Ricky Erway

Ricky Erway is a program officer in the OCLC Programs and Research, where she focuses on digital library activities.  Before RLG and OCLC merged in July of 2006, she was Manager of Digital Resources at RLG, responsible for CAMIO (the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) and RLG Cultural Materials (digitized special collections from a variety of libraries, archives, and museums) and was a key player in the development of ArchiveGrid (a service that aggregates bibliographic records and finding aids describing archival and special collections).   Before joining RLG, Ricky worked at the Library of Congress for nine years, the last five as associate coordinator of the American Memory program, aimed at significantly increasing public access to the special collections of the Library of Congress.  She has an MLS from the University of Wisconsin, USA.