Jaquelina E. Álvarez, OHL Co-Director
Jaquelina E. Álvarez is the Oral History Lab (OHL) Co-Director and the Graduate Research and Innovation Center (GRIC) Coordinator at the UPRM University Library. She leads several campus digital strategy initiatives and partnerships, including Scholar@UPRM, the institutional repository. Currently, she is Co-PI of “Listening to Puerto Rico: The Promise of Oral History On-Campus and Beyond,” a $500,000 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH Award# ZDH-284106-22) and “Speaking into the Silences: Building Community Archives across the Puerto Rican Archipelago” project supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She organizes and teaches workshops and training sessions on digital literacy, scholarly communication, intellectual property, and data management. She has worked to incorporate information literacy into the UPRM’s STEM curriculum by participating in programs sponsored by the NSF, HHMI, NEH, and DoEd. Previously, she was the PI of an NEH Chairman’s Emergency Grant (NEH Award PB-260678- 18), a co-PI of “Building Capacity for Collection Care and Disaster Preparedness” project (NEH Award PG-263517-19), and a five-year (2014-2021), $2.6 million grant awarded by the DoEd under the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. She holds an M.A. (1997) and Specialist Certificate (1999) in Library and Information Studies from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.