Chad Hutchens
Chair, Digital & Distinctive Collections
Biography:
Chad Hutchens is the current Chair of Digital Collections. He holds a BA and MA in
Classics from CU Boulder and an MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin. He can
answer questions about data management, scholarly communication, copyright, UW repositories
(including UW Digital Collections), and 2D and 3D scanning. He is particularly interested
in 3D imaging for preservation, as well as Digital Scholarship and computational methods
in the Humanities. In his free time, he enjoys fishing and hiking with his two dogs,
working on his classic car, and following college football, especially the Texas Longhorns.
Awards & Recognitions:
Selected Publications & Presentations:
Koenig, C. W., Castañeda, A. M., Arksey, M., & Hutchens, C. E. (2021). Digital Reconstruction and Preliminary Rock Art Inventory of the Greybull South Site,
Wyoming. In American Indian Rock Art Volume 47 (No. 47). Sunbelt Publications.
Hutchens, C. E., & Koenig, C. (2021). Getting Started with 3D Digitization. In DLF Teach Toolkit 2.0: Immersive Technologies. Digital Library Federation.
Hutchens, Chad & Kerr, Tyler. “3D Scanning and Augmented Reality as a method to Deliver and Promote Digital Collections
in Libraries and Museums.” Coalition for Networked Information Spring Meeting, April 9, 2019.
Hutchens, Chad. “Collaborating to Digitize Paleontological Collections at the University of Wyoming.” Coalition for Networked Information Spring Meeting. April 3, 2017.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie
Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year
university among the top research universities in the United States.
The University of Wyoming Libraries has been a Federal Depository Library since 1907. The collection comprises approximately 1.5 million print and microfiche
items in Coe Library and Library Annex, as well as maps, aerial and infrared photographs,
and geological publications housed in the Brinkerhoff Geology Library. The Federal
Document Library Program is changing from physical to digital distribution of government
information; UW Libraries provides access to online publications available from the
Federal Depository Library Program through the library catalog.