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http://www.cdpheritage.org/about/news/director_2004-09-30.html

Denver, CO, September 30, 2004 --  The Board of Directors of the
Collaborative Digitization Program is pleased to announce the appointment of
Jill Koelling as Executive Director effective October 18, 2004.

In making the announcement, Interim Executive Director and Chair of the CDP
Board, Nancy Allen said: "We are delighted to welcome Jill to her new role
as Executive Director.  She will bring a great deal of technical expertise
on digitization as well as a wealth of experience working with a variety of
cultural heritage organizations, including historical societies, museums,
libraries and archives."

Jill Koelling has spent most of her curatorial career incorporating the use
of digital technology to provide access to primary source materials.  During
her seven years as Curator of Photographs and Head of Digital Imaging at the
Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) she worked with society staff to
establish the first digital imaging laboratory operated by a regional
conservation center.  Koelling served as the principal investigator for
Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, a Library of
Congress American Memory project that featured photographs from the Solomon
Butcher collection and the Uriah Oblinger family letters detailing their
homesteading experiences. The author of several articles and the recently
published "Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach," from Altamira Press,
Koelling has been a vocal advocate for successful digitization projects in
the museum community.  Koelling joins CDP after spending the past year and a
half as Curator of Vis ual Materials at Cline Library, Northern Arizona
University where she put her digital expertise to work increasing digital
production and adding digital content to the Colorado Plateau Digital
Archive.

Koelling attended Montana State University where she attained a BA in Media
& Theatre Arts, Photography.  She later earned a MA in Museum Studies from
the University of Nebraska.

The Collaborative Digitization Program at the University of Denver,
established in 1999 as the Colorado Digitization Project, enables access to
cultural, historical and scientific heritage collections of the West by
building collaboration between archives, historical societies, libraries and
museums.  The CDP provides assistance to the cultural heritage community
through best practice guidelines, workshops, and digitization grant funding.
For more information on the CDP and its activities please visit
www.cdpheritage.org or e-mail [log in to unmask]

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