Monthly Archives: May 2013

Robert Kruse, Print Services Coordinator, Academic Technology Services

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Robert Kruse was selected as the new Print Services Coordinator in UTS Student Services (Pharos printing). Robert had been the Student Technology Support Coordinator in UTS for four years and prior to that worked for several years in desktop support for Housing. He has wide experience supporting not only a variety of technologies across our […]

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Keith Long, Enterprise Middleware Engineer IV, Integration

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Keith will be working with the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to integrate various applications. For the past 12 years, Keith worked for Velti, a provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology, in variety of roles, most recently as their senior security manager. He also worked as a platform engineering manager at Air2Web, a wireless application […]

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Vince Vaughn, Communications Specialist, Enterprise Services

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Vince comes to Emory to do moves, adds, and changes for voice, data, and wireless. His previous job was as a communications specialist with Venture NetComm in Lawrencville, GA, where he spent six years doing similar work. A UGA grad in Recreation, Vince was born in Covington, GA and went to high school at Newton […]

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The Evolution of Digital Scholarship

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My fellow Deputy CIO, Marc Overcash, joins me in this month’s update to help celebrate the evolution of digital scholarship at Emory. With the announcement of the merger of OIT and the University Library into a single operating division, we are happy to announce that a terrific group of Library IT staff is joining us […]

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Laura Akerman, Metadata Librarian, Core Systems

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Laura Akerman (pronounced “AY-ker-men”) is the Technology and Metadata Librarian and she has been at Woodruff Library since 1986. Laura has led or contributed to many projects to introduce new technologies and transform library metadata to provide new or better services. Before her time in the Library, Laura spent ten years in Human Resources at […]

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James Bias, Operating Systems Analyst, Sr., Digital Programs and Systems

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James has been at the Library for two years as an operating systems analyst. Prior to Emory, he administered servers for PEER1, managing web-hosting for over a year. Interestingly, James has also worked as a corporate spy. He used to work for IronMail, which was eventually bought by McAfee. He had several Fortune-500 business customers […]

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Jon Bodnar, User Experience Librarian, Core Systems

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Jon has dual titles as the User Experience Librarian and the Electronic Thesis and Dissertations Program Coordinator. He’s been at Emory for three years. Before coming to Emory, he spent four years at Georgia Tech’s library as a Faculty Engagement and Assessment Librarian and as a Subject Specialist and Departmental Liaison to the Schools of […]

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