The DHO is pleased to announce the appointment of Don Gourley as Information Technology Manager. Don joins the Academy from the Washington Research Library Consortium, a resource-sharing federation of universities in the Washington, D.C. area, where he is the Director of Information Technology. Don has managed a range of technical projects in both the public and private sectors. He has served as the lead architect for a number of Web-based library information systems, such as a personalized portal for library patrons, an intra-consortium borrowing and document delivery service, and a repository for managing and preserving digital collections.
Prior to WRLC, Don managed software projects and IT services at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Maryland, and before that worked as a software design engineer with Hewlett-Packard. Don holds degrees from the University of Virginia (BA in Mathematics) and University of Colorado (MS in Computer Science). He has published several articles in the area of digital libraries and presented on a variety of subjects including information retrieval, digital library services, and open source software. Don has also spent many years teaching computer science at the undergraduate level.
