Annette Bailey

Digital Assets Librarian

Annette Bailey received her MLIS in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an Assistant Professor at the University Libraries at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). In her position as Virginia Tech’s Digital Assets Librarian, she provides leadership and guidance for all aspects of electronic resource management. Ms. Bailey serves on the Program Planning Committee for the ER&L Conference and the Editorial Board for the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. She co-developed the widely used open source LibX plug-in, for which she received the 2007 LITA Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award. Ms. Bailey won a National Leadership Grant in 2006 for LibX and in 2008 for LibX 2.0. She has given several invited presentations on LibX at conferences and heads the LibX team.