Anne Gilliland Anne Gilliland is a professor of Information Studies and Moving Image Archive Studies and chair of the UCLA Department of Information Studies. She is also the director of the Center for Information as Evidence and of the MLIS Specialization in Archival Studies program.
Anne Gilliland’s research in archival informatics concentrates on points where issues relating to record-keeping, accountability, enterprise and societal memory intersect with technology within and across organizational, community and disciplinary domains. At a broader level, her work examines how this area can be instrumental in building and furthering archival research, theory, professional practice and education as well as the archival role as it is perceived and is instrumental in society.
Gilliland has been an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow of the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow (June 2002 to January 2003); an Elected Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (2000); a winner of the C.F.W. Coker Award for innovative development in archival description by the Encoded Archival Description Working Group, Society of American Archivists (September 1998) and a winner of the Margaret Cross Norton Award for best article published in Archival Issues (1994-1995).