Susan Wells Parham

Susan Wells Parham is the Digital Curation Librarian for the Georgia Tech Library. She holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science with a Digital Libraries Concentration from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Virginia. She is responsible for implementing digital library services that support the scholarly communication lifecycle – providing long-term access and preservation for digital scholarship and research. Her research interests include understanding the research practices of scholars; she served as co-PI on the IMLS funded DART Project: using data management plans as a research tool. She has served on the DMPTool Advisory Board, as Associate Editor for Research Data Access & Preservation for the ASIS&T Bulletin, and was a member of the founding Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Editorial Board. Parham co-manages digital curation initiatives.

Subject Specialties:

• Digital Curation
• Research Data Management
• Scholarly Communication