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NDSA Announces 2024 Slate of Candidates for Coordinating Committee

NDSA is happy to announce the 2024 slate of Coordinating Committee (CC) candidates. Elections will soon be held for three (3) CC members. The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. The successful candidates will each serve a three-year term. Ballots will be sent to membership organization contacts shortly.

Kari May

Kari is a full-time digital preservationist for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. She became one of the university’s NDSA representatives and a member of the Excellence (Innovation) Awards Working Group (EAWG) in 2019. In 2023, Kari became a Co-Chair for the EAWG and has sought to increase transparency and ensure equity and inclusion in all aspects of EAWG processes by initiating new activities and encouraging more standardization in completing and documenting the awards cycle. Kari has also been a member of the NDSA DigiPres Planning Committee (PC) for 2022 and the 2023 Storage Survey Working Group and is currently a member of the Events Strategy Working Group. Her work with other professional organizations includes Co-Chair of the 2025 BPE Program Committee, member of DLF PC 2020-2024, member of LD4 PC 2022, Digital Preservation Coalition Digital Preservation Awards guest Judge 2022, and member of SAA Collection Management Steering Committee 2023-2025.

Kari feels that digital stewardship challenges continue to expand and require professionals to provide creative solutions supported by limited resources. Working with the Coordinating Committee would offer an opportunity to encourage valuable connections throughout the field of digital stewardship and offer strategies to foster collaboration to maximize benefits for all.

Matt McEniry

Matt McEniry is the Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at Texas Tech University Libraries. The Lab provides digital preservation, digitization, and data management services for TTU and Lubbock organizations. His areas of expertise include project management, digital preservation, digitization, metadata description, data management, and copyright curation. Matt is currently working on a publication describing the complex working relationships between archives, collection owners, and digitization labs. He has previously presented on his work with community partners and their digital collections at DigiPres 2023 and DigiPres 2024 Redux.

Matt first became involved in the NDSA in 2013 with the Infrastructure Working Group and helped with the Innovation awards until 2015. In 2023 he served on the DigiPres 2023 Planning Committee and is the current co-chair of the Excellence Awards Working Group. He along with his co-chair, Kari May, helped to successfully plan and present the awards at DigiPres 2023. Having worked with the Strategy Team to help update NDSA’s Foundational Strategy, Matt wants to be able to help see these goals and strategies through as part of the Coordinating Committee. He wants to learn from the committee and engage with NDSA on a broader level, especially during this time of transition.

Margo Padilla

Margo Padilla is the Digital Preservation Librarian at New York University where she unifies strategies and processes across the Division of Libraries to facilitate the preservation of digital resources. Prior to NYU, she was the Digital Archivist at the New-York Historical Society where she led the development of infrastructure for collecting, preserving, and providing access to born-digital collections. Margo recently served as a member of the National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group born-digital accessioning and digital preservation subgroup, and previously participated in Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions.

Margo received her MLIS with a concentration in Management, Digitization, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Records from San José State University and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Margo is interested in furthering the conversation on reliance on contingent labor in cultural heritage organizations, as well as advancing digital preservation best practices that can be realistically implemented by differently resourced institutions. She brings active engagement to committee work and believes the value of NDSA membership is derived from the collective dedication of the digital preservation community, as exemplified by the Interest and Working Groups.

Max Prud’homme

Patrice-Andre (Max) Prud’homme, PhD, is the Director of Digital Curation at Oklahoma State University. He provides leadership and management in the areas of digital curation, preservation, and discovery of digital resources, developing and applying digital and computational methods to augment the value of digital archival materials. He recently served on the 2023 NDSA Storage Survey Working Group. He served on the NDSA Membership Working Group, collaborating on writing membership engagement proposals, and on the 2021 NDSA Fixity Survey Working Group. He has also served as a Project Lead, instructor, and advisor in Digital POWRR since its inception in 2011, and helped bring one of the Digital POWRR Institutes to the Oklahoma State University campus in June 2024. He also serves as Digital Archivist for a five-year grant program funded by the Senate Historical Office. He is the former Head of Digital Collections at Illinois State University. Max looks forward to advancing the NDSA mission by advocating for greater collaboration and participation with other communities (including engaging students and new professionals). His goal is to augment sustainable knowledge-sharing in the area of digital stewardship to benefit the greater digital preservation community.

