Rebecca Welzenbach

About

The Text Creation Partnership's primary objective is to produce standardized, digitally-encoded editions of early print books. We partner with libraries and commercial publishers to fund this work. My job is to be the outward face of this project: to help scholars use the TCP in their work, to recruit new library partners, to maintain our website and social media presence, and to present on the work of the TCP at conferences and other events. 

Background

I graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University, where, as a columnist for my college newspaper, I won several headline-writing awards for flagrant use of really bad puns.  I completed my MSI at UM's School of Information and while there worked in the the UM Library Digital Conversion Unit, where I was project manager for the digitization of the Jon Cohen AIDS Library, the papers of a journalist who has studied and written extensively about HIV/AIDS.  (This collection is online at: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cohenaids/).  I began work at MPublishing as a part time electronic publishing assistant in April, 2009. From November 2009-August 2011 I was digital publishing project manager in MPublishing, primarily overseeing our ongoing journal publication work. In September 2011, I became the TCP Project Outreach Librarian