Text Artisan Guild

Electronic text.
Durable and attractive,
free to all users.

Hello, and welcome to Text Artisan Guild, Dorothea Salo’s professional website.

I am a librarian in Madison, Wisconsin, where I run an institutional repository for the University of Wisconsin System. I have also worked as an SGML/XML producer and typesetter for a scholarly-publishing services bureau, a teacher of college Spanish, and a maintainer of Visual Basic code-spaghetti for a survey-research organization.

My professional interests include:

• The movement for open access to the research and scholarly literature
• The care and feeding of institutional repositories
• Installing, configuring, updating, and customizing DSpace software.
• Social software and its use in libraries.
• Online professional education and its use in redressing professional divides.
• The progress of women in technical fields, systems librarianship especially.

I have been invited to speak for library schools, library associations, publisher consortia, trade associations, and major companies. I have also given preconference tutorials and conference talks on DSpace, library standards, and electronic books. My weblog has been active for over five years.