Frank Vitale IV

I serve on the Library Department faculty, providing archival and information literacy instruction as well as professional management of the University’s Archives and Special Collections.

I provide compensated and pro-bono consulting to numerous academic archives, historical societies, historic homes, and private collections.

• Manage digitization projects, including document digitization, file processing, and content management system maintenance
• Process, arrange, and describe analog and digital archival collections
• Prioritize and address archival backlogs

• Conducted extensive bibliographic metadata review to evaluate diversity, equity, and inclusion of PubMed Central
• Managed a four-member team data science project, enabling successful completion of all evaluative and reporting requirements
• Designed and implemented a systematic review of NLM/NEH inter-agency collaborative programming and participant sentiment analysis

• Supervised project discovery and implementation of an enterprise content management system, including document imaging and metadata development
• Maintained data retention and management policies, including archival and legacy materials
• Supported disaster recovery and incident response initiatives as well as auditing and cybersecurity compliance

• Managed digitization and reference services for public-facing digital projects
• Maintained and developed multiple Drupal-based content management systems
• Supervised teams of 3-5 digitization technicians, archives staff members, and volunteers
• Served as a subject area specialist in the history of medicine and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
• Managed social media channels for the library and archives
• Provided one-shot classroom instruction for information literacy and archival materials

• Built and managed search functionality for Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center using Drupal and ApacheSolr
• Tested crowdsourcing tool for recording oral histories and collecting personal documents
• Digitized and processed student folders and other historical documents, and compiled metadata

• Provided reference and technical assistance for undergraduate and graduate patrons
• Served on internal planning committees for outreach, library services, and policy development

• Developed and tested platforms for citizen archivist annotation and transcription
• Analyzed and incorporated best practices for data harvesting, reporting, and digital outreach for multiple crowdsourcing projects in history, linguistics, and museum studies

• Implemented digital migration, cataloging, and preservation workflows for at-risk audiovisual materials from optical discs based on appraised needs using Bagger, FileZilla, and CTS

Concentration in Archives

Dissertation Focus: Mortality at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (see Publications)

Concentration in History of Medicine

Dissertation Focus: History of Medicine at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (see Publications)