About the Author

Meridith Beck Mink is an experienced researcher and consultant. She has worked extensively with libraries, archives, museums, and communities of higher learning. She was responsible for implementing the assessment, including designing the interview protocols and surveys, and writing the final report. She is the lead researcher on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) assessment of the National Digital Stewardship Residency programs. She was a CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Early Modern Studies at Indiana University and received a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.