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This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. studentsKatrina Fenlon
Assistant Professor; Faculty Co-Director, Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS)kfenlon@umd.edu
301-405-3116
Hornbake South 4105-C
Dr. Katrina Fenlon is an assistant professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a faculty affiliate of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Her research focuses on the changing shape of the scholarly knowledge ecosystem. She employs qualitative methods to study diversifying forms of cultural evidence and humanities scholarly production, along with their implications for information practices, digital curation, data models and standards, and research infrastructures across disciplines. Her work aims to advance the capacity of communities and knowledge organizations to create and sustain meaningful, inclusive, impactful digital collections that, in turn, support the advancement of knowledge and the endurance of communities.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Research & Focus Areas
Research Projects
- Building a sustainable future for anthropology’s archives: Researching primary source data lifecycles, infrastructures, and reuse
- Community-centered Strategies for Sustaining Digital Humanities Scholarship
- Developing a Computational Framework for Library and Archival Education
- Digital Curation Fellows Program – National Agricultural Library
- Digital Curation Fellows Program at the National Agricultural Library
- Establishing and Testing Best Practices in the Digital Curation of Collections at the National Agricultural Library
- Sustaining Digital Community Collections: Understanding the Impact of Development Workflows Across Contexts