Margo Padilla

Margo Padilla received her Master’s of Library and Information Science degree with a concentration in Management, Digitization and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Records from San Jose State University in 2011. During the course of her program, she became dedicated to digital stewardship because of the important role it will play in documenting American History. As she explains it, “Compared to the documented histories of other countries, America’s history will be largely digital and I believe it is our responsibility to preserve and make it accessible for future generations.”

After graduating, she accepted a position with The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley as the Digital Project Archivist on a National Park Service grant to create a digital archive of the Japanese American Evacuation and Relocation Study records.

She is currently the NDSR at University of Maryland Libraries and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities where she is researching and developing an access model that will better enable researchers to discover and use born-digital collections.