Kenning Arlitsch
Education
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
School of Library and Information Science
December 1993
MLIS
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BA English Literature
Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY
AAS Business Administration
1987
1985
Professional Development and Honors
“Movers and Shakers” Library Journal
Association of Research Libraries
Research Libraries Leadership Fellows program
Frye Leadership Institute, Emory University
University of Utah, Academic Outreach and Continuing Education
Webmaster Certificate, Salt Lake City, Utah
2009
2008-2009
2005
2000
Languages
German - proficient
Experience
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Associate Dean for IT Services
Report to the Library Dean and work collaboratively with other
members of the executive leadership team to set library directions.
Lead a team of 20+ staff responsible for enterprise IT applications
and digital library development, including digitization, programming,
ILS, website design and development, intranet, and systems
administration. Establish vision, goals and priorities, assess
2007 -
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outcomes and evaluate staff, manage budgets. Serve as IT liaison to
campus. Co-founded the Western Soundscape Archive, led a major
ILS migration.
OCLC Inc.
Sabbatical
Researching search engine optimization for digital repositories;
consulting with OCLC on network-level library technologies; grant
Sept 2010 August 2011
writing; publishing.
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Head of Information Technology
Led library’s IT objectives by managing application development,
digitization, ILS, staff desktop systems, and Web services.
2004-2007
Managed departmental budget, hired personnel, set goals and
priorities, evaluated outcomes.
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Head of Digital Technologies
Led the library's digitization projects and application
programming with staff of ten. Developed database applications
1998 - 2004
and technologies for use in the library's website. Founded the
Mountain West Digital Library and Utah Digital Newspapers
programs; co-founded Western Waters Digital Library.
US Embassy, Nicosia, Cyprus
USIA/ALA International Library Fellow
One of 12 librarians selected to represent the U.S.
internationally. Established database consortium to purchase
country’s first full-text online databases. Trained staff in the use
1997 –1998
of various technologies. Established international electronic
document delivery system for the medical community in Cyprus,
and created database of Cypriot medical literature.
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Technology Instruction Librarian
Trained students, staff, and faculty in the use of information
technologies, databases, Internet, software applications, and
operating systems. Coordinated construction of two hands-on
1994 - 1998
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teaching labs; co-developed and taught Internet Navigator, Utah's
first online Internet instruction course.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Library & Information
Science
Teaching Assistant and ESL Instructor
Taught undergraduate-level library instruction courses. Taught
1992 - 1994
English grammar, reading, writing and library terminology to
international librarians to help prepare them for graduate-level
courses.
Information Access Company, Foster City, CA
Indexer-Editor
Indexed a wide variety of trade journals, newswires, and
newspapers for the InfoTrac® line of databases.
1989 - 1992
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Grants
 UNDER CONSIDERATION “Collaborative Research: Celebrated Frogs - Natural Science
Education Through the Lens of Domestic Amphibian Declines,” $1.7 million. Submitted
January 2012 to the National Science Foundation. Principal Investigators (PI): Kenning
Arlitsch, University of Utah and David Wake, University of California-Berkeley; Co-PI: Laura
Hunter, Utah Education Network; Co-PI: Jeff Rice, Puget Sound Institute, University of
Washington.
 “Getting Found: Search Engine Optimization for Digital Repositories,” $878,820, November
2011 – October 2014. Funded by Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) National
Leadership Grants category. PI: Kenning Arlitsch; Co-PI: Patrick OBrien, University of Utah.
 “The Western Soundscape Archive,” $707,000, November 2007 – October 2011. Funded by
IMLS National Leadership Grants category. PI: Kenning Arlitsch; Co-PI: Jeff Rice, University
of Utah.
 “Open Source ILS Evaluation,” $55,000 (non-competitive grant), October 2007 – July 2008.
Funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). PI: Kenning Arlitsch.
 “Building Utah’s Digital Repository,” $71,000, June 2006 – Sep. 2007. Funded by LSTA. PI:
Kenning Arlitsch.
 “EAD Pilot Project,” $7,500, January – September 2004. Funded by LSTA. PI: Kenning
Arlitsch.
