User:Jason Evans Groth

Jason Evans Groth is a North Carolina State University Libraries Fellow for 2013-2015. As part of the User Experience Department he has worked to successfully open the Music Rooms and Media Production Studios at the new Hunt Library, helping to provide access to students, faculty, and staff for both media creation and media preservation. He continues to offer workshops that teach both production and preservation, with the long-term goal of casting the library as a one-stop shop for all matter of multimedia work, both for creation and for archiving. He is part of a born digital curation strategic initiative in the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) with the goal of creating a robust and well-documented born digital preservation workflow. He graduated from the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Indiana University in May of 2013 with a dual MLS/MIS degree with a focus on digital libraries. While in SLIS Jason worked with John Walsh on the digital humanities effort The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project and was a graduate assistant for the IU Digital Libraries Program working mostly with XSLT and TEI from 2011-2012. He was the graduate assistant for the Media Preservation Initiative (MPI) working primarily with prioritization of media assets at IU from 2012-2013. He he has worked at the IU Libraries Film Archive (IULFA) since 2010 as an Assistant Archivist on all manner of projects, from simple identification and testing, to cataloging and inspection, to blogging, social media, and electronic finding aid production.