Oya Y. Rieger

With an interdisciplinary angle involving the Communication, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science departments, my key research interests include:

• Impact of sociocultural factors in acceptance, implementation, and appropriation of various digital scholarly communication modes and collaboration patterns among different disciplines.
• Role of social and organizational infrastructure factors (disciplinary practices, research methods, coordination, mutual dependencies, trust, etc.) in interdisciplinary research and curation initiatives.
• Innovative and novel uses of digital content and information and communication technologies in advancing and transforming learning, teaching, and research (conveniences introduced such as time-saving digital images vs. new ways of conducting research).
  
  My position at the Cornell University Library provides me a stimulating and readily available applied research environment to explore these issues.

Cornell University, Department of Communication
Ph.D. Student (2007 - )

Columbia University, M.S., Library Science, 1991
Concentration: Information Systems (48-credit program)

University of Oklahoma, M.P.A., Public Administration, 1985

Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), 1983, B.S., Economy and Administrative Sciences

Interim Assistant University Librarian for Digital Library and Information Technologies, Cornell University Library (CUL), 2007 - present.

Oversee the Library's digital library program including web development services, scholarly communication systems (DSpace, DPubS, arXiv), desktop services, and digital content creation and preservation. Participate in R&D studies to explore digital library infrastructures, policies, services, and new models for academic support.

Associate Director, Digital Library and Information Technologies, CUL (2004 - 2006)

Coordinate digital content creation and management services in support of learning, teaching and research including Advancing eScholarship initiative. Provide leadership in digital library strategic planning, management, and assessment with a focus on digital collection life cycle management issues.

Coordinator of Distributed Learning, CUL (2001 -2003)

Work with faculty, library staff, and other Cornell service providers in assessing the impact of technology-mediated instruction on learning, teaching, and research. Facilitate the development of library services and programs in support of scholarly communication.

Coordinator, Digital Imaging and Preservation Research Unit, Department of Preservation and Conservation, CUL (1997 -2001)

Conduct research on topics related to digital imaging, content management, and digital preservation. Develop and teach a series of digital imaging and digital preservation workshops and publish reports based on the research findings.

Numeric Files Librarian and Gateway Manager, (1991 - 1996), Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University

Manage Mann Library's data collections and services, including selection, archiving, user support, and publicity. Participate in digital library development projects; design and implement user and system evaluation studies; provide references services; participate in outreach; and teach information management workshops.

• National Library of New Zealand, National Digital Heritage Archive Program, Advisor, 2006-
• Digital Library Federation, Aquifer Working Group, 2006-2008
• NISO Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images Standards Committee, Co-chair, 2000-2006
• RLG Instructional Technology Advisory Group, Member, 2003-2004
  
• 2008 Best Paper Award, Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (co-autored paper)
  
• Waldo Gifford Leland Award of the Society of American Archivists for Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (co-authored with Anne R. Kenney), 2002
• Esther J. Piercy Award for Outstanding Promise for Professional Contributions and Leadership (American Library Association), 2001
• Library Information Technology Association, Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Technology (presented to Digital Imaging and Preservation Research Unit, which I coordinated during 1997- 2001), 2001
• OCLC-RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group, Member, 2000-2003
  European Union Metadata Engine Project, Advisory Council Member, 2000-2003
• Research Libraries Group DigiNews, Co-founder & Co-editor, 1997-2001
• Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALA), Reformatting Committee, Member, 1998-2000
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), Steering Committee Member, 1994-1996
• Electronic Dissemination of Statistics, Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Member, 1994-1996
• Association of Public Data Users, Member, 1991-1996

Oya Y. Rieger. Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2008.

Gilly Leshed, Theresa Velden, Oya Rieger, Brajev Kot, & Phoebe Sengers. In-car GPS navigation: Engagement with and disengagement from the environment. In Proceedings of theAnnual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008. Best of CHI 2008 Award.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Select for Success: Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models." D-Lib Magazine. Vol. 13 No. 7/8, July/August 2007.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Implementing a Digital Imaging and Archiving Program: Technology Meets Reality," Proceedings of the Imaging Science and Technology Conference, pp. 191-194, 2006.

Oya Y. Rieger, Angela Horne, Ira Revels. "Linking Course Web Sites to Library Collections and Services," Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 205-211, 2004.

David Vernon and Oya Y. Rieger. Digital Asset Management: An Introduction to Key Issues, Office of Information Technology, IT Architecture Initiative, February 2003.

Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, Inc., 2000.

Anne R. Kenney, Oya Y. Rieger, Rich Entlich. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, 1999 (updated in 2002 and translated into Spanish & French),

Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. "Preserving Digital Assets: Cornell's Digital Image Collections Project," First Monday, Vol. 5, No. 6, 2000.

G. Lawrence, W. Kehoe, O. Rieger, W. Walters, A. Kenney. Risk Management of Digital Information: A File Format Investigation. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000.

Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access. Ithaca, NY: Department of Preservation and Conservation, 1999.

Oya Y. Rieger and Sandy Payette. "Supporting Scholarly Inquiry: Incorporating Users in the Design of the Digital Library," Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 121-129, March 1998.

Sandy Payette and Oya Y. Rieger. "Z39.50: The User's Perspective," D-Lib Magazine, April 1997.

Oya Y. Rieger and Kathy Chiang. "Numeric Files on CD-ROM," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 60, pp. 237-250, 1997.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Challenges in Developing and Maintaining the USDA Economics and Statistics System," Proceedings of the American Statistics Association, 1997.

