Cecilia Smith is the Director of Digital Scholarship at the University of Chicago Library, where she directs the Center of Digital Scholarship.
Cecilia works with library units and campus partners to provide an integrated suite of services that support open scholarship, publishing, data management, research information management, and digital collections. Her portfolio includes scholarly communications, the institutional repository, and the Dissertation Office.
Her collaborations cover a range of digital scholarship projects and community engagement initiatives. Current grant-funded projects:
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- GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW): An initiative to develop open consultative and instructional workflows for GIS librarians.
- Mapping Chicagoland: A digital collections project to digitize, georeference, and make openly available over 4,000 historical maps of Chicago from the UChicago Library, Newberry Library, and the Chicago History Museum.
- Resurrecting the 1970s Guerilla Television Movement: A digital collections project to digitize, catalog, and make openly accessible over 1,000 recordings made using portable video cameras in the 1960s and 1970s in collaboration with Media Burn Archive.
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Cecilia Smith received her BA in Archaeology from Boston University and her MS in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology from the University College London. Her PhD in Anthropology is from the University of Illinois-Chicago.