen Tibbo, Instructor". Coursera. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ "DigCCurr Carolina Digital Curation Curriculum Project". ils.unc.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ a b c d "Helen Tibbo | Society of American Archivists". www2.archivists.org. Retrieved 2020-02-05.