Lisa Carter

For immediate release:
January 27, 2009

For more information, contact:
Crit Stuart
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
crit@arl.org

North Carolina State’s Lisa Carter Named ARL Visiting Program Officer

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Lisa Carter as a Visiting Program Officer (VPO) to work with the ARL Special Collections Working Group, effective in January 2009. Carter is Head of the Special Collections Research Center at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries.

Carter’s VPO assignment supports an ARL objective to promote collaborative integration and enduring access to comprehensive research collections and resources in all formats that could be used to advance research, teaching, and learning. It is within this broad context that the Special Collections Working Group addresses issues associated with the collecting, surfacing, and leveraging of special collections.

Carter’s primary responsibility is to collaborate with working group Chair Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, Yale University, to develop agendas, to facilitate the sharing of ideas that will advance the ARL objective, and to assist with planning and preparation for a conference in late 2009.

Previous to her appointment at NCSU in 2007, Carter was Director of Archives at the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections and Digital Programs. She focused on digital and audio-visual archive projects, and received a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Archival Research Fellowship to investigate digital video preservation issues in conjunction with her work in archiving and digitizing Kentucky Educational Television’s broadcast programs. She was an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow in 2007–09 and is an active member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Midwest Archives Conference, and the Society of American Archivists.

Carter received her MLIS from the University of Michigan and BA in interdisciplinary humanities from Michigan State University.

Carter may be contacted at North Carolina State University at lisa_carter@ncsu.edu.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.