Trevor Owens

As a year comes to a close I try to round up and reflect a bit on this unit of time. This year 10th one of these year end reflective posts that I’ve written. You can see my reflections at the end of 2022,  2021,  2020, 2019,  2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012.

I’m a big fan of metacognition, so I get a lot out of taking time to round up, reflect, and try and synthesize things at least once a year. If you are curious about what I’ve been reading about, you can see the 50 books I read this year in order on Goodreads.

Year two as Director of Digital Services

At the start of 2022, I was about six months into my new role as the Director of Digital Services. This year I was really able to get into the swing of things. Early in the year, I was excited to be able to share out about the Library of Congress Digitization Strategy. If you are curious to learn a bit more about what kinds of things folks across the Digital Services Directorate are working on, you can check out some of these interviews I was able to get up over the course of the year with Thomas Crowley, Carly Boerrigter and Lauren Algee.

After Disruption is Complete

At the end of 2021, I shared that I was under contract on my next book, After Disruption a Future for Cultural Memory. At the end of 2022, I’d shared that I submitted the full draft manuscript for the book. For anyone interested, I’ve had open review drafts of the first and second half of the book, out online since July of 2022. I’m happy to share that the full manuscript of the book was well received by peer reviewers. This year I worked through a short set of revisions to the manuscript to address reviewer comments, developed the index for the book, and worked through two rounds of reviews of page proofs. The book has gotten some really great advance praise. I’m thrilled that this book will be available open access when it comes out. It looks like it should be published in May of 2024. So stay tuned for that.

Spanish Translation of Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation

The open access version of the Spanish translation of my last book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation was published earlier this year by the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. La teoría y el oficio de la preservación digital was produced by a team of library and information science experts led by Isabel Galina Russell. It was published earlier this year in print. I’m very grateful for the work this team put into making this book more accessible.