The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that Trevor Owens has been selected to be the Senior Program Officer with responsibility for the national digital platform in the Office of Library Services. The announcement was made by IMLS Director Susan H. Hildreth.
Owens is currently Digital Archivist with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, where he plays a key role in defining national strategy for collecting, preserving, and providing access to digital information. He served as co-chair for the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's Infrastructure working group and managed the development of Viewshare, a free open-source platform for visualizing and sharing digital collections now used by thousands of librarians, archivists and curators. Before joining the Library of Congress, he worked as the community manager for the Zotero open-source research tool at the Center for History and New Media.
Owens was the recipient of the 2014 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference C. Herbert Finch Online Publication Award for his work as special curator on a Library of Congress online collection and thematic exhibition featuring the papers of scientist Carl Sagan. He also received the Society for American Archivists' 2014 Archival Innovator Award, an award granted annually to recognize the archivist, repository, or organization that best exemplifies the 'ability to think outside the professional norm.'
