Anne GillilandÕs research in archival informatics concentrates on points where issues relating to recordkeeping, accountability, enterprise and societal memory intersect with technology within and across organizational, community and disciplinary domains. At a broader level, her work examines how this area can be instrumental in building and furthering archival research, theory, professional practice and education as well as the archival role as it is perceived and is instrumental in society. It also seeks to extend the scope of archival informatics to encompass investigations of the impacts of and upon diverse cultural epistemologies and practices of technologically, bureaucratically and juridically-centred approaches to archiving in the digital environment. Her most influential work, both nationally and internationally, has been the framing of recordkeeping concepts and perspectives, their integration with those from other areas, and the identification of the research and education infrastructures necessary to support further research and development.

Awards and Honors

• Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow, June 2002 – January 2003.
• Elected Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, 2000.
• C.F.W. Coker Award (for innovative development in archival description by the Encoded Archival Description Working Group), Society of American Archivists, September 1998.
• Margaret Cross Norton Award (best article published in Archival Issues, 1994-1995), Midwest Archives Conference, April 1997.

Current Research

• Principal Investigator, Pluralizing the Archival Paradigm: A Needs Assessment for Archival Education in Pacific Rim Communities, 2005-2006. (link to http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie/projects.htm)
• Co-Director , U.S. Team, InterPARES Project (International Project on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems);
  Member , InterPARES International Research Team
• Partner Investigator , Create Once, Use Many Times - The Clever Use of Metadata in eGovernment and eBusiness Processes In Networked Environments
• Evaluation Team Leader , Museums and the Online Archive of California II User Evaluation (MOACII) Project

Courses Taught:

• American Archives and Manuscripts
• Development of Multimedia Cultural Information Resources
• PhD Seminar in Information as Evidence
• PhD Seminar in Information-Seeking and Use
• Information Structures
• Introduction to Records Creation
• Issues and Problems in Archives and Library Preservation
• Management of Digital Records
• Records and Information Resources Management
• Seminar in Advanced Issues in Archival Science--Appraisal
• Seminar in Advanced Issues in Archival Science- Theoretical, Social, Political, and Cultural Aspects of Visual Materials in Archives

Research and Teaching Areas

• Design and evaluation of digital record-keeping, archival, museum and other evidence-based information systems
• Metadata for recordkeeping, preservation, and cultural information
• Digital libraries and undergraduate education
• Use of primary sources in K-12 and undergraduate education
• Archival research methods and education