Tyler Walters

Tyler O. Walters is the Associate Director, Technology and Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center. He provides leadership, vision, and expertise in digital libraries and archives, new scholarly communication services, library collections and e-resource management, information technology management, and archives and records programs.

Mr. Walters is a co-Principal Investigator with the MetaArchive Cooperative, one of the eight original digital preservation partnerships with the U.S. Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (http://www.metaarchive.org, http://www.digitalpreservation.org). He is also a founding board member and treasurer of the Educopia Institute, the non-profit organization that manages the MetaArchive Cooperative and other future projects. Currently, Mr. Walters is serving as Chair of the Host Committee for the 4th International Conference on Open Repositories in Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-21 2008. His other current appointments include membership on the Open Repositories Steering Committee, the National Science Foundation’s National Science Digital Library Sustainability Committee, and he is serving as an external review panelist for the Office of Accreditation, American Library Association. Mr. Walters is also an active grant review panelist with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure. He was also a member of the 2006 ARL / NSF workgroup that produced the report, “To Stand the Test of Time: Long-term Stewardship of Data Sets in Science and Engineering,” (http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/digdatarpt.pdf). The author of over 20 published articles and presenter at over 50 professional conferences, Mr. Walters is a past recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ Ernst Posner Award for best article in the American Archivist (1998). He holds a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona, a Master of Arts in Archival Management from North Carolina State University, and a B.A. in History from Northern Illinois University.

Mr. Walters previously served as Director of the William B. Haselton Library and Knowledge Center, Institute of Paper Science and Technology (Atlanta, GA) and worked at the Iowa State University Library, Northwestern University Library, and with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History. He is a graduate of the 2001 ACRL / Harvard Graduate School of Education Leadership Institute and completed the Certified Knowledge Manager Training Program in 2000 (eKnowledgeCenter and the Knowledge Management Certification Board).