Geneva Henry

Geneva Henry is the Executive Director of Rice University's Digital Library Initiative. She joined Rice in 2000 and has served as co-PI on a number of grants, including the Shoah Foundation Archives grant with the Mellon Foundation, the NSF Advanced Placement Digital Library NSDL grant with NSF, and a Hewlett Packard Philanthropy & Education Grant, “180 Terabytes of Unique History: Integrating Survivors of the Shoah Testimonies in the Rice Curriculum.” 

Geneva served as a distinguished fellow of the Digital Library Federation during the 2006 calendar year, focusing her research on development of a services framework for libraries.

From March 2002 through June 2005 she was also the temporary executive director for the Connexions project (http://cnx.rice.edu). In addition to chairing and serving on a number of committees at Rice, Geneva served as the General Chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in 2003, and has been a member of the Program Committee for JCDL 2004 – 2007. She also serves on the 2007 International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) Program Committee. In 2005 she was the co-chair of the inaugural JCDL doctoral consortium, and has participated in the subsequent consortiums as a mentor to the doctoral students.She currently serves on a number of advisory boards and committees including the Apple Mac Learning Environment, the LOCKSS Technical Policy steering committee, the CLOCKSS board, the DSpace advisory board, and the Digital Library Federation board.

Prior to joining Rice, Geneva was a Senior I/T Architect and Program Manager with IBM, where she was involved in planning, managing, architecting, and developing a number of complex systems for the US Department of Defense, universities, and museums world-wide. Her career has included applied research in artificial intelligence (expert systems and natural language processing), text search, data modeling, complex systems and digital libraries at IBM, TRW and the RAND Corporation.