Profile

Doug Boyd

Website: http://clevelandhistory.org/members/daboyd/

Twitter handle: nunncenter

About:
Doug Boyd serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries. Previously he managed the Digital Program for the University of Alabama Libraries, served as the Director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission and prior to that as the Senior Archivist for the oral history and folklife collections at the Kentucky Historical Society. Boyd serves as the co-general editor for the Kentucky Remembered series for the University Press of Kentucky, and serves as project director for the IMLS funded project "Oral History in a Digital Age," a partnership between Michigan State University's MATRIX, Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Oral History Association as well as the American Folklore Society. Designed the award winning Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Digital Media Database [http://205.204.134.47/civil_rights_mvt/]. Primary interests include digital preservation of audio and video as well as digital access, usability and oral history interfaces. Most recently, Boyd designed the oral history interface for the Kentuckiana Digital Library. Doug Boyd received his Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University and his undergraduate degree in history from Denison University in Granville, OH.