NDSA:Jim Corridan

Jim Corridan, Indiana Commission on Public Records and Council of State Archivists

Biography:
Jim Corridan was appointed State Archivist and Director of the Indiana Commission on Public Records in 2005. Concurrently, from 2006 through 2012, he served as Deputy Director of the Indiana State Library for Outreach and Statewide Services. In these capacities he established Indiana’s electronic records program with the archives, Indiana Memory at the State Library, serves as the sponsor of Indiana’s National Digital Newspaper Project and has coordinated statewide efforts to provide workshops on digital preservation and electronic records.

In 2009 Jim was elected to the Board of Directors of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA). He helped establish and chaired CoSA’s State Electronic Records Initiative (SERI) in 2011 and currently serves as President of CoSA. SERI is focused on governance, best practices, awareness and education to strengthen all the state and territorial archives in the United States.

Working with the staff from the Library of Congress, Jim and the Indiana State Archives hosted the first regional Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) project, the Midwest train-the-trainer program in partnership with the Library of Congress in August of 2012 and has been an advocate for digital preservation. He was also a founder and serves as a board member of the International Governance Committee of Evergreen, the open source integrated library system.

Interest in serving on the Coordinating Committee:
The work of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance is important in establishing a national dialogue for digital preservation and is critical in building awareness about the preservation of digital resources. I would like to bring an additional perspective to the Coordinating Committee and hope that my past experience would benefit NDSA.

I hope that my participation on the coordinating committee would aid in finding new opportunities to work across multiple fields and repositories.

Communities Represented:
State Government