 “Western Waters Digital Library,” (with the Greater Western Library Alliance Digital Projects
Task Force) $450,000, 2003 –2005. Funded by IMLS National Leadership Grants category. PI:
Adrian Alexander, GWLA; Co-PI: Kenning Arlitsch, University of Utah; Co-PI: Carmel Bush,
Colorado State University; Co-PI: Ann Lally, University of Washington; Co-PI: Catherine
Murray-Rust, Oregon State University; Co-PI: Katherine Walter, University of Nebraska; CoPI: Beth Forrest Warner, University of Kansas; Co-PI: Karen Williams, University of Arizona.
 “Utah Historical Newspapers,” $1,020,000, 2003-2005. Funded by IMLS National Leadership
Grants category. PI: Kenning Arlitsch; Co-PI: John Herbert, University of Utah.
 “State-wide Newspaper Collection and Digitization,” $282,000, 2003. Funded by LSTA. PI:
Kenning Arlitsch.
 "A Digital Collections Server for Utah," $70,000, 2001- 2002. Funded by LSTA. PI: Kenning
Arlitsch.
 "Digitizing Utah Newspapers," $93,000, 2001-2002. Funded by the LSTA. PI: Kenning
Arlitsch.
 "Cyprus Medical Libraries Project," $30,000, 1998-2002. Funded by the Middle East Cancer
Consortium. PI: Andreas Savva; Co-PI: Kenning Arlitsch.
Grant Technical Advisory Roles
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“Western Archival Network planning grant,” November 2011 – October 2012. Funded by IMLS
National Leadership Grants category. PI: Greg Thompson, University of Utah.
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“Chronicles in Preservation,” May 2011 – April 2013. Funded by the National Endowment for
the Humanities. PI: Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute.
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“Utah Climate Literacy Partnership,” June – November 2009. Funded by the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting. PI: Laura Hunter, Utah Education Network.
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“Utah Manuscripts Association Encoded Archival Description and Digital Linking Project,”
2008-2009. Funded by LSTA. PI: Bradford Cole, Utah State University.
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Publications
Arlitsch, Kenning and Patrick S. OBrien. “Invisible Institutional Repositories: Addressing the
Low Indexing Ratios of IRs in Google Scholar,” Library Hi Tech. Vol 30, no. 1, March 2012, pp.
60-81.
Arlitsch, Kenning and Patrick S. O’Brien. Improving the Visibility and Use of Your Digital
Library: Helping Internet Search Engines Find and Gather Content from your Digital
Repositories. LITA Guide books, ALA Editions. Anticipated publication date: late 2012.
Arlitsch, Kenning. “The Espresso Book Machine: A Change Agent for Libraries”, Library Hi Tech.
Vol 29, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 62-72. Outstanding Paper Award, Literati Network Awards for
2012.
Maloney, Krisellen, Kristin Antelman, Kenning Arlitsch and John Butler. “Future Leaders’ Views
on Organizational Culture,” College & Research Libraries, July 2010, vol 71 no. 4, pp 322-347.
Arlitsch, Kenning, Anna Neatrour and Jeff Rice. “Western Soundscape Archive” featured
collection in D-Lib Magazine, November/December 2008.
Arlitsch, Kenning, Nancy T. Lombardo and Joan M. Gregory. “Another Kind of Diplomacy:
International Resource Sharing” Resource Sharing and Information Networks, Vol 18, No 1/2,
2005/2006, pp. 105-120. Republished in Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships that
Work. William Miller and Rita M. Pellen, ed. Haworth Press 2005/2006.
Arlitsch, Kenning and Jeff Jonsson. “Aggregating distributed digital collections in the Mountain
West Digital Library with the CONTENTdm Multi-Site Server” Library Hi-Tech, Vol 23, No 2,
2005, pp. 220- 232.
Salem, Susan and Kenning Arlitsch. “The Western Waters Digital Library: Providing Solutions
through Collaboration and Technology.” Proceedings of the ACRL 12th National Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, April 7-10, 2005. Retrieved September 23, 2005 from
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/salem05.pdf
Arlitsch, Kenning and John Herbert. “Microfilm, Paper, and OCR: Issues in Newspaper
Digitization in the Utah Digital Newspapers Program.” Microform & Imaging Review. Spring 2004,
Vol. 33 No. 2, pp59-67.
