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Operations Officer

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Alex Kinnaman is the Assistant Director of Digital Libraries & Preservation at the University Libraries. She received her B.A. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and her Master of Information Technology from Virginia Tech. She joined Virginia Tech in 2017 as the Libraries' Digital Preservation Coordinator to design governance, policy, and guide practices for the digital preservation system and long-term maintenance of Virginia Tech's digital assets. In her current role, she coordinates the 2D and 3D digitization labs, digital collection management, and preservation practices for the Virginia Tech Digital Library. Her research areas include preservation strategies for complex digital objects like Digital Humanities, datasets, and 3D and extended reality models, and environmentally sustainable data curation practices. She is also interested in community cultural heritage collections, facilitating partnerships with community organizations in the greater Southwest Virginia region to extend digital asset curation support. 

Alex has been a faculty senator since 2023 after serving as an alternate from 2020-2023, including serving on the Faculty Senate Cabinet and as the Faculty Senate representative to the Commissions on Graduate and Professional Student Affairs, and other task forces. 

Contact: alexk93@vt.edu

Duties of the Operations Officer

  • To organize the election of faculty members to the senate based on the Faculty Senate Bylaws.
  • To maintain a current list of senators and their membership as senate representatives to all entities, including councils, commissions, committees and working groups.
  • To ensure that the following operations are completed: distributing the agenda prior to each meeting of the Faculty Senate; maintaining records, attendance, and minutes; distributing the Faculty Senate minutes to senators; posting Faculty Senate minutes on and maintaining the Faculty Senate website.