Helen Tibbo

Tibbo's ancestors include Miles Standish and John Alden.[3] She attended Bridgewater State College and graduated with a BA in English in 1977.[2][4] She taught junior college for several years before enrolling in graduate studies.[3] Her Master's is in Library Science from Indiana University in 1983[4]. She then attended the University of Maryland where she obtained an MA in American Studies and a PhD in Library and Information Science in 1989.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was "Abstracts, Online Searching, and the Humanities".[3]

Tibbo joined the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science in 1989 where she taught archives, digital preservation, data curation and management.[2][5] In 2000, she began teaching Digital Preservation and Access, one of the first college courses to cover the topic.[3] Four years later she was appointed co-chair of the Digital Curation/Institutional Repositories Committee at the University of North Carolina, which involved the planning of UNC's institutional digital repository.[3]

She helped create "DigCCurr I and II" which developed the curriculum for archival graduate students.[2][6] In April 2007, the DigCCurr conference brought almost 300 participants with 100 speakers from 10 countries.[7] She also directed ESOPI-21 (Educating Stewards of Public Information in the 21st Century), which helps prepare students for work in shaping public policy and preserving government records and data.[2] Tibbo collaborates with other universities and institutions, including the University of Michigan, the University of Toronto, Duke University, and the United Kingdom's Joint INformation Systems Committee and Digital Curation Center.[7][3][5]

• Society of American Archivists Fellow (August 2005) [7]
• Library of Congress Digital Pioneer (October 2001) [3]
• Alumni Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science (July 2010)
• Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indiana University-Bloomington at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (June 2018)[4]

• "Archival Reference Knowledge," The American Archivist with Wendy Duff and Elizabeth Yakel (2013)
• "The Economic Impact of Archives: Surveys of Users of Government Archives in Canada and the United States," The American Archivist with Elizabeth Yakel, Wendy Duff, Amber Crushing and Adam Kriesberg (2012)
• "Placing the Horse before the Cart: Conceptual and Technical Dimensions of Digital Curation," Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung (2012)
• "The Development, Testing, and Evaluation of the Archival Metrics Toolkits," The American Archivist with Wendy Duff, Elizabeth Yakel, Joan Cherry, Aprille McKay, Magia Krause and Rebecka Sheffield (2010)
• "Standardized tools for assessment in archives and special collections," Performance Measurement and Metrics with Elizabeth Yakel (2010)
• "The Archival Metrics Toolkit: Development and implementation," Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology with Elizabeth Yakel, Aprille McKay and Wendy Duff (2009)
• "Developing curriculum for digital libraries and digital curation education: Reflections on synergies and divergencies," ASIST with Javed Mostafa, Jeffrey Pomerantz, Jerome McDonough and Carole L. Palmer (2008)
• "The Archival Metrics Toolkit: Development and implementation," ASIST with Elizabeth Yakel, Aprille McKay, Wendy Duff and Joan M. Cherry (2008)
• "Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories: Steps Toward Success," J. Digit. Inf. with Christopher A. Lee (2007)
• "Personal Email Management on the University Digital Desktop: User Behaviors vs. Archival Best Practices," ASIST with Megan A. Winget and Kimberley Chang (2006)
• "On the nature and importance of archiving in the digital age," Advances in Computers (2003)
• "Modeling the information-seeking behavior of social scientists: Ellis's study revisited," JASIST with Lokman I. Meho (2003)
• "Archival perspectives on the emerging digital library," Communications of the ACM (2001)
• "Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library: An Emerging Design," CoLIS with Diane H. Sonnenwald, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Bert J. Dempsey, Charles R. Viles and J. S. Smith (1999)
• "Freestyle vs. Boolean: A Comparison of Partial and Exact Match Retrieval Systems," Information Processing & Management with Lee Anne H. Paris (1998)
• "Review - The Art of Abstracting," Information Processing & Management (1997)
• "A Text Filter for the Automatic Identification of Empirical Articles," JASIS with Stephanie W. Haas and Jeremy Sugarman (1996)
• "Indexing for the Humanities," JASIS (1994)