Anna Striker Staff Profile
Program / Service
Shared Collections
Job Title
Shared Print Operations and Collections Analyst
Pronouns
she/herResponsibilities
Anna manages the operations of the UC Libraries Shared Print initiatives and the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST), including conducting group collections analysis to identify candidate titles for long-term print retention and preservation, serving as product owner of systems development projects to improve and enhance the AGUA collections analysis and decision support system, coordinating the work of member libraries retaining materials for UCL and WEST initiatives and reporting on progress and achievements, and collaborating with external partners and peer shared print programs to achieve community goals.
Education
MLIS, San Jose State University
BA, University of Virginia
Background
Prior to joining CDL, Anna served as the Stacks Services Supervisor at Georgetown University, where she oversaw the management of physical collections housed in campus libraries. Before getting into libraries, she worked at the small non-profit Books for America overseeing donations of books to schools, literacy programs, prisons, and other social services organizations.
Committees / Affiliations
Rosemont Shared Print Alliance – Operations Committee
Partnership for Shared Book Collections – Operations Committee, Communications & Advocacy Working Group
Rosemont/Partnership Merger Implementation Task Force
Papers and Presentations
- Striker, A., Krebeck, A., Waltz, M., & White, L. (2022). Weeding Communication in the Collections Lifecycle. Retrieved from https://toolkit.sharedprint.org/communications (see “How to talk about Weeding”)
- Jemison, D., Liu, L., Striker, A., Wohlers, A., Jiang, J., & Dobry, J. (2021). Enhancing Print Journal Analysis for Shared Print Collections. The Code4Lib Journal, 51. Retrieved from https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15649
- Pekala, S. and Striker, A. (2019) An Inventory Tool That Works: Using Alma APIs to Go Beyond Alma’s Built-in Inventory
Functions. In: ELUNA 2019 Annual Meeting, April 29-May 3, 2019, Atlanta, GA. Retrieved from
https://documents.el-una.org/id/eprint/1919/