Merrilee Proffitt

Senior Program Officer

Merrilee Proffitt is a Senior Program Officer in OCLC Research. She provides project management skills and expert support to institutions represented within the RLG Partnership.

Merrilee is an active member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), and in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (RBMS-ACRL). She has also served on the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Editorial Board, the Text Encoding Initiative Council and currently serves on the Encoded Archival Description Working Group. Merrilee has authored or co-authored articles, guidelines, and reports for a variety organizations and professional journals. She is frequently an invited speaker at international professional conferences and workshops on topics relating to digital libraries and special collections.

Her current projects and interests include: archival description, increasing access to special collections, the impact of copyright on primary source material, and digital library initiatives.

Before coming to her current job in 2001, Merrilee was director of digital archive development at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

Projects

• Barriers to Using EAD
• Develop a Holistic Approach to Archival Collections Assessment