Professional
Current Position
Head of Digital Initiatives and Associate Librarian
Miami University Libraries, Oxford OH
July 2004 to PresentManage and provide leadership to the Libraries’ Digital Initiatives Department. Digital Initiatives was created to be a center for the benchmarking, establishment of best practices, production, quality control, delivery, storage, retrieval, and preservation of digital library collections for the Miami University Libraries.
Professional Preparation
MASTER OF SCIENCE, Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1995
MASTER OF SCIENCE, Environmental Education, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL 1993
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS, Information Resources Management, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL Emphasis in Management Information Systems 1991
Selected Publications and Presentations
Millard, J., Conley J, and B. Barr (2010) Doing Less with Less: A case study and strategies for reducing services in Libraries Academic Library Association of Ohio Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, October 2010. (Accepted)
Millard, J. and Gibson K. (2010) Teaching in the Cloud: Replacing Monolithic Course Management with Web 2.0 Innovate! (Ohio State University, May 20, 2010).
Millard, J. (2008) Digital Imaging Best Practices in the Humanities. Workshop presentation at the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) Summer Institute. Oxford, OH
Perkins, J. and Millard, J. (2007) Implementing FAST Facets in CONTENTdm Poster presented at the CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, Columbus, OH.
Millard, J. (2005) Unite and Conquer: Developing a Digital Service within Technical Services. Invited presentation at ALAO Technical Services Interest Group annual meeting. Kent, OH
Millard, J. and Wright, D. (2005) A Collaborative Approach to Teaching Digital Editing of Scholarly Texts in the Humanities. Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference. Columbus, OH.
Wright, D. and Millard J. (2004) The Matthew Prior Project: An Electronic Database of his Correspondence. Paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA
Millard J. and Wright, D. (2004) Ideas for a Graduate Course on the Study and Scholarly Editing of 18th Century Manuscripts for Online dissemination. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. St. Louis, MO
Millard, J. and Sessions, J. (2004) Collaborating directly with Research Faculty to build a Digital Library for Satellite Remote Sensing: The Ohioview Model. Paper presented at the American Library Association Annual Meeting, Science and Technology Section Research Forum, June 2004.
Millard, J. (2003). Collaborating with Faculty to Build a Digital Library for Satellite Remote Sensing: The OhioView Model. Poster developed for the Science and Technology Section of the American Library Association 2003 Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, June 2003.
Millard, J. (1999). Ohioview: The Leadership Role of Libraries in Science and Technology Partnerships. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship. Winter 1999.
Grants
(2010) with Elias Tzoc, and Jody Perkins Enhancing Access to Newspaper Collections in DSpace. State Library of Ohio LSTA
A Project to migrate the Miami Student newspaper collection from CONTENTdm to DSpace. The project intends to enhance functionality and reliability by migrating to an open source platform. Successes, best practices and step-by-step instructions will then be shared with other OhioLINK members.
$11,700(2004) VisualOhio: Implementing a Visual interface to online remote sensing data inventories. NASA Glenn Research Center through Ohio Aerospace Institute
This project implemented a visual interface to OhioView data holdings by adapting and integrating available open source and freely available tools to create a synoptic browse of data holdings while enhancing the OhioView Landsat Visualization system to provide a more selective view.
$15,000(2003) Establishing a Public Data Mirror to Support Remote Sensing Research, Education, and Outreach. NASA Glenn Research Center
This project created a facility to mirror OhioView data at Miami University. The purpose was twofold. First, the data mirror was intended to be publicly accessible where the NASA server was not. Second, the data mirror provided a complete off-site backup of the OhioView data holdings to protect against catastrophic failure of the primary archive.
$33,000(2003) OhioView Virtual University Program in Remote Sensing. Co-PI with Mandy Munro-Stasiuk and OhioView Researchers. Ohio Board of Regents.
This project, led by Dr. Stasiuk at Kent State University, proposed to create a “Virtual University” program in remote sensing and GIS utilizing videoconferencing technology, Internet technology, and regular in-class teaching. By combining technical and application expertise in remote sensing and GIS from faculty at ten state universities, the proposed program will be the first in the country to offer students opportunities for receiving top quality education to meet the increasing demands in the highly marketable field of satellite image analysis. I provided technology support, enhanced the OhioView website to support a virtual community, and tested a prototype of video streaming capabilities.
$30,000(2002) Developing a Distributed Data Caching Network Infrastructure for remote Sensing Research. NASA Glenn Research Center
This project proposed the creation of a distributed data caching system that was designed to allow researchers to search for data held at multiple locations anywhere on the OhioView network and select them for transfer to their local research lab data cache. The intent was to schedule data transfer at times when the network was anticipated to be less congested.
$95,000(2001) Refining the OhioView Geospatial Digital Library Interface to support Remote Sensing Research and Analysis. U.S. Geological Survey
This grant provided funding to add the ability to include other non-landsat data sets in the OhioView archive, especially ASTER and MODIS, and to investigate the possibility of using Internet2 networks for data delivery. Funding was received to upgrade the storage and processing capabilities of the OhioView SUN Enterprise 450 server at Miami University.
$28,500(2001) Expanding the OhioView Geospatial Digital Library: A next generation system for K-12, Higher Education and the Public. NASA Glenn Research Center
This grant funded a project to enhance the availability of OhioView data to educators, researchers, government officials, and the general public by expanding and improving upon existing data discovery and visualization systems. The grant provided funding to further develop a multi-band Landsat data visualization system and to overhaul the data acquisition and metadata creation system to accommodate more robust data discovery and to allow searching of irregular shaped (not square) datasets. $53,740
(2000) Building and Enhancing an OhioView Geospatial Digital Library for K-12, Higher Education and the General Public. NASA Glenn Research Center
This grant funded the initial development of the multi-band Landsat visualization system, the creation of an archive of Ohio Digital Raster Graphics (topographic maps) and Digital Aerial Photos, and the completion of an automatic ingest and data processing procedure to add new data to the OhioView FGDC clearinghouse. $105,000
(1999) A Space Program on the Web: Bringing Satellite Imagery to Teachers, Students, and the Public. State Library of Ohio, Pass-through funds from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
This grant focused on developing the prototype of the multi-band landsat visualization system and to begin discussions with education users about the required and desired features of the system that would optimize its use in the classroom. $19,415
(1998) OhioView Clearinghouse Development Project to Provide Access to Geospatial Data for the State of Ohio. With Stan Brown and Richard Beck. Federal Geographic Data Committee National Spatial Data Infrastructure Program
This first OhioView grant provided funding to develop and deploy a geospatial data clearinghouse server under the auspices of the Federal Geographic Data Committee’s National Spatial Data Infrastructure. The funding from this grant was used to develop the first OhioView data catalog and automated methods of extracting and reformatting metadata records. $48,000