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I'm the interim director for the University of Florida's Digital Library Center, where we digitize materials for preservation and access, and use the digitized materials to create innovative projects, all of which are showcased online in the University of Florida Digital Collections. In my research, I'm interested in issues of defined spaces and contexts (textual, ethical, legal, cultural, temporal, chronological, geographical), as well as emerging and expanded spaces and contexts created by connections and relationships.
- Publications & Presentations: My full CV is online.
- Brief Biography:
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD, is the Interim Director of the University of Florida's Digital Library Center. She came to the Digital Library Center in 2007, and has taught undegraduate courses and workshops on digital media since 2000. She has published research articles on digital media, library and information science, education, Open Access, and literature. She recently co-edited a collection on digital representations of history and memory, Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory.
Her current projects include continued development of the UF Digital Collections (UFDC), including existing projects and initiating discussions for potential new projects and partners. She also serves as the technical director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean and co-principal investigator on America's Swamp: the Historical Everglades, a project to digitize six archival collections. Her current research explores issues related to digital collections and libraries, focusing on the cross-disciplinary issues of space, context, preservation, and access.