Herbert, John, and Kenning Arlitsch. “digitalnewspapers.org: The Digital Newspapers Program at
the University of Utah.” The Serials Librarian. Vol 47 nos. 1 and 2, November 2003, pp. 99-115.
Arlitsch, Kenning, Yapp, L. and Karen Edge. “The Utah Digital Newspapers Project.” D-Lib
Magazine. Vol 9 no 3, March 2003.
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Arlitsch, Kenning. "Digitizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for a Full Color, Publicly Accessible
Collection." D-Lib Magazine. vol. 8 no. 7/8, July-August 2002.
Lombardo, Nancy T., Kenning Arlitsch and Joan M. Gregory. "Cyprus Medical Libraries Project:
International Collaboration for Electronic Document Delivery and Full-Text Database
Development."Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship. (27), Summer 2000
Lombardo, Nancy T., Kenning Arlitsch and Andreas Savva. "Cyprus Medical Libraries Project:
International Collaboration for Electronic Document Delivery and Full Text Database
Development."Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship, London, July
2-5, 2000.
Arlitsch, Kenning. (1998). “Report on Activities in Cyprus: 1997-98 USIA/ALA Library Fellows
Program.” Retrieved June 4, 2004 from American Library Association website:
http://www.ala.org/ala/iro/awardsactivities/cyprus97-98.pdf
Arlitsch, Kenning. "Building Instruction Labs at the University of Utah," Research Strategies, vol.
16 no. 3 (1998) pp. 199-210.
Arlitsch, Kenning. "The Internet: Lording Over or Overload?" Graphic Arts Journal, vol. 27, no. 1:
(January 1997): pp. 8-11.
Arlitsch, Kenning and Ann Marie Breznay. Information Systems Handbook, 4th Ed. Revised.
University of Utah, 1997.
Dimitroff, Alexandra and Kenning Arlitsch. "Self-Citations in the Library and Information
Science Literature," Journal of Documentation, vol. 51, no. 1: (March 1995): pp. 44-56.
Selected Presentations
“Scientists and Librarians Create an Environmental Toxicology Repository” (with Deborah Keil),
accepted to the Science and the Internet conference, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 1-3, 2012.
“Google Scholar and Institutional Repositories: Improving IR Discoverability,” (with Patrick
OBrien), ACRL E-learning Webinar, scheduled for June 6, 2012.
“SEO for Digital Repositories,” (with Patrick OBrien)
• Utah Library Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, April 27, 2012
• CNI Spring Membership Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2, 2012
• OCLC TAI CHI Webinar, March 16, 2012
• CNI Spring Forum, San Diego, CA, April 5, 2011
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“Improving Institutional Repository Visibility in Google and Google Scholar,” (with Patrick
O’Brien), Digital Library Federation Forum, Baltimore, MD, October 31, 2011.
