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Victoria Van Hyning, MSt, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Library Innovation
University of Maryland, College of Information

Victoria is an Assistant Professor of Library Innovation at the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies at College Park. She arrived at the INFO College in 2020, after working at the Library of Congress on the By the People crowdsourced transcription platform for two years. Before that she lived and worked in the UK and earned degrees in English literature. As an academic and as a practitioner, she strives to create systems and experiences that widen access to information for a diverse range of people, and make space for people to tell their own stories and express their information needs. She served as a member of the drafting committee and a Project Manager for the new Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained. With the support of an IMLS early career grant she is conducting a three-year study "Crowdsourced Data: Accuracy, Accessibility, Authority (CDAAA)" to investigate whether crowdsourced transcriptions enhance the accessibility of digitized manuscript and printed resources in LAM collections.

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