Academic Library Leadership
I am an academic library leader with more than 16 years of experience developing digital strategy, research infrastructure, scholarly services, and institutional technology programs. My work focuses on the decisions libraries must make as research practices, digital systems, and artificial intelligence reshape academic work.
I have led multidisciplinary teams, major systems implementations, repository and preservation programs, cross-institutional partnerships, and grant-funded research platforms.
Leadership
My work brings together library services, research support, technology, organizational planning, and institutional partnerships. I have led long-term digital strategy, system implementation, staff development, policy work, project portfolios, and collaborative initiatives across academic and public library environments.
Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México
I lead digital strategy, research infrastructure, library technology, digital scholarship, and applied AI initiatives. My responsibilities include organizational planning, team coordination, systems evaluation, policy development, staff development, digital collections, metadata and preservation workflows, and collaboration with faculty, institutional units, and external partners.
San Joaquin Valley Library System
Managed a $6 million operating budget across 10 public library jurisdictions. Oversaw shared library systems, online payment services, planning, procurement, grant development, staff supervision, and long-term operational priorities.
Hispanic American Historical Review Online, Duke University Press
Created and led the journal’s digital counterpart. Coordinated online peer review, editorial workflows, international outreach, and the work of a 30-member team.
Selected Work
I lead institutional and research projects from initial concept through implementation, evaluation, and continued operation.
Project Lead
Led the design and evaluation of a grant-funded RAG platform for nearly 29,000 Mexican legal documents spanning approximately three centuries. The system combines lexical and vector retrieval, document-level citations, source verification, and evaluation methods for legal and historical research.
Project Lead
Leading the development of a grant-funded research platform for semantic and hybrid search across United Nations General Debate speeches from 1946 to 2025. The project supports source-grounded analysis and large-scale study of state discourse.
Local Project Lead
Led institutional participation in a MacArthur-funded human rights repository developed with the Center for Research Libraries, El Colegio de México, Universidad Iberoamericana, and UNAM. The platform preserves and provides structured access to documentation concerning disappearances in Mexico since 2006.
Project Lead
Led the development of an institutional repository ecosystem connecting Hyrax, Archivematica, Alma, Primo, metadata workflows, digital preservation, and thematic public interfaces. Projects developed through this infrastructure include Zapata Vive, Movimientos Armados, and other scholarly and cultural heritage collections.
Expertise
Writing and Speaking
My current work examines how academic libraries should evaluate, govern, and sustain AI-supported research services. I focus on retrieval quality, source provenance, traceability, staff capabilities, and the institutional effects of AI adoption.
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