“Deciding What To Do With the Time That is Given Us,” keynote presentation at the Iowa
Library Association Spring ACRL Conference, Pella, IA, March 18, 2011
“The Western Soundscape Archive,” Webwise Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 10, 2011
“Search Engine Optimization for Digital Collections” (with Patrick O’Brien and Sandra
McIntyre), Digital Library Federation Forum, November 2, 2010
“The Western Soundscape Archive: Recording the Sounds of the West,” Escalante Canyons
Arts Festival, Escalante, UT, September 25, 2010
“How Future Library Leaders Perceive their Organizational Cultures, and Why it Matters”
• Emporia State University library school program, Salt Lake City, UT, August 21, 2010
• Ninth House Leadership Institute, Utah State Library, Salt Lake City, UT, May 6, 2010
• Keynote address at CONTENTdm Midwest Users Group Meeting, Iowa City, IA, March 8,
2010
“Campus Library Technologies (and non-technologies),” Westnet CIO Conference, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, January 13, 2010
“A Decade of Digital Library Development”
• Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany,
Nov 5, 2009
• Hochschule for Technik, Wirtschaft, und Kultur, Leipzig, Germany, November 2, 2009
“The Future of Libraries is IT (and some people just don’t get IT)” (with Kristin Antelman),
LITA Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 1, 2009
“CONTENTdm as IR Software”, Institutional Repositories conference, Utah State University,
Logan, UT, September 30, 2009
“University Libraries ILS Purchase: Aleph and Primo”, presentation to the campus Information
Technology Council, University of Utah, June 10, 2009
“Finding Funding for Research and Practice”, Managing Cancer Information in Cyprus
conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 20, 2009
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“Open Source and the Academic Community: Evaluating the Evergreen ILS” (with John Craig),
Open Source ILS Symposium, Utah State Library, Salt Lake City, UT, October 22, 2008
“What are our Future Leaders Thinking?” (with Kristin Antelman, Krisellen Maloney, and John
Butler), Association of Research Libraries fall meeting, Alexandria, VA, October 16, 2008
“CONTENTdm Extensions: U-SKIS and Clip-Imp”, OCLC Showcase, ALA Annual Conference,
Anaheim, CA, June 28-2008
“IMLS/NEH Federal Funding Agencies: What and Whom to Know”, Joint conference of the
Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association, Salt Lake Ctiy, May 2, 2008
“Digital Library Development 2000-2008,” presentation at McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, January 23, 2008
“IR Workflow Software: Extending the Power of CONTENTdm for Institutional Repositories”
(with Anne Morrow), OCLC Showcase, ALA Midwinter, Philadelphia, PA, January 13, 2008
“State-wide EAD,” Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, April 6, 2007
“Digital Repository,” Utah State Board of Regents, Salt Lake City, UT, January 12, 2007
“Mountain West Digital Library,” Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois
(CARLI), Chicago, IL, November 15, 2006
“Digital Preservation: Purposes, Approaches, and Practices”, Greater Western Library Alliance
directors meeting, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, September 18, 2006
”State-Wide Digitization Initiatives” (with John Herbert), IFLA 2006 International Newspapers
Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, May 18, 2006
“Collaboration and Partnerships: Opportunities Abound” – American Library Association
Midwinter Conference, San Antonio, TX, January 22, 2006
“How to Prepare for Digitization of Newspapers.” OCLC Western Digital Forum – Focus on
Newspapers, Portland, OR, August 11-12, 2005
“Early History of the Utah Digital Newspapers.” Utah Digital Newspapers Training Workshop,
Marriott Library, July 13, 2005
“Digital Repositories: An Expanding Role for Libraries.” OCLC Digital Repositories Forum,
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American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, June 28, 2005
“Western Waters Digital Library: Providing Solutions through Technology” (with Susan Salem),
ACRL Twelfth Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN April 8, 2005
“Digital Collections Tour” and “Working with CONTENTdm”, University of North Carolina –
Chapel Hill, March 21, 2005
“Western Waters Digital Library” (with Carol Hixson). CNI Task Force Meeting, Portland, OR.
December 6, 2004
“All the News that’s fit to Digitize: Approaches to Historic Newspaper Digitization” (with Richard
Urban Susan Benz, and Gwynne Langley). Museum and Computer Network Conference,
Minneapolis, MN. November 12, 2004
“Utah’s History in Digital Newspapers” (with John Herbert). Utah Education Association
Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. October 29, 2004
“LOCKSS, Utah Digital Newspapers, Western Waters Digital Library (with Vicky Reich, John
Herbert, and Susan Salem). Utah Library Association Annual Conference, Ogden, UT, May 6,
2004
“Mentoring and Faculty Librarians” (with Julene Butler, Jeffrey Belliston, and Dale Larsen).
Utah Library Association Annual Conference. Ogden, UT. May 7, 2004
“Western Waters Digital Library” (with Susan Salem). Utah Library Association Annual
Conference. Ogden, UT. May 7, 2004
“State-wide Digital Consortia: Establishing and Maintaining the Mountain West Digital Library”
(with Sarah Michalak). Wisconsin Library System, Madison, WI. March 24, 2004
“Utah Digital Newspapers and the Mountain West Digital Library” (with John Herbert).
