Merrilee Proffitt
Partnering with libraries, now and into the future
- Role
- Senior Manager, Oclc Research at OCLC
- Location
- Oakland, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Merrilee Proffitt
Finding ways to increase the relevancy of libraries in a digital age. Specialties: Digital libraries, archives & special collections community leadership, digitization of special collections, the future of libraries, Wikipedia and Libraries. Editor and author: Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge, ALA Editions, 2018. Co-author: Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice, OCLC Research, 2022.
Experience
Senior Manager, Oclc Research
Apr 2018 — Present
Helping to manage the OCLC Research Library Partnership, a unique transnational collaborative network of peers to address common issues as well as the opportunity to engage directly with OCLC Research.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science (BS), American History (United States), (English literature minor
1985 — 1990
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