The Digital Scholarship Commons is supported by several groups who provide a variety of expertise and consultation. The key people in each group are listed below.

Center for Advancing Teaching and  Learning through Research

CATLR provides resources, events, and consultation focused on teaching and learning. CATLR staff meet one-on-one with faculty, hold workshops and seminars, and provide collaborative guidance on course assessment, online teaching and learning, and other topics.

Cigdem Talgar, Director (617-373-4584, c.talgar@neu.edu)

Social psychology and cognition, visual perception

Robert Lagueux, Senior Associate Director; Lecturer, Department of Music (617-373-3791, r.lagueux@neu.edu

Arts and media, music

 

Michael Sweet, Senior Associate Director; Lecturer, Department of Psychology (617-373-2833, m.sweet@neu.edu)

Social sciences, critical thinking, team-based learning

Susan Chang, Associate Director (617-373-7059, s.chang@neu.edu)

Media research, advertising, consumer marketing

Laurie Poklop, Associate Director (617-373-7772,  l.poklop@neu.edu)

Electronic portfolios, instructional design, project management and research

 

Academic Technology Services

ATS provides support for the software, tools, and services that support teaching and learning. The group offers walk-in consultations, workshops, and training on teaching and learning technologies, including Blackboard, Blackboard Collaborate, TurningPoint, Tegrity, Captivate, Articulate, and Adobe Presenter.

 

Stephanie Trowbridge, Associate Director (617-373-4581, s.trowbridge@neu.edu)

Academic Technologies

Terry Beadle, Academic Application Specialist (617-373-4894, t.beadle@neu.edu)

Digital Media, Academic Technologies

Lindsey Sudbury, Academic Instructional Technologist  (617-373-4470, l.sudbury@neu.edu)

Digital Media, Academic Technologies

Alyssa Faria, Academic Instructional Technologist (617-373-6968, a.faria@neu.edu)

Digital Media, Academic Technologies

Chris Carrillo, Academic Technology Portfolio Manager (617-373-7664,   c.carrillo@neu.edu)

Blackboard Systems Administration and Support

Chris Kennedy, Academic Application Specialist (617-373-2271, c.kennedy@neu.edu)

Blackboard Systems Administration and Support

 

Digital Scholarship Group

DSG provides resources, consultation, and events focused on digital research and scholarship. The group develops and maintains systems that enable faculty to create digital projects and publications, provides consultation on tools and methods of digital scholarship, and assists in the planning of research funding proposals involving digital scholarly technologies. DSG also hosts workshops and working groups on digital research tools and methods.

Julia Flanders, Director; Professor of the Practice, Department of English (617-373-4435,  j.flanders@neu.edu)

Digital humanities, data modeling, XML, TEI, markup languages, digital scholarly editing, digital humanities grant proposal development, open access journal publishing

 

Syd Bauman, XML Programmer (617-373-7339,  s.bauman@neu.edu)

XML technologies, TEI, markup languages, digital humanities

 

Sarah Sweeney, Digital Repository Manager (617-373-5062,  sj.sweeney@neu.edu)

Metadata, digital repositories and the DRS, digital humanities

Hillary Corbett, Scholarly Communications Officer (617-373-2352,   h.corbett@neu.edu)

Copyright and fair use, intellectual property, scholarly publishing, online journals, Open Journal Systems

 

Research and Instruction

Research and Instruction librarians offer consultations on all aspects of research and use of the library’s resources. They can help find print and online resources, advise on research strategy, and help strategize digital research projects and publications. R&I librarians are available every afternoon at the help desk in the DSC.

 

James Dendy, Head (617-373-3344,  j.dendy@neu.edu)

Agriculture, earth sciences, ecology, geology, history, maps, sustainability

Amanda Rust, Assistant Head (617-373-8548,  a.rust@neu.edu

English and American literature, theatre

 

Roxanne Palmatier, Assistant Head (617-373-4968,  r.palmatier@neu.edu)

Social sciences and government information; criminal justice, government, international affairs, law, military/naval science, political science

 

Jen Ferguson, Assistant Head (617-373-3853,  j.ferguson@neu.edu)

Data management plans, biology