Lori A. Lindberg

Lecturer and Consultant

Lori Lindberg is a lecturer in the Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree at SLIS and the archives specialization in the MLIS degree. In addition to her academic work, Lori is an archival consultant having work relationships with entities large and small, including the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California State Parks, and the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

In support of her teaching and consulting work, Lori is currently matriculating for the PhD in Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where her advisor is Dr. Anne J. Gilliland. She is a member of the Society of California Archivists, the Academy of Certified Archivists, ARMA International and the Society of American Archivists (SAA), where she has served on numerous award committees and as Chair of the Archival Educators" Roundtable.

Lori's research interests lie in recordkeeping informatics, metadata and metadata structures, and the role of metadata in the long-term preservation of reliable and authentic electronic records. As part of her doctoral studies, Lori worked as a graduate student researcher in the Description Cross-Domain group of the InterPARES 2 project.

Courses Taught

• [MARA 200] The Records and the Recordkeeping Professions
• [MARA 202] Information Technology, Records, and the Information Age
• [MARA 204] Management of Records and Archival Institutions
• [MARA 210] Records Creation, Appraisal and Retention
• [284] Seminar in Archives & Records Management
• [294] Professional Experience: Internships

Education

• PhD (Information Studies) University of California, Los Angeles (matriculating)
• MLIS (Library and Information Science) San José State University (2000)
• BA (English Literature) San Francisco State University (1996)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2002-2003)
• City of Corona, CA - Corona Public Library, 2007
• City of Oakland, CA - Oakland Public Library, African-American Museum and Library at Oakland, 2005-2008
• City of San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, 2007
• Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, San Rafael, CA 2008
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2005-2006
• Lincoln Child Center, Oakland, CA 2007-2008
• Paramount Theatre Library of Popular Music, Oakland, CA, 2008
• Pasadena Museum of History, 2007-2008
• Sempervirens Fund, Mountain View, CA, 2003
• State of California:
  • Department of Industrial Relations, 2005-2006
  • Department of Parks and Recreation, 2002-2004

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF

• Gilliland, A., Lindberg, L., McCargar, V., Langmead, A., et al. (2008). Part Six - Investigating the Roles and Requirements, Manifestations and Management of Metadata in the Creation of Reliable and Preservation of Authentic Digital Entities: Description Cross-domain Task Force Report. In L. Duranti & R. Preston (Eds.), International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 2: Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records. Padova, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana.
• Lindberg, L., Leahey-Sugimoto, M., Rouche, N. & Holly Wang, H. (2006). MADRAS: A Metadata and Archival Description Registration and Analysis System for the Analysis of the Recordkeeping Capabilities of Metadata Sets. In Proceedings of the Third IS&T Archiving Conference (pp. 216-218). Springfield, VA: Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
• Lindberg, L. & Munn, N. (2006). Internships in public library archives and local history collections. In C. Mediavilla (Ed.), Public Library Internships: Advice from the Field (pp. 123-130). Methuen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
• Gilliland, A., Rouche, N., Evans, J., & Lindberg, L. (2005). Towards a Twenty-First Century Metadata Infrastructure Supporting the Creation, Preservation and Use of Trustworthy Records: Developing the InterPARES 2 Metadata Schema Registry. Archival Science 4(1), 43-78.
• Evans, J. & Lindberg, L. (2004). Describing and Analyzing the Recordkeeping Capabilities of Metadata Sets. In DC-2004: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, October 11-14 2004, Shanghai, China (pp. 75-80). Shanghai, China: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Publishing House. Online reprint available at http://www.dublincore.go.kr/dcpapers/pdf/2004/Paper_27.pdf