People

This page documents who makes up Digital Collections, what each person focuses on, and how the team reports and collaborates. It is meant to be a quick orientation for new team members — pair it with Digital Collections Services for a description of the services these roles support.

Org Chart

        graph TD

MB["Mark Baggett<br>Director of Digital Collections"]
CB["Corina Barr<br>Digital Collections Librarian"]
CS["Charity Stokes<br>Institutional Repository Administrator"]
JVK["Jvk Chaitanya<br>Repository Applications Librarian"]
AC["Angela Colmenares<br>AI and Machine Learning Librarian"]
SSM["Sharvari Shekhar Mhatre<br>Institutional Repository Student Technician"]

MB --> CB
MB --> CS
MB --> JVK
MB --> AC
CS --> SSM

Roles

  • Mark Baggett — Director of Digital Collections. Sets strategic direction for the unit and leads the team responsible for repository infrastructure, metadata practices, and digital publishing services across the Libraries. Currently services as product owner for most of the digital library program technologies and oversees all instances of Open Journal Systems.

  • Corina Barr — Digital Collections Librarian. Supports the curation, description, and delivery of cultural heritage digital collections and exhibits.

  • Charity Stokes — Institutional Repository Administrator. Stewards OAKTrust and the systems that manage and provide access to the University’s scholarly output.

  • Jvk Chaitanya — Repository Applications Librarian. Designs, develops, and maintains the digital repository infrastructure behind our cultural heritage and institutional repository systems, including metadata pipelines, ingest workflows, and web archiving. Also supports other team members with technical development of new tooling.

  • Angela Colmenares — AI and Machine Learning Librarian. Leads the integration of AI and ML tools into library workflows, with a focus on metadata creation and enrichment, automated captioning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for digital collections.

  • Sharvari Shekhar Mhatre — Institutional Repository Student Technician. Supports OAKTrust operations and day-to-day institutional repository tasks under Charity Stokes.

Locations

Team Locations

This section describes where team members are physically located.

        flowchart TB
    subgraph EA["Evans Annex"]
        direction TB
        subgraph EA6["Floor 6 — Digital Initiatives"]
            r624["624<br/>Mark Baggett"]
            r617["617<br/>Corina Barr"]
            r648["648<br/>Jvk Chaitanya"]
            r615["615<br/>Small DI Conference Room"]
            r614["614<br/>Large DI Conference Room"]
        end
        subgraph EA3["Floor 3 — Cataloging"]
            r325["325<br/>Charity Stokes"]
            rStu["Student Stations<br/>Shavari Mhatre"]
        end
        subgraph EA4["Floor 4 — Preservation"]
            r["421<br/>Preservation Meeting Room"]
        end
    end

    subgraph EV["Evans"]
        direction TB
        subgraph EV2["Floor 2"]
            r212C["212C — Map Room<br/>Angela Colmenares"]
        end
    end