education
2018 PhD in Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
2013 MA in Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
2011 BA in Classical Civilization, University of Richmond
experience
2023-present
Head of Digital Scholarship Services, University of Pittsburgh, University Library System
2020-2023
Digital Scholarship Librarian & Digital Scholarship Program Lead, University of California, Riverside Library
2018-2020
CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Science Data Curation, University Libraries, University at Buffalo
2018
ILiADS Digital Scholarship Liaison, Occidental College
2017-2018
Digital Scholarship Graduate Assistant, Library & IT Services, Bryn Mawr College
2013
Graduate Intern, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College
2012-2013
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Classical & Near Eastern Archaeology Department, Bryn Mawr College
2009-2011
Slide, Gallery, and Website Assistant, Classical Studies Department, University of Richmond
research interests
Digital scholarship in academic libraries, critical digital pedagogy, humanities data management, sustaining interdisciplinary communities of practice, accessibility in data visualization and digital projects
language + technical skills
Programming languages used: R, Java, JavaScript, C++, Ruby on Rails
Markup languages used: HTML/CSS, XML, Markdown
Reading proficiency: German, French, Latin, Ancient Greek
Digital research methods experience: data visualization, digital mapping, digital collections management, project management, quantitative text analysis, network analysis, web publishing
publications
Enriquez, S., C. Lamar-Prieto, R. Starry, A. Hoff, and K. Boehlert. 2023. “Transforming Digital Pedagogies for Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Collaborative Instruction and Latinx Archives,” in Supporting Your Hispanic Students in Academic Libraries, ed. S. Browning and I. Soto-Luna. Library Juice Publishing.
Starry, R. 2022. “A Modular Approach to Data Visualization Instruction,” in The Data Literacy Cookbook, ed. K. Getz and M. Brodsky. ACRL Publications.
Starry, R. 2022. “Color and Accessible Design,” in The Data Literacy Cookbook, ed. K. Getz and M. Brodsky. ACRL Publications.
Starry, R. 2022. “Choosing a Data Visualization Tool,” in The Data Literacy Cookbook, ed. K. Getz and M. Brodsky. ACRL Publications.
Starry, R., M. Brunner, M. Sisk, and S. Tennant. 2021. “Remaking Space and Place: Geographies of Engaged Digital Scholarship,” in The Curated Futures Project: A Third Library is Possible, ed. F. Day, S. Smith, C. Williford, J. Reeves Eyre, and J. Maclachlan. Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Report. https://futures.clir.org/space-and-place/.
Starry, R. and K. Boehlert. 2021. “Building Virtual Community through Digital Scholarship Meetups,” Pop! Public. Open. Participatory, Issue 3 (Engaging Open Social Scholarship Conference Proceedings). DOI: 10.54590/pop.2021.003.
Klotzbach-Russell, C., E. Rowley, and R. Starry. 2021. “Librarians in the LaunchPad: Building Partnerships for Entrepreneurial Information Literacy,” Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship. DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2021.1982567.
Dodson, H. L. and R. Starry. 2020 (forthcoming, delayed due to COVID-19) “Building Capacity through Community: Communication and Assessment Strategies for Developing Academic Library Services for Digital Scholarship,” in Essays on Developing Digital Scholarship Services, ed. P. P. Mitchem and D. Rice. McFarland Publishing.
