Wilhelmina Randtke
User Information
- User Name
- Wilhelmina Randtke
Wilhelmina Randtke's Groups
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Interests
Interests - Archives
- Cataloging
- Collection Development
- Copyright
- Digital Libraries
- Digitization
- Distance Learning
- Ebooks
- Electronic Resources
- Emerging Technologies
- Games and Gaming
- Genealogy
- Geospatial Data and Services
- Government Documents & Information
- Institutional Repositories
- Intellectual Freedom
- Intellectual Property
- International Issues
- Knowledge Management
- Legislation
- Metadata
- Outsourcing
- Preservation
- Privacy
- Scholarly Communication
- Serials
- Special Collections
- Technology
Type of Libraries - Academic
- Federal
- Government
- Information-related organization
- Law
- Nonprofit
- Research Library
- Seeking employment
- Special
- State Library
Bio
- Bio
I'm a lawyer with information technology skills and long term interests in search systems, networked data, information policy, and how information flows around the world.
My research interests include copyright law, economics of publishing, and access to scientific research.
Work
- Current Work
- Florida State University (Special Library)
Web Development Intern
Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida
2011 -
Jan 2011 – present
Intern; Project Manager; Digital Projects
Jan 2011 – May 2011, Intern, 18 hrs/wk: Staffed the reference desk, conducted a workshop on Florida Legal Research, prepared research aids for law students using LibGuides, attended staff meetings, attended meetings preliminary to and prepared research aids for an online course in Advanced Legal Research, assisted in digitization projects, performed legal research for professors in Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw.
May 2011 – Sept 2011, Researcher, Project Manager, 15hrs/wk: Project manager for digitization of the 1970-1983 Florida Administrative Code. Planned and paced digitization, optical character recognition, database design using MySQL and php, prototyping in Microsoft Access, automated metadata creation in Visual Basic. Supervised one part time student assistant in digitization, indexing, and auditing for missing material. Documentation may be viewed at www.fsulawrc.com/FACsearchengine.html .
Sept 2011 – present, Digital Projects, 10 hrs/wk: Contact local government agencies regarding collection development opportunities, digitize paper and audiovisual materials, optimize pdfs and webpages for discovery through search engines. As they are completed, projects are posted at www.law.fsu.edu/library/collectionsmain.html in static xhtml. Retroactively create Dublin Core metadata records for collections, and assess ways to host and share metadata for federated search.
- Past Work Experience
The Florida State University Libraries (Academic Library) Graduate Assistant in Web Development Tallahassee, Florida 2010 - 2011 August 2010 – Sept 2011 Graduate Assistant in Web Development
Updated portions of the FSU Libraries website at www.lib.fsu.edu , administered LibGuides accounts, responded to tech support requests from librarians, prepared guidance material for librarians regarding electronic resource links and web editing tools, surveyed students and faculty regarding use of online resources, advised web development staff on how to configure Adobe Dreamweaver and Contribute accounts for librarians. 20 hrs/wk
Agency for Workforce Innovation (Other) Assistant General Counsel Tallahassee, Florida 2009 - 2010 July 2009 – Dec 2010 Assistant General Counsel
Completed legal tasks related to management of Department of Labor grants to Florida, including audits under state and federal law and procurement. Completed legal tasks related to management of a Florida agency, including reviews of contracts and data sharing agreements, advising human resources on non-routine issues, responding to public records requests, reviews of electronic records systems for compliance with state and federal requirements, assessing issues regarding access to public benefits, and reviewing proposed legislation. Assisted senior attorneys in preparing court filings, guidance to agency program areas, master contracts, and agency policies. Legal research in Lexis-Nexis, FastCase, and government websites. Document exchange in Sharepoint. July 2009 – Aug 2010 40 hrs/wk; Sept 2010 – Dec 2010 30 hrs/wk.
Florida State University, College of Law, Research Center (aka Law Library) (Special Library) Researcher, Florida Supreme Court Video Projecgt Tallahassee, FL 2008 - 2009 July 2008 – June 2009 Florida Supreme Court Video Project
Digitized videos of court proceedings for upload to the internet. Redacted and collated scanned documents using Adobe Acrobat Professional. Uploaded content to the Research Center’s website and linked content using HTML to allow discovery by browsing from www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/ . Performed research on behalf of professors. July-Dec. 2008 35 hrs/wk; Jan.-June 2009 15 hrs/wk; July 2009 – Dec. 2009 5 hrs/wk.
Education
- Bachelors of Science, Zoology, 2003
University of Florida
Juris Doctorate, Law, 2008
Florida State University College of Law
Masters, Library and Information Studies, 2011
Florida State University College of Information
Publications
- Publications
Tools for Reducing and Managing Link Rot in LibGuides (provisionally accepted), Code4Lib Journal, Issue16, forthcoming Spring 2012.
Presentation on “Automated Metadata Creation: Possibilities and Pitfalls” has been accepted and will be presented at the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 27th Annual Conference, June 7-10, 2012 in Nashville, TN.
My SSRN page with unpublished working papers may be viewed at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1105052
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