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David Seaman is the Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College Library, where his
areas of responsibility include the Jones Media Center, the Digital Library Technologies Group,
Preservation Services (including the Book Arts Workshop), Digital Production, and the Dartmouth College Records Management program.
Prior to moving to New Hampshire, he was the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) from 2002-2006,
an international consortium of major academic libraries. David came to the DLF from the Electronic Text Center
at the University of Virginia Library, where he was the Center's founding Director (1992-2002). In this role, he oversaw the creation
of online texts, images, and e-books, and helped develop scholarly communities who make innovative use of these new materials and tools.
David holds a B.A. in English Studies (University of East Anglia, 1984),
an M.A. in Medieval Studies (University of Connecticut, 1986), and is
working on a Ph.D. in Managerial Leadership in the Information Professions at Simmons
College (expected 2012). He has lectured and published extensively in the fields
of humanities computing and digital libraries, and taught
Special Collections digitization and XML courses at the annual Rare Book
School at the University of Virginia Library since 1993.
Recent publications
- “Collaborative Leadership and Institutional Repositories.” Forthcoming in Library & Information Science Research.
- "Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository." D-Lib Magazine (March/April 2011).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march11/seaman/03seaman.html
- With Cynthia Pawlek. “Summon,” in “Next-generation library catalogues: reviews of Encore, Primo, Summon and Summa.”
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community. 22 (1), March 2009, pp. 74-77.
- With Sayeed Choudury. “The Virtual Library.” In A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. (Oxford: Blackwells, 2008).
Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series.
Recent presentations
- "Collaborative Innovation: Designing an Integrated Faculty Services Model at Dartmouth College." Stepping into the Digital Media Paradigm: Preserving Unique Collections, Sharing Resources and Creating new IT-Library-Faculty Partnerships. NERCOMP. 14 April 2011, Norwood, MA.
- "Information Fluency and the Humanities." Keynote: Council of Independent Colleges Workshop on Information Fluency in Literature. New Orleans, LA. 10 February 2011.
- Participant. "Off the Tracks—Laying New Lines for Digital Humanities Scholars." Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland. January 20-21, 2011.
http://mith.umd.edu/offthetracks/
- Participant. Electronic Deposit Publishers Forum. Library of Congress, Electronic Copyright Office. May 10-11 2010, Washington DC.
- "Forging Ahead with Institutional Digital Information Strategies." Panel Member. CNI Task Force Meeting, Washington, DC. 14 December 2009.
- "Handhelds in Academia: Ebooks and Beyond." Advancing Scholarly Communities in the Brave New World. Society for Scholarly Publishing 2009 Annual Meeting. 2009. Baltimore, MD.
- "Library Services in an Age of Super-abundant Information." Keynote presentation. Ivies+ Access Services Symposium. Dartmouth College, 14 April 2009.
- "Books, Blogs, and the Digital Native." Labor and Creativity in the Digital Age: New Visions of Work and Rights. Dartmouth College Centers Forum “Conflict and Reconciliation” series. 23 February 2009.
Co-Authorship of Dartmouth College Library Reports
6025 Baker Library, Room 115
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
603-646-9930
david.seaman@dartmouth.edu
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dseaman
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