Tuelo Ntlotlang

Tuelo Ntlotlang is a Subject Librarian at Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) Library, who is actively engaged in open science and digital scholarship initiatives. She is enthusiastic about open access and digital preservation activities in BIUST. Tuelo has sold the open science movement to BIUST research community, and then established an institutional repository (BIUSTRE) that focuses on ensuring that BIUST intellectual output remains accessible to the global community. She is also actively involved in advocating for adoption of open science and open access at a national level, working closely with Botswana Open Data Policy Working Group as a secretariat and Botswana Library Consortium Board Members as a treasurer. Furthermore, Tuelo is a standing committee member of IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section serving in the webinar team, where webinars are organized to address the new trends in academic and research libraries globally, including open science and digital preservation.

She is pleased to report that she contributed to IFLA ARL, receiving the Dynamic Unit and Impact Award at the IFLA Conference in 2021. Therefore, Tuelo believes that her strong academic and intellectual abilities coupled with her experiences and skills acquired position her in good stead to perform well on the NDSA Coordinating Committee (CC). Tuelo holds a Master’s degree in library and information studies from University of Botswana. She vows to bring experience and welcomes the opportunity to engage in an environment that she will work with diverse community of peers and colleagues in NDSA Coordinating Committee (CC). Tuelo understands that time and effort will be required to understand, support and represent the interests of the group, therefore she is willing to make that effort.

Kathryn Slover

Kathryn Slover has been the Digital Archivist at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries since August 2020. In this position she leads the exploration, evaluation, and implementation of methods, tools, and systems related to the preservation of born-digital and digitized content. She manages the web archiving program at UTA as well as works with donors and record creators to transfer digital materials to the archives. In addition to her digital preservation work, she also leads the departments collecting efforts related to LGBTQ+ materials in Tarrant County.

Kathryn earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Redlands in 2014 and obtained a Master of Arts in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University in 2016. Prior to her current role at UTA, she previously served as the Electronic Processing Archivist at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (from 2018-2020) and as the Archives Assistant at the Rutherford County Archives (from 2016-2018). She has been a Certified Archivist since 2020 and recently served on the NDSA Storage Survey Working Group from 2023-2024.

Sylvia Umana

Sylvia is a dedicated Digital Collections Librarian at the Namibia University of Science and Technology Library with a deep passion for her role in preserving and managing digital assets. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Namibia in 2020, where her area of research focused on the digital preservation of institutional repositories. In her role as the digital collections’ librarian, Sylvia worked on various digitization projects including collaborations with the National Archives of Namibia and Desert Research Foundation of Namibia. She is committed to advancing her knowledge on active digital preservation, and thus continues to explore as she aims to actively implement these in her organization.

With a strong commitment to safeguarding digital collections for future generations, she is eager to expand her expertise and contribute to the evolving field of digital preservation and information management especially in developing countries such as Namibia. Her enthusiasm for learning and her attention to detail drive her mission to ensure the longevity and accessibility of valuable digital resources

Call for Nominations to the NDSA Coordinating Committee

NDSA will be electing three members to its Coordinating Committee (CC) this year, with terms starting in January 2025. CC members serve a three year term and participate in a monthly call to help guide and sustain the organization’s strategy and direction. The Coordinating Committee provides strategic leadership to the organization in coordination with group co-chairs. NDSA is a diverse community with a critical mission, and we seek candidates to join the CC that bring a variety of cultures and orientations, skills, perspectives and experiences, to bear on leadership initiatives. Working on the CC is an opportunity to contribute your leadership for the community as a whole, while collaborating with a wonderful group of dynamic and motivated professionals.

If you are interested in joining the NDSA Coordinating Committee (CC) or want to nominate another member, please complete the nomination form by 11:59pm EDT Friday, August 30, 2024, which asks for the name, e-mail address, brief bio/candidate statement (nominee-approved), and NDSA-affiliated institution of the nominee. We particularly encourage and welcome nominations of people from underrepresented groups and sectors.

As members of the NDSA, we join together to form a consortium of more than 270 partnering organizations, including businesses, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, professional associations and universities, all engaged in the long-term preservation of digital information. Committed to preserving access to our national digital heritage, we each offer our diverse skills, perspectives, experiences, cultures and orientations to achieve what we could not do alone.

The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. More information about the duties and responsibilities of CC members can be found at the NDSA’s Leadership Page.

We hope you will give this opportunity serious consideration and we value your continued contributions and leadership in our community.

Any questions can be directed to ndsa [dot] digipres [at] gmail [dot] com.

Shira Peltzman Elected 2024 NDSA Vice Chair

Shira Peltzman, in her second year as a member of the NDSA Coordinating Committee, has been elected by the NDSA Leadership as its 2024 Vice Chair and 2025 Chair. The Vice Chair’s duties include:

Managing the annual process to elect new CC members.
Facilitating the new member application process.
Convening quarterly meetings for the Co-Chairs of Working Groups and Interest Groups.
Participating in quarterly meetings between NDSA and CLIR.
Along with the Chair, ensuring the NDSA Code of Conduct is carried out.

