Erin Clarke, Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellow, is joining the LED research group

The LED research group welcomes Erin Clarke this semester. Erin is the recipient of Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Enrichment Fellowship and a first-year doctoral student in Learning Technologies.

Erin completed a Master of Library Science with a specialization in Digital Libraries at Indiana University-Bloomington. While in graduate school she was awarded two competitive assistantships. The first, as Metadata Graduate Assistant at Library Technologies, Herman B Wells Library. The second, as an Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Graduate Assistant, at the Lilly Library and University Archives and Records Management. While at Indiana University, she was awarded the Information & Library Science Merit Scholarship created to support students with a record of academic excellence.

Before graduate from Indiana University, Erin worked as an EAD Intern at Library Technologies, Herman B Wells Library. During her work as an intern, she explored the origins and use of Encoded Archival Description, evaluated tools and methods in creation of EAD and offered professional development training. She ended her internship by co-presenting about the future of EAD at Indiana University’s libraries in-house conference.

From 2012 to 2013, Erin was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar at Lamar University. The Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program is a grant funded program by the U.S. Department of Education. Currently there are only 186 programs across the country. The purpose is to prepare, through research and other means, first-generation and low-income students or those underrepresented in their field for doctoral study. Coincidently, Erin directed this program at Lamar University as the Director of the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program before starting her doctoral studies at The Ohio State University.