Zoe Borovsky

Zoe Borovsky is the Librarian for Digital Research and Scholarship at UCLA. She became a librarian in 2011, after working at UCLA's Center for Digital Humanities for about 15 years. She has a Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley in Medieval Scandinavian Literature. Her work in Digital Humanities began with a text-analysis project that was related to her work on a corpus of Old Norse sagas. After receiving her Ph.D., she was an assistant professor at University of Oregon. She has a special fondness for her stint at a start-up, XML-publishing company in San Francisco, where she worked with software engineers and led a team of technical writers and trainers. When she landed a job at the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA, she was instrumental in building a community of practice around Digital Humanities, and through her connections and efforts, she helped build the Digital Humanities program from individual faculty projects into an established program: a minor and a graduate certificate.

Zoe has been a visionary partner and leader to UCLA students, faculty and librarians working in the digital humanities. She managed the opening of the Research Commons in the Charles E. Young Library, and then, in 2015, she launched the Digital Research Start-Up Partnerships Program (DResSUP) as well as the Research Partnerships Functional Team as part of the re-organization of User Engagement within the UCLA Library. She co-founded the ADHO Libraries and Digital Humanities Special Interest Group and now serves as liaison of all ADHO SIGs with ADHOs Steering Group.