Richard J. Urban, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Professional Information

Full name: Richard J. Urban
Job title: Doctoral Student
URL: http://isrl.uiuc.edu/~rjurban
Education: BA, History, Penn State Univ.; MA History, Museum Studies Certificate, Univ. of Delaware; MLIS Univ. of Illinois
Professional Organizations: Museum Computer Network, ASIS&T, ACM, American Association of Museums
Current Projects: IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project
Disciplinary Interests: Museum studies, history, museum informatics, library science, information science, archival science
Bio: Richard is currently a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a graduate research assistant for the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project and as project assistant for the Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata. Previously he worked with the ECHO DEPository Project. Prior to returning to his graduate studies, Richard served as the Operations Coordinator for the Collaborative Digitization Program (aka Colorado Digitization Project), which assisted libraries, archives, museums and other cultural heritage organizations providing online access to their collections.