Karen Gracy

Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
Contact Information
Email:
kgracy [at] kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-0049

Biography

Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., has developed and delivered coursework in digital preservation and curation, moving image archiving, preservation and conservation of cultural heritage materials, and archival description and representation. She completed her undergraduate degree in English and French (B.A.) at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an M.A. in critical studies of film and television, as well as an M.L.I.S. and Ph.D. in library and information science from UCLA. She is the author of Film Preservation: Competing Definitions of Value, Use, and Practice (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2007).

For a full list of publications, visit my Google Scholar page.

Fields of Study

 

Cultural Heritage Informatics Data/Information/Technology Information Organization Digital Humanities

 

Education

Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles; , M.L.I.S., University of California-Los Angeles; , M.A., University of California-Los Angeles; , B.A., University of California-Berkeley

Expertise

Digital Preservation, Preservation Education, Preservation of Moving Images, Social Contexts of Information Creation and Use, Focusing on Ethics and Values, Information Policy, Focusing on Intellectual Property Issues, Digital Curation, Linked Open Data, Moving image archiving

Publications

  • Film Preservation: Competing Definitions of Value, Use, and Practice, © 2009. ISBN: 978-0838910313
  • Gracy, K.F. (2007). Moving Image Preservation and Cultural Capital. Library Trends 56(1), 183-197. doi:10.1353/lib.2007.0050.
  • Gracy, K.F. Arch Sci (2004) 4: 335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-005-2599-3
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