Bill Parod Welcomed to Digital Repository Team

Bill Parod joined the NUL staff on March 3rd as a Repository Developer. Along with Steve DiDomenico, Bill will be a chief developer of our Digital Repository. Bill has been with Northwestern since 1988 and was most recently an Architect for
Scholarly Technologies with Academic Technologies.

Bill is certainly no stranger to our library. He was a key collaborator on the library's SGML initiatives, including the Electronic Text collections and the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Bill has worked on our earliest digital library projects including Siege of Paris, WWII Posters and Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. More recently, he has worked on projects such as Vesalius' Fabrica, DLF Aquifer, Winterton Collection, and Arabic Manuscripts from West Africa. Bill was part of the NOTIS replacement task force and was also a member of the Digital Library Committee. In addition to his work at Northwestern, Bill has worked on many high-profile projects with research libraries, museums, and archives (e.g., Chicago History Museum, ArtStor, the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Digital Library Federation). Bill has a B.A from Southern Illinois University in Mathematics and an M.S. from Northwestern in Computer Studies in Music.

Bill is highly respected in the developer, library and humanities communities. He has a national reputation as a leader and innovator within the FEDORA development community. He was on the initial FEDORA steering committee convened by Cornell and the University of Virginia. Bill has been an integral part of the Library's repository planning, serving on several working groups and committees.

We are excited about having Bill as part of our team. Please join me in congratulating Bill and welcoming him to our staff.

Stu Baker
Associate Director of Libary Technology

(Photo by Mary Bradley)