Tara L. Dirst

Technical Coordinator
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
and
Northern Illinois University Libraries Digitization Unit
January 1999 - April 2007

tdirst@niu.edu

Founders Library
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115

Primary Responsibilities:

• Establishment of standards with Lincoln Digitization Project Partners
• Liaison with systems administrators at partner institutions
• Supervision of local and remote digitization operations
• Construction and maintenance of Lincoln/Net databases
• Maintenance of Lincoln/Net server.

Education:

M.S., 2000, Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

M.A., 1998, American History/Women's Studies,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

B.A., 1995, American History/Secondary Certification,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

B.S., 1994, Political Science,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL