University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vicki Tobias

Vicki Tobias

Lecturer

Vicki Tobias

Biography

Education:

MLIS – UW-Madison (2003)
BA – UW-Seattle (1997) – Chinese language & literature
BA – University of Nebraska-Lincoln – History

Areas of interest:

Archives administration, digital curation and preservation, information policy, metadata, content management, media archives, digital collection development, local history research, genealogy, project management

Classes taught:

LIS 640 / 855 – Genealogy for Librarians

LIS 644 – Digital Tools, Trends and Debates

LIS 818 – Archives Accessioning and Appraisal

Recent Publications:

What’s on your mind? A Social Media Workshop. Wisconsin Library Services annual meeting at WiLS World (2015).

Living Social: Using Tumblr and Twitter to promote an academic archives. Archival Outlook (March/April 2015), pp 6, 25. Published by the Society of American Archivists.

A new beginning for the University Archives film collection. Friends News: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries (Spring 2013), pp 1, 10. Published by the UW-Madison Friends of the Library

Using Digitized Documents in the teaching of the University of Wisconsin’s Foreign Relations of the United States series. Passport v.42, no. 1 (April 2011), pp 14-21. Published by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations publication.

Website

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vickitobias