Denise Troll Covey

Service to Carnegie Mellon

Institutional Repository

Responsible for campus-wide needs assessment for an institutional repository (IR) to archive and provide access to the cultural and intellectual life of Carnegie Mellon – 2003-present

• Oversee planning and progress on pilot project with the School of Design – 2005-present
• Convened and facilitated planning meetings with Computing Services – 2004-present
• Organized discussion with Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), campus faculty and representatives from Computing Services and the University Libraries – October 2004
• Submitted update to Faculty Senate and convened a meeting with Dan Boyarski, Head of School of Design, about pilot IR – September 2004
• Convened Open Town meeting and published an article in Focus – April 2004
• Gave presentation to the Faculty Senate – March 2004
• Gave presentation to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate – March 2004
• Gave presentation to the Provost and academic department heads – November 2003
• Conducted preliminary investigation to ascertain faculty interest – September-October 2003

Committees

• Web Forum
  • Web Forum General Assembly – September 2004-present
  • Web Forum Leadership Committee – July 2004-present
  • Content Management System (CMS) Subcommittee – October 2004-present
    • Co-Chair January 2005-present
  • Web (Portal) Implementation Team – May 2002-February 2004
    • Charter Evaluation Committee – June 2004
    • Portal Design Committee – May 2002-February 2004
    • Portal Policy Committee – December 2002-2003
• Faculty Senate Library Advisory Committee – 2002-2004
• Academic Department Heads – convened by Provost – September 2001- April 2004
  • Institutional repository – set agenda topic and led discussion – November 2003
  • Copyright permissions – set agenda topic and led discussion – February 2002
• University Computing Policy Advisory Committee – 2001-2002
• Search Committee for the Director of Office of Technology for Education (OTE) – 1999
• Computing Services’ Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) – 1996-2001

Meetings

• Annual conferences (delegation meetings) for the Million Book Project – January 2003 ( India ), May 2003 ( Pittsburgh , PA), May 2004 ( Pittsburgh , PA), October-November 2005 ( China ).
• Presidential Commission Open Forum reviewing the April 2004 Natrat and related issues – May 2004
• Emergency Response Liaison meeting – January 2002
• Computing Services Advisory Board meeting to discuss digital library and infrastructures issues – 2001
• Meeting with librarians from NSF-designated EPSCOR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) [prelude to the Million Book Project] – May 1999

Presentations and Consulting

• H&SS Career Forum, Professional Development Series. October 2004. Panelist on Research panel.
• Carnegie Mellon Homecoming. October 2002. Invited speaker: “Libraries in the 21 st Century.”
• Philosopy Department, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics. October 2001. Consultant for Research Associate in preparing a grant proposal for the Virtual Agora project.
• Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA). July 2001. Consultant for graduate students conducting market research for knowledge management applications. Software to analyze, de-dupe, and cluster search results intelligently: J. Crout and V. Rao. Software to automate and manage document conversions: M. Mellquist and C. Raineau
• Social and Decision Sciences. Fall 1999. Designed and mentored Information Systems class project to develop space modeling software for the reallocation of space in the three university libraries, calculate when library collection space will be inadequate given a specified growth rate, and how many books in each library must be moved to offsite storage to meet library standards for reader, staff and collection space.
• A Day at CMU. July 1993. Invited speaker: “The Mercury Electronic Library.”

Other Service to Carnegie Mellon

• Participating representative of Carnegie Mellon in EDUCAUSE – 1989-present
• Member Carnegie Mellon Women’s Association, 2004-present
• Invited and organized guest lecture by Dr. Charles Ess, Distinguished Research Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University: “How Diverse Cultural Values and Communication Preferences Shape Users and Uses of Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies.” August 2004.
• Participated in Freshmen Orientation luncheons in 2004 and several previous years.
• Documentation Coordinator, Academic Computing – 1987-1989 – Created, maintained, indexed and released help files for the Andrew Help System. Wrote and maintained user manuals about systems, networks, hardware and software developed or deployed on campus. Worked with campus software developers to design user interfaces. Tested software prior to release to campus. Supervised student writers.
• Training Coordinator, Academic Computing – 1988 – Coordinated a staff of trainers with expertise in different areas. Arranged schedules, rooms, hardware, software, and network connections. Prepared promotional materials and documentation for training sessions. Designed and gave lecture-demonstration and hands-on training seminars.
• Inter-university Consortium for Educational Computing (ICEC) – 1986 – Taught workshops on the UNIX-based Andrew System and CT authoring language to consortium faculty
• Writer and Editor (part-time), Office of the Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences – 1984-1986 – Wrote articles for the Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter. Edited books written by the Assistant Dean of H&SS.
• Writer (part-time), Robotics Institute – 1984-1985 – Wrote video scripts for artificial intelligence research projects. Co-authored an introductory programming manual.

See also Teaching.