Title

Sophie Ziegler

Head, Digital Programs & Services

225-578-1249

Hill Memorial Library

Responsibilities

Hi! as Head of Digital Programs and Services, I'm responsible for developing strategies for the Libraries’ digitization and preservation operations, ensuring access to and preservation of the library’s digital assets. I also serves as an ambassador for the Libraries’ digital programs by building and maintaining working relationships with the university community and external partners.

I work extensively with the Louisiana Digital Library, and manage the Y'ALL Award. I am also the founding editor of Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship.

Education

Drexel University	Master of Science, Library and Information Science	2009
Louisiana State University	Master of Arts, Philosophy	2008

Presentations

"Let’s Discover Louisiana Together: The Louisiana Digital Library as Community Effort," Louisiana Archives and Manuscripts Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA, 10/25/2019
"Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action," CNI Spring 2019 Members Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 04/05/2019
"Asking Who the Work is For: An Autoethnographic Examination of a Digital Librarian," Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, Lewisburg, PA, 10/6/2018
Moderator: "Future Tools and Technologies," The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries Conference, Philadelphia, PA 9/29/2018
"More Than a Pretty Interface: The Louisiana Digital Library as Data Hub," LOUIS Users Conference, Baton Rouge, LA 9/14/2018
"Open Data as a Service in Special Collections Libraries; or, Let's Be Sure We're Better Than Data Brokers," Coalition for Networked Information Spring 2018 Membership Meeting, San Diego, CA 4/12/2018
"Open Historic Data as a Service in Special Collections Libraries," Entangled Histories Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 4/6/2018
"PAL: Toward An Automated Recommendation Tool for Archives and Special Collections," 2017 Digital Library Federation Forum, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/24/2017
"A Data First Approach (Then Retreat, Then Regroup, Then Approach Again) to a Collaborative Digital Project," Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, Lewisburg, PA, 10/7/2017
"You’ll Probably Like This One, Too: Using Circulation Data to Automate Recommendations in a Special Collections Library," Code4Lib National Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 3/7/2017

Publications

Ziegler, Sophia. “Toward Empathetic Digital Repositories: An Interview with Diego Pino Navarro.” Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship 2, no. 1 (January 10, 2022). https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/jcdl/vol2/iss1/1.
Ziegler, Sophia. “It Matters Who Does This Work: An Interview with Tonia Sutherland.” Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship 1, no. 1 (October 21, 2021). https://doi.org/10.31390/jcdl.1.1.02.
Ziegler, SL (2020) Open Data in Cultural Heritage Institutions: Can We Be Better Than Data Brokers? Digital Humanities Quarterly 014, no. 2 (June 19, 2020). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/2/000462/000462.html
Ziegler, S. & Marti, S. (2019). A Hidden Gem Becomes a Fertile Mining Ground: Historic Prison Admission Books and Data-Driven Digital Projects. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 143(3). pp. 363-373.
Ziegler, S. (2019). Digitization Selection Criteria as Anti-Racist Action. Code4Lib Journal, 46. https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14667
Ziegler, S., & Key, C (2019). More Than a Pretty Interface: The Louisiana Digital Library as a Data Hub. Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 5(5), 153-171. http://journal.acrlla.org/index.php/codex/article/view/155
Ziegler, S., & Shrake, R. (2018). Pal: toward a recommendation system for manuscripts. Information Technology and Libraries, 37(3), 84–98. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i3.10357

Certifications

Certified Archivist, Academy of Certified Archivists, 2016