Shira Peltzman (1st CC term, 2023-2025) is the Associate Director for Preservation Digital Strategies at Yale University Library where she provides leadership and direction for digital preservation, media preservation, and preservation imaging. In her role she serves as an advocate for sustainable stewardship and works with stakeholders across campus to champion ambitious preservation initiatives that support enduring access to Yale’s digital collections.

Please join me in congratulating Shira on this new role!

Announcing Incoming NDSA Coordinating Committee Members for 2024-2026

Please join me in welcoming the three newly elected Coordinating Committee members: Michael Barera, Chelsea Denault, and Jessica Venlet. Their terms begin January 1, 2024 and run through December 31, 2026. Read more about their backgrounds and interest below.

Michael Barera

Michael Barera has been the Assistant Archivist and Digitization Specialist at the Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS) Research Library since June 2022. This position ranges broadly from traditional archival responsibilities such as digitization, processing, and reference to unique and often innovative programs and projects related to Milwaukee history, including creating questions for and calling Milwaukee History Trivia Nights at local breweries and leading historical kayak tours on the Milwaukee River. Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in history from the University of Michigan in 2012 and obtained a Master of Science in Information (MSI) in both Archives and Records Management (ARM) and Preservation of Information (PI) from the University of Michigan School of Information in 2014. Prior to taking his current position at MCHS, he previously served as an Assistant Archivist at the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries (from 2015 to 2019) and as the University and Labor Archivist at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries (from 2019 to 2022). He has been a Certified Archivist since 2016.

Michael ran for NDSA Coordinating Committee for two primary reasons. The first is to bring the perspective of a small but innovative county historical society to the committee. The second is to learn from the committee and engage more deeply with NDSA as a whole, with the ultimate goal of learning more born-digital and digitization best practices that can be realistically implemented at MCHS and thus raise its level of practice.

Chelsea Denault

Chelsea leads the Michigan Digital Preservation Network, a program of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services with support from the Library of Michigan. As the MDPN’s Coordinator, she works to build a community-centered statewide service focused on leveraging shared resources and expertise to make digital preservation affordable and accessible to all cultural memory institutions. As part of her efforts, Chelsea provides guidance and training on digital preservation in Michigan and leads the MDPN’s policy development and member recruitment. She also serves as the PI for the MDPN’s IMLS-funded grant to explore simplifying digital preservation workflows and provide training for non-technical users at under-resourced institutions in Michigan and beyond. Chelsea has served the NDSA on the DigiPres Conference Planning Committee (2021-2023) and the Long-Term Conference Planning Working Group. She also represents the MDPN in the Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) Community, and contributes to the Cross-PLN Technical Committee and the Shared Messaging Group. Before joining the MDPN, Chelsea was a public historian engaged in community outreach and collections work, and she holds an MA and a PhD in Public History/US History from Loyola University Chicago. Chelsea is guided by the MDPN’s commitment to small, underserved organizations, and plans to represent their needs on the Coordinating Committee.

Jessica Venlet

Jessica Venlet works as the Assistant University Archivist for Digital Records and Records Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. In this role, she is responsible for a variety of things related to both records management and digital preservation. In particular, she leads the processing and management of born-digital archival materials.

Jessica is drawn to participation with NDSA because of how valuable the resources and network are to her work and to the profession overall. She has recently participated in working groups for the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Reboot (assessment subgroup), the 2021 NDSA Staffing Survey, and the 2023 NDSA Excellence Awards. She is excited to join the Coordinating Committee and contribute to the continued development of the NDSA organization and all its associated programs and working groups.

We are also grateful to all of the very talented, qualified candidates who participated in this election.

We are indebted to our outgoing Coordinating Committee members, Elizabeth England, Jes Neal, and Linda Tadic, for their service and many contributions. To sustain a vibrant, robust community of practice, we rely on and deeply value the contributions of all members, including those who took part in voting.

~ Bethany Scott, Vice Chair, on behalf of the NDSA Coordinating Committee

NDSA Announces 2023 Slate of Candidates for Coordinating Committee

NDSA is happy to announce the 2023 slate of Coordinating Committee (CC) candidates. Elections will soon be held for three (3) CC members. The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. The successful candidates will each serve a three year term. Ballots will be sent to membership organization contacts in the coming weeks. (Only one vote per organization.)

