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Library Staff—Joseph Tan


Title: Manager, Digital Services & Technology Planning
Email: joseph.tan@utsouthwestern.edu
Phone: 214-648-9510
Joseph Tan
 

Library Responsibilities:

  • Manages the Digital Services and Technology Planning department and its staff of 6 FTEs
  • Lead the selection, development, design, implementation, and prioritization of digital infrastructure initiatives
  • Lead and coordinate strategic planning for the Library's web site content, organization, and assessment
  • Monitor environment for evolving trends, best practices, standards, and new opportunities to improve access to and discovery of the Library's digital collection and service
  • Design, develop, maintain, and manage Library's external and internal Web sites/applications and databases
  • Chair the Library's Web Content Team
  • Web publishing and electronic theses and dissertations consultant.
  • Teach Web publishing related classes

Contact me with questions or instruction about:

  • Library internal and external web sites and applications
  • Off-campus access to electronic resources
  • Web publishing at UT Southwestern
  • Electronic theses or dissertations at UT Southwestern (Medical School)

Liaison Areas:

  • Internal Medicine - Epidemiology
  • Quantitative Biology (Grishin Lab)

Areas of Interest:

  • Management and Leadership
  • Digital Libraries
  • Web Development
  • User Interface Design/Engineering
  • Database Design/Development
  • Promotion and marketing of library products and services

Education:

  • M.S., University of North Texas, Computer Education and Cognitive Systems, 1999
    • Major: Internet Services
    • Minor: Business Computer Information Systems
  • M.M., University of North Texas, Music, 1998
  • B.M. (Cum Laude), University of North Texas, Music, 1997
    Honors: Pi Kappa Lambda

Regular Classes:

  • Web Publishing 101
  • Advanced Web Publishing

Selected Publications:

Awards and Grants:

SCC Research Committee Awards (2003), 3rd Place, Posters, South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association, "To Banner or not to Banner: User Research of a Web Marketing Tool", poster session with Sharon Giles, Helen Mayo, Herldine Radley, and Therona Ramos.

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