Drew E. VandeCreek

Director
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, and Northern Illinois University Libraries Digitization Unit

drew@niu.edu

Founders Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115

Primary Responsibilities:

• Coordination of Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project activities with partner institutions, including selection of material for digitization and establishment of standards for digital capture and cataloging of material.
  
  
• Development and maintenance of Lincoln/Net World Wide Web interface, including HTML development; database development (in cooperation with the University of Chicago Humanities Computing Initiative); and writing interpretive materials for Lincoln/Net.
  
  
• Project administration, including fundraising and grant-writing; securing rights for materials used on Lincoln/Net World Wide Web site; convening meetings of the Project's Advisory Board; and selection of consultants.
  
  
• Service as Digitization Unit Director, Northern Illinois University Founders Library.

Education:

Ph.D. 1996 American History University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

B.A. 1986 American Studies, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.

Professional Experience:

1998 - present - Director, Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project and Digitization Unit, Founders Library, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.

1995-1998 - Research Associate, The Valley of the Shadow Project, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

1997 - Instructor in American History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

1995 - Instructor in American History, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Consulting:

1999 - Presenter "Digitization Projects: Techniques and Procedures for Getting Started" Workshop, Lincoln Trail Library System, Champaign, IL.

1998 - Panelist, Illinois State Library Digitization Videoconference, September 23, 1998.

1998 - Referee, Illinois State Library "Educate and Automate" Digitization Grant Competition.

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