Zsuzsa Koltay and Oya Y. Rieger. "Agricultural Data on Internet: USDA Economics and Statistics System," Journal of Agricultural and Food Information, Vol 3, No. 4, pp. 27-49, 1996.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Gateway Update: Migrating to the Web," Library Hi Tech, vol. 14, no. 4, p. 84, 1996.

Kathy Chiang and Oya Y. Rieger. "Introduction to Extracting and Mapping Census Data," Reference Services Review, vol. 23, no 1, pp. 29-38, 44, 1995.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Public's Right to Know: Toxic Release Inventory," in A Practical Guide to Using Federal Government CD-ROM Databases, ed. John Maxymuk. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1994.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Introducing Numeric CD-ROMs in Your Library: Issues and Challenges," Microcomputers in Information Management, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 93-118, July 1993.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Government Data on CD-ROM: Marketing the New Services," in Computers in Libraries 1993: Proceedings, ed. Nancy Melin Nelson. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1993.

Oya Y. Rieger. "Organizing Information on the Internet: Sample Gopher Servers," in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Information Technology. West Newton, MA: MicroUse Information, 1993.

"Understanding Interdisciplinary Ecosystems: Social Construction of Scholarly Communication," Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2008 Project Briefings, Minneapolis, MN.

“Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization,” Digital Library Federation Forum, October 2007, Philadelphia, PA. 

"Key Principles in Assessing Repository Models." International Symposium in Digital Curation. April 2007, Chapel Hill, NC.

"Life Cycle Management Meets Digital Preservation: Role of Collection Maintenance in Digital Collections Sustainability." Digital Library Federation Forum, November 2006, Boston, MA.

"Business Models for Developing Digital Production Services," International Online Information Conference, November 2005, Bangkok, Thailand & Xiamen, China (2 half day workshops and 2 presentations).

"Faculty-Library Collaborations in Building Digital Collections," Digital Library Federation Forum, April 2005, San Diego, CA.

"Supporting the Integration of Digital Assets in Learning, Teaching, and Scholarly Communication," Educause Annual Conference, October 2004, Santa Barbara, CA.

"Metadata for Discovering, Managing, and Preserving Image Collections," NISO Conference on Metadata Practices on the Cutting Edge, May 2004, Washington, DC.

"Implementing a Digital Imaging and Archiving Program: Technology Meets Reality," Imaging Science and Technology Conference, April 2004, San Antonio, TX.

"Integrating Digital Libraries with Virtual Learning Environments: Creating a Service Infrastructure," Digital Library Federation Forum, November 2002, Seattle, WA.

"Zoom In, Zoom Out: Imaging to Digital Asset Management," JISC Digital Image Symposium Keynote, June 2002, London, UK.

"Technical Metadata for Digital Image Collections," European Union Metadata Engine Conference, February 2001, Alicante, Spain.

"Project Prism: Role of Preservation Metadata," European Conference on Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation, December 2000, York, UK.

"Preservation Research in Project Prism," Joint JISC/NSF Digital Library Initiative II All-Projects Meeting, June 2000, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.

"Digital Preservation: Moving Theory into Practice," Library and Information Technology Association Forum, November 1999, Raleigh, NC.

"Lossy vs. Lossless File Compression Debate," American Library Association Conference, February 1999, Philadelphia, PA.

"Determining Image Quality Requirements in Digital Preservation," American Library Association Conference, 1997, San Francisco, CA.

"User Behavior in the Electronic Library," American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, November 1997, Washington, DC.

"Supporting Scholarly Inquiry: Incorporating Users in the Design of the Digital Library," Library and Information Technology Association National Conference, 1996, Pittsburgh, PA.

"Challenges in Developing and Maintaining the USDA Economics and Statistics System," American Statistical Association Conference, 1996, Chicago, IL.

"Gateway: Mann Library's Electronic Library," ALA Annual Conference, 1996, New York, NY.

"Mann Library on the Net," United States Agricultural Information Network Conference (USAIN), 1995, Lexington, KY.

"Integrating Internet Resources into Science and Technology Libraries," ALA Annual Conference, 1995, Philadelphia, PA.

"Data on the Internet: Access, Usage and Publicity," Association of Public Data Users Conference, 1994, Washington, DC.

"Finding Government Information on the Internet," ACRL Regional Conference, 1994, Buffalo, NY.

"Organizing Information on the Internet: Sample Gopher Servers," International Conference on New Information Technologies, 1993, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Managing Digitization Projects, 2007 -

Developed for the Special Libraries Association, this online course presents an overview of processes involved in creating and managing digital assets at cultural and educational institutions.

Charting a Course: A Project Management Perspective for Digital Collection Development, 2004-

This half-day workshop has been offered several times since 2004 for the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS), Visual Resources Association (VRA), and various regional library councils. It discusses the issues surrounding planning and administering digitization projects, including project management and sustainability issues.

Digital Preservation Management Workshop, 2003-2006

Offer a session on life cycle management and business model development for digital asset management. The week-long workshop has been developed by the Cornell University Library and was offered 3-4 times/year.

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, 1997- 2002

Co-developed and co-instructed this 5-day, hands-on workshop that was offered 3-4 times/year at Cornell. Covered various topics related to creation and management of digital image collections, including digital preservation planning.

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial, 2002

Coordinated the development of this distance learning tool that was developed to support the Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives workshop.

Research Libraries Group (RLG) Workshop on Managing Digital Imaging Projects, 1997-1999

Co-developed and co-instructed this 2.5 day managerial workshop on behalf of the Research Libraries Group. Offered seven times in different locations including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.