Elizabeth Mcaulay
Head Of Digital Library Program at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolElizabeth Mcaulay is a seasoned digital library leader with over a decade of experience directing product management for UCLA’s Digital Library Program, overseeing the main portal and several post-custodial cultural heritage projects. She focuses on making unique and rare collections—such as the International Digital Ephemera Project and the Frontera sound recordings—accessible for research, teaching, and creative expression through thoughtful metadata, UX, and program strategy. Her background blends scholarly training (MA, UNC Chapel Hill; BA, Cornell) with hands-on roles in digital publishing and collection development, giving her both curatorial and technical fluency. As Head of the program since 2015, she has scaled services that balance preservation, discovery, and community-facing digital scholarship. Colleagues value her organizational development skills and her ability to translate complex archival needs into practical, user-centered digital products.
10 years of coding experience
BA, BA at Cornell UniversityMA, MA at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish, Russian, French
Github Skills (71)
libgit210
expressions10
lorem-ipsum10
data-management10
data-cleaning10
versioning10
git-addons10
stable10
version-control10
openrefine10
spanish9
spreadsheet9
data-wrangling9
tidy9
csv9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emcaulay/lc-git
Jun 2021 - Apr 2023
Library Carpentry: Introduction to Git
Contributions:3 PRs, 33 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 10 months
git-clientmercuriallibgit2git-addonslibrary-carpentry
UCLALibrary/eureka
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
A repository of CSV files for ingest into UCLA Library's Digital Collections repository.
Contributions:15 reviews, 124 PRs, 485 pushes in 3 years 2 months
digital-collectionscsvcsv-filesuclaingest
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