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Tyler O. Walters is the Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center. He provides leadership, vision, and expertise in library collections management, new scholarly communication services, digital library and archives programs, information technology management, and archives and records programs.

Tyler is a co-principal investigator with the MetaArchive Cooperative, one of the eight original digital preservation partnerships with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress. He has published on digital preservation and repositories and spoken on these topics at ACRL, CNI, DigCCurr, EDUCAUSE, iPRES, NSF Conference on Digital Government, and other conferences.

Currently, Tyler is the Chair of the Organizing Committee, Fourth International Conference on Open Repositories in Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-21, 2009 and a member of the Open Repositories Steering Committee.

Since 2002, Tyler has led the Georgia Tech team that founded SMARTech, Georgia Tech's institutional repository, which is one of the largest and most robust DSpace installations in the world, and the ePAGE@Tech digital publishing and capturing services.

Currently, Tyler is adjunct instructor, University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science. He teaches in the Digital Information Management program (DigIn). He also serves on the DigIn’s Advisory Board.

Tyler was a member of the 2006 ARL/NSF workgroup that produced the report "To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Data Sets in Science and Engineering" [PDF].