Karen Estlund is the Head of the Digital Scholarship Center for the University of Oregon Libraries and the Project Director for the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program. She is also a PhD student in Communication and Society. Karen received her M.L.I.S. in 2005 from the University of Washington. Prior to arriving in Oregon, Karen was a technology instruction librarian and oversaw the digital collections and institutional repository at the University of Utah, where she also taught web design in the Communication Department. Karen’s areas of expertise include information architecture, intellectual property, metadata and linked data, digitization, digital preservation, and scholarly communication.