Michael Barera

Michael is running for NDSA Coordinating Committee for two primary reasons. The first is to bring the perspective of a small but innovative county historical society to the committee. The second is to learn from the committee and engage more deeply with NDSA as a whole, with the ultimate goal of learning more born-digital and digitization best practices that can be realistically implemented at MCHS and thus raise its level of practice.

Chelsea Denault

Chelsea leads the Michigan Digital Preservation Network, a program of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services with support from the Library of Michigan. As the MDPN’s Coordinator, she works to build a community-centered statewide service focused on leveraging shared resources and expertise to make digital preservation affordable and accessible to all cultural memory institutions. As part of her efforts, Chelsea provides guidance and training on digital preservation in Michigan and leads the MDPN’s policy development and member recruitment. She also serves as the PI for the MDPN’s IMLS-funded grant to explore simplifying digital preservation workflows and provide training for non-technical users at under-resourced institutions in Michigan and beyond. Chelsea has served the NDSA on the DigiPres Conference Planning Committee (2021-2023) and the Long-Term Conference Planning Working Group. She also represents the MDPN in the Private LOCKSS Network (PLN) Community, and contributes to the Cross-PLN Technical Committee and the Shared Messaging Group. Before joining the MDPN, Chelsea was a public historian engaged in community outreach and collections work, and she holds an MA and a PhD in Public History/US History from Loyola University Chicago. Chelsea is guided by the MDPN’s commitment to small, underserved organizations, and is interested in representing their needs on the Coordinating Committee.

Brenna Edwards

Brenna Edwards is currently Manager for Digital Archives at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she was Project Digital Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She has a BS from Tennessee Tech University and an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Outside of work, she can be found either reading, knitting, or watching movies – some of them at the same time!

Having been involved with the 2022 NDSA Staffing Survey and helping plan the 2022 NDSA Conference, Brenna is interested in joining the Coordinating Committee to help further expand the goals of the organization. She has also recently worked with an on-campus digital preservation group focusing on the NDSA Levels and how they can be best implemented across campus. Brenna has also served as co-leader for the DLF Born Digital Description in Finding Aids subgroup of Born Digital Access Working Group to document various ways born digital materials are described in finding aids across a variety of institutions.

Thomas Pulhamus

Tom is the Digital Technology Librarian at the University of Delaware, where he has worked for the past fifteen years. He started as a salaried staff member before his position was professionalized in 2018 and he assumed his current title. Tom works on various facets of digitization and digital preservation for the UD Library, Museums and Press. Currently that work includes developing a digital preservation plan for the UD Library, Museums and Press as well as incorporating reparative justice and harm reduction practices into digitization and digital preservation workflows. Tom is deeply interested in issues of representation and access in digitization and digital preservation and sees the chance to serve on the Coordinating Committee as an opportunity to advance the key operational values of inclusiveness and collaboration. He has served on the DigiPres Planning Committee since 2020 and is also currently a member of the Long Term Conference Planning Working Group. Tom has a BA from Rutgers University, an MA in English from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Danielle Spalenka

Danielle Spalenka is the Digital Preservation Librarian at Indiana University. She provides vision and leadership in the development of digital preservation strategies for departments on the IU campus. She has over 10 years of experience providing education, outreach, consultation, and assessments related to preservation and digital preservation, with a focus on smaller institutions. She has been involved in the Digital POWRR Project in various roles since 2013, including instructor and Project Director. Danielle holds a BA in history from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN), and earned her MA-LIS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jessica Venlet

Jessica is drawn to participation with NDSA because of how valuable the resources and network are to her work and to the profession overall. She has recently participated in working groups for the 2019 Levels of Digital Preservation Reboot (assessment subgroup), the 2021 NDSA Staffing Survey, and the 2023 NDSA Excellence Awards. She is excited about the possibility of joining the coordinating committee and contributing to the continued development of the NDSA organization and all its associated programs and working groups.

Announcing Incoming NDSA Coordinating Committee Members for 2021- 2023

Please join me in welcoming the two newly elected Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth England and Jessica Neal, and one re-elected member, Linda Tadic. Their terms begin January 1, 2021 and run through December 31, 2023.

Elizabeth England is a Digital Preservation Specialist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, where she participates in strategic and operational initiatives and services for the preservation of born-digital and digitized records. She previously was the Digital Archivist and a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Johns Hopkins University. Elizabeth currently serves on the NDSA Communications and Publications group and the DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee.

Jessica Neal, was recently named the Sterling A. Brown Archivist at Williams College, having previously been the College Archivist at Hampshire College. Additionally, Jes is a workshop facilitator with DocNow, and a member of NDSA’s DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee.

