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• 1 2022-05-09T07:30:21-07:00 The Library Team 27 plain 2023-08-04T10:55:17-07:00 The OHL's Library team is led by Prof. Jaquelina Alvarez, and also includes professors José J. Morales Benítez and Grisell Rodríguez. The Library team is in charge of archiving the oral history interviews generated as part of the OHL's activities and designing policies and procedures to facilitate their long-term preservation. The Library is also tasked with disseminating and providing access to the oral histories, as well as creating online guides on topics related to the project, such as digital preservation and oral history methodology.
  
  To see the products generated by the Library as part of this project, visit the page titled "The Library's Contributions".
  
  Finally, UPRM General Library houses the OHL's physical spaces, which include a room especially designed for conducting oral history interviews and smaller spaces for video editing.
  
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  Jaquelina E. Alvarez is the Coordinator of the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC). She organizes and teaches workshops and training sessions on information and digital literacy, scholarly communication, intellectual property, and data management. She has worked to incorporate information literacy into UPRM’s STEM curriculum by participating in programs sponsored by NSF, HHMI, NEH, and DoEd. She was Co-Director of the Transformational Initiative for Graduate Education and Research (TIGER), a five-year $2.6 million grant awarded by the DoEd under the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. Also, she serves as Senior Personnel and Data Manager of the Nanotechnology Center (UPRM-NSF CREST, 2014-2022). Jaquelina was the PI of a NEH Chairman’s Emergency Grant (NEH Award PB- 260678-18) and a co-PI of the "Building Capacity for Collection Care and Disaster Preparedness" project (NEH Award PG-263517-19). She holds an M.A. (1997) and Specialist Certificate (1999) in Library and Information Studies from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a graduate of ACRL's Information Literacy Immersion Program and the DuraSpace e-Science Institute.
  
  Jose J. Morales-Benitez is the Research Services Librarian in the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) at the General Library of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). He provides support services to graduate students and faculty in all stages of the research process. José designs and delivers workshops on topics like research data management, scholarly communications, open access, and discovery and evaluation of scientific information sources. He has also published numerous online guides and instructional videos on these and other topics related to research. Additionally, José helps manage Scholar@UPRM, which is UPRM’s institutional repository, providing support to graduate students and faculty in the deposit process and checking for metadata consistency. José obtained his MIS in 2018 from the Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technologies of the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. As a librarian with a proactive and community-driven mindset, José seeks to develop activities, services, and products that enhance engagement between the library and its patrons, both within the institution and beyond.
  
  Grisell Rodriguez is the English and Humanities Library Liaison, serves as the Electronic Resources Librarian, manages and maintains digital research resources, supports graduate students and faculty in institutional repository deposits, develops and delivers training and workshops on research methods, emerging technologies, digital literacy, plagiarism, and citation management, and has taught the undergraduate Library Research Methods course (INTD 3355). She serves as one of the Senior Key Personnel of the Transformational Initiative for Graduate Education and Research (TIGER) Project from the U.S. Department of Education, Title V, Part B Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans Program (PPOHA) (2014-2021), and previously was the Project Coordinator for a Department of Education Title V Grant (2001-2004) for the creation of two library instruction labs. Grisell holds a MLIS (1996) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.