Library Application Management Unit

As Systems Librarian, Aaron manages some of the core library management, discovery and delivery applications for the Hesburgh Libraries and the Michiana Academic Library Consortium.

Discovery System

• Configure and maintain OneSearch and the ND Catalog, using the Primo Discovery System (from Ex Libris).
• Load records from the library management system and other internal and external sources.

Library Management System

• Configure and maintain the Aleph 500 Integrated Library System, which is used for acquisitions, cataloging and circulation of library materials.
• Support integration of the management system with the discovery system, interlibrary loan and other related systems.

MLS, Indiana University; A.B., Philosophy, Harvard University

Andy is the Special Projects Librarian within the IT Program, working with others in the delivery and management of digital library content and services, and assists in the research and development of new library technologies.

Discovery System

• Configures and maintains OneSearch and the ND Catalog, using the Primo Discovery System.
• Member of the Primo Central Working Group.
• At this time, learing a lot about Primo.

Global Gateway Libraries

• Manages the implementation and ongoing support of the Koha ILS for Notre Dame's Global Gateway libraries in Rome, Jerusalem and London.
• Configures and maintains the Koha ILS, which is used for acquisitions, cataloging and circulation of library materials in the gateway libraries.

Andy earned his MSLIS (1989) from the University of Illinois (where his favorite classes were cataloging and reference) and BA Linguistics (1977), also from Illinois, with a particular interest in modern European languages.

As the Digital Library Data Curation Developer within the Digital Library Technologies Unit, Mark designs and develops digital library frameworks and applications with an emphasis on data curation. Mark works with librarians, campus partners, and researchers to embed research data curation tools and workflows into active research projects for archiving and sharing data in our institutional repository CurateND (http://curate.nd.edu), or other relevant community repositories.

Duties include:

• Design and develop digital library applications supporting digital library and data curation services
• Provide technical leadership in data architecture and design for digital library data projects
• With campus partners, develop services and web clients to manage, archive, and share research data
• Create APIs and processes to integrate other campus systems with CurateND from groups like Engineering Science and Computing, Center for Research Computing, and Digital Production.
• Work with librarians and campus partners through our Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship to develop data models and tools to tag and describe data and collections with domain specific ontologies