Linda Tadic has served on the Coordinating Committee for the past two years. As an educator, she incorporates NDSA reports and projects into her courses in the UCLA Information Studies department. Additionally, Linda brings her diverse experience working in non-profit and educational archives, managing digital asset management systems, and founding Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service provider.

We are also grateful to the very talented, qualified individuals who participated in this election.

We are indebted to our outgoing Coordinating Committee members, Karen Cariani, Bradley Daigle (Chair), Sibyl Schaefer, and Paige Walker, for their service and many contributions. To sustain a vibrant, robust community of practice, we rely on and deeply value the contributions of all members, including those who took part in voting.

Meet the NDSA Coordinating Committee Candidates for the 2020 Election

This year we have four people who have thrown their hats into the ring to run for the NDSA’s Coordinating Committee (CC), of which we will elect three. The CC is dedicated to ensuring a strategic direction for NDSA, to the advancement of NDSA activities to achieve community goals, and to further communication among digital preservation professionals and NDSA member organizations. The CC is responsible for reviewing and approving NDSA membership applications and publications; updating eligibility standards for membership in the alliance, and other strategic documents; engaging with stakeholders in the community; and working to enroll new members committed to our core mission. The successful candidates will each serve a three year term.

Each member organization will receive an email invitation to the ballot in the coming weeks. But right now let’s meet the candidates!

Elizabeth England, Digital Preservation Specialist, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Elizabeth England is a Digital Preservation Specialist at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, where she participates in strategic and operational initiatives and services for the preservation of born-digital and digitized records. She previously was the Digital Archivist and a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Johns Hopkins University. Elizabeth currently serves on the NDSA Communications and Publications group and the DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee. As a past recipient of the NDSA Future Steward award, Elizabeth is interested in advancing NDSA as a resource and community for students and early-career digital stewards, and strengthening the Alliance by increasing representation and inclusion of smaller institutions and colleagues from groups marginalized in the field. Elizabeth is interested in joining the Coordinating Committee to help further realize this work as well as priorities identified in the 2020 Agenda, particularly around the value of digital preservation labor and exploring sustainability models for digital stewardship educational and training programs.

Jessica C. Neal, College Archivist, Hampshire College

Jessica is a Black, queer, millennial archivist and memory worker from Mobile, AL. In addition to her work in academia, Jessica has centered her career on building frameworks around the ethics of documentation that focus on Black-led social movements, art, literature, and struggle throughout the diaspora. Specifically, she is committed to partnering with communities of color to recover, document, and maintain autonomy over the processes in which their narratives and narrative art are preserved and accessed, particularly through the oral history tradition and digital environments. Jessica also has experience working in academic libraries and archives, historical societies, federal government, and private sector organizations. She is currently the College Archivist at Hampshire College, a workshop facilitator with DocNow and a member of NDSA’s DigiPres 2020 Planning Committee.

Linda Tadic, Founder/CEO, Digital Bedrock

Linda has served on the Coordinating Committee for the past two years. During this time, she has promoted the Levels of Digital Preservation to broader communities, in particular to media and entertainment organizations and non-academic institutions. She was a co-presenter on the Levels at the 2019 conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), of which she is a founding member and former President . As an educator, she incorporates NDSA reports and projects into her courses in the UCLA Information Studies department, and has previously served as an adjunct in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Linda brings to the CC her diverse experience working in non-profit and educational archives, managing digital asset management systems, and founding Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service provider. She has over 30 years of experience in leading preservation, metadata, and digital production operations at organizations such as ARTstor, HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, and the Getty Research Institute. If re-elected, Linda will continue promoting NDSA, its activities, and digital preservation concepts to new potential constituencies. Linda participates in the Infrastructure Working Group.

Frederick Zarndt, Consultant, Digital Divide Data / Recollect CMS

Frederick has worked with historic and contemporary newspaper, journal, magazine, book, and records digitization since computer speeds, software, technology, storage, and costs first made it practical. He has experience in every aspect of digitization projects including project requirements development, project management, conversion operations (both in-house and outsourced), acceptance testing, software development for production and delivery of digital data, and digital preservation. Frederick has been a member of the IFLA Governing Board, as well as, Chair of its Division II and former secretary and chair of the IFLA News Media Section. For 8 years, he was the administrative chair of the ALTO XML Editorial Board. Frederick has more than 25 years’ experience in software development and is a member of ACM and IEEE and a Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP). He is a member of ALA and IFLA. Frederick has Master’s Degrees in Computer Science and Physics.