Conference of Intermountain Archivists, April 30, 2004
“CONTENTdm at the University of Utah”. American Library Association Midwinter Conference,
San Diego, CA. January 2004
“Utah Digital Newspapers” (with John Herbert). American Library Association Midwinter
Conference, San Diego, CA. January 2004
“Digital Projects with CONTENTdm at the University of Utah.” Suffolk County Cooperative
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Library System, Bellport, NY. October 27, 2003
“The Mountain West Digital Library” Southeast Idaho Library Consortium, Pocatello, ID,
August 21, 2003
“The Mountain West Digital Library.” Utah Library Association Annual Conference. May 9, 2003
“The Mountain West Digital Library and CONTENTdm: a workshop.” Conference of
Intermountain Archivists. April 10, 2003
“Preserving Our Newspapers” (with Randy Silverman and Margaret Brady). Utah Press
Association 110th Winter Convention, Mesquite, NV, March 22, 2003
“CONTENTdm Training”, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT, January 16, 2003
“The Mountain West Digital Library: a multi-site, statewide digital collection resource by the
Utah Academic Library Consortium.” CNI Task Force Meeting, San Antonio, TX. December 5,
2002
“Creating Digital Collections with CONTENTdm” and “CONTENTdm Training”, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, July 12, 2002
“Historical Photos on the Web: Possibilities for the Great Basin Association/Great Basin National
Park”, Baker, NV, March 7, 2002
“Marriott Library Digitization Center: Creation of the Center, Problems and Solutions, and
Future Growth.” Weber State University. March 22, 2001
“Cyprus Medical Library Project: International Collaboration for Electronic Document Delivery
and Full Text Database Development” (with Nancy T. Lombardo). International Congress on
Medical Librarianship, London, England. 2000
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COMMITTEES
National:
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Ex Libris Users of North America Conference local arrangements, co-chair (2011-2012)
CONTENTdm Users Western Region Conference, chair (2010)
IMLS National Leadership Grant Reviewer, 2008, 2009
Digital Collections Committee, Greater Western Library Alliance (2007- 2010)
Digital Projects Task Force, Greater Western Library Alliance, chair (2002-2005)
ALA State-wide Digitization Planners (2003-2006)
State:
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Systems Committee, Utah Academic Library Consortium (2009 - )
State Library Open Source ILS Committee (2007- 2008)
Technical advisor to Utah Manuscripts Association state-wide EAD program (2007- 2009)
Utah Education Network Steering Committee (2007- )
Digitization Committee, Utah Academic Library Consortium, chair (2001-2005)
Library Services and Technology Act Council, State Library (2002-2007)
Utah Library Association Computer and Digital Technologies Round Table (2004)
University of Utah
• IT Council (2005- )
• IT Executive Council (2005- )
• Cyberinfrastructure Council (2011- )
o Data Management Subcommittee (2011- )
• Institutional Repository Team (2005-2007)
• Knowledge Management Committee (2004-2007)
• Media on Demand Committee (2004-2007)
• RPT Working Group, University of Utah librarians (2003-2004)
Marriott Library
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Executive Council (2006- )
Full Librarian Promotion Committee, chair (2011)
Technology Services Council, chair (2009- )
Business Ventures and Partnerships Committee, chair (2009- 2010)
Planning and Assessment Task Force (2007)
New Roles Task Force (2007)
Marriott Advisory Council (2007- )
Organizational Review Task Force (2006)
ILS Development Council (2006 - )
Services Planning Task Force (2006)
Library director search committee (2005)
Technology Instruction Librarian (TACC) search committee (2005)
Digital Technologies Librarian search committee, chair (2004)
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Marriott Library Strategic Planning Committee, co-chair (2004)
Web Services Librarian search committee, chair (2003)
Marriott Librarians, chair (2003)
Mentoring Group (1998-2004) (chair, 1999-2003)
Marriott Library Advisory Council (2002- )
Systems Advisory Committee (2001- ) (co-chair 2006-2009)