UC Riverside Library. 2020. UCR Library Digital Scholarship Working Group (DSWG) Report: Findings and Recommendations for a Digital Scholarship Program. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39n4b1ht
Association for Computers and the Humanities. 2020. Toward anti-racist technical terminology. https://ach.org/toward-anti-racist-technical-terminology/
Dixson, N., G. Milliken, K. Mukunda, R. Murray, and R. Starry. 2019. GeoJSON Data Curation Primer. Data Curation Network. https://github.com/DataCurationNetwork/data-primers
national service
2021-2023
Member, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Digital Scholarship Section (DSS), Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
2021-2022
Member, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Digital Scholarship Section (DSS), Conference Program Planning Committee
2020-2021
Member, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Nominations Committee
2020-2022
Member and Liaison to ILiADS, Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Affiliation and Liaison Committee
2019-2022
Communication Coordinator, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) Steering Committee
2018-2019
Liaison Coordinator, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) Steering Committee
professional service
2022-
Member, dh+lib Editorial Team
2021-
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/jcdl/
2020-2022
Committee Member, Ancient MakerSpaces 2021 and Ancient MakerSpaces 2022
2018-2020
Committee Member, New York Digital Humanities Symposium
2018-
Peer Reviewer, Digital Humanities Quarterly. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
institutional service
2022-2023
Chair, Executive Board of the Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2021-2022
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Executive Board of the Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2021-2022
Chair, Personnel Committee, Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2020-2022
Co-Chair, Diversity Committee, Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2020-2022
Member, Research & Professional Development Committee, Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2020-2022
LAUC-R Representative to the Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC)
2020-2023
UC Riverside Library Representative, University of California Scholarly Communications Common Knowledge Group (SC-CKG)
2020-2021
Secretary, Executive Board of the Librarians Association of the University of California, Riverside Chapter (LAUC-R)
2019-2020
Coordinator, Digital Humanities Research Workshop, University at Buffalo
workshops taught
Summer 2022 (UC Riverside Library): Using Zotero for Citation Management; Introduction to Data Visualization
Spring 2022 (UC Riverside Library): Choosing Geospatial Tools (co-led); Exploring Oral Histories using Voyant Tools (co-led)
Winter 2022 (UC Riverside Library): Advanced Zotero Citation Management; Getting Started with Network Data Using Gephi; Using GitHub Pages for Personal and Academic Websites
Fall 2021 (UC Riverside Library): Prepare and Visualize Your Data in Excel (co-led); Copyright for Graduate Students and Academic Authors; Making Memes: Using Public Domain and Creative Commons Images (co-led)
Summer 2021 (UC Riverside Library): Creating Infographics with Tableau
Spring 2021 (UC Riverside Library): Using Zotero for Citation Management; Text Analysis Tools from the HathiTrust Research Center; Introduction to Digital Publishing: Choosing a Platform (co-led)
Winter 2021 (UC Riverside Library): Collaborating and Coordinating Research Projects While Remote (co-led); Introduction to Digital Humanities and Humanities Data; Scalar: A Publishing Platform for Digital Scholarship
Fall 2020 (UC Riverside Library): Finding and Using Open and Affordable Educational Resources (co-led); Using the Open Science Framework (OSF) for Reproducible Research (co-led); Advanced Zotero Citation Management; Introduction to Text Mining and Analysis
Summer 2020 (UC Riverside Library): Zotero and the Archive: Managing Your Archival Research Materials (co-led); Top 5 Tools for Sharing Your Research Online; Introduction to Network Analysis; Introduction to Data Visualization
Spring 2020 (UC Riverside Library): Using Zotero for Citation Management (co-led)
Spring 2020 (University at Buffalo Libraries): Planning a Digital Project Pipeline; Intro to Data Visualization
Fall 2019 (University at Buffalo Libraries): ArcGIS StoryMaps; Research Data Management (co-led); Data Visualization with R + ggplot2; Intro to Network Analysis
Summer 2019 (University at Buffalo Libraries): Data Visualization Essentials; Data Wrangling with OpenRefine; Text Mining & Analysis; Text Processing with Regular Expressions
Spring 2019 (University at Buffalo Libraries): Play with Data on Databasic.io (co-led); Introduction to Wikidata; Introduction to Data Visualization; Research Data Management (co-led); Infographics with Tableau Public; How to Choose a Web Publishing Platform (co-led); Text Analysis Tools from the HathiTrust Research Center
selected presentations
April 2022 (invited panelist)
California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference.
From Beginner to Inherent Practice: A Panel on Incorporating Critical Theory in Library Instruction
November 2021 (roundtable)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum
Weaving Knowledge Networks: What are your library inreach strategies?
October 2021 (panel)
University of California (UC) Libraries Forum
Digital Infrastructure Is People
August 2021 (paper)
Special Libraries Association (SLA) Annual Conference
Librarians in the LaunchPad
June 2021 (panel)
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Online Edition, Open/Social/Digital Humanities Pedagogy, Training, and Mentorship
Decolonizing the Archive through Digital Pedagogies: The Tomás Rivera Archive at the University of California, Riverside
April 2021 (roundtable)
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference
Cultivating Virtual Communities of Practice
December 2020 (lightning talk)
Engaging Open Social Scholarship Conference, An Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership
Building Virtual Community through Digital Scholarship Meetups
November 2020 (tutorial)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum
Accessible Design for Data Visualizations
January 2020 (poster)
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Washington, DC
The Digital Archaeology Toolkit Project: Prototypes and Next Steps
January 2020 (lightning talk)
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Washington, DC
Modeling Movement, or When Not To Model
October 2019 (paper)
Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Tampa, FL
Curating a Digital Archaeology Toolkit
October 2019 (panel)
Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference, Lewisburg, PA
ILiADS: The Journey
July 2019 (panel)
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
Overcoming Challenges and Breaking Down Barriers: Digital Scholarship Support Within and Beyond the University
January 2019 (roundtable)
Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), San Diego, CA
Curating a Crowd-sourced Digital Archaeology Toolkit