Bill Landis
Bill Landis is Associate Director for Public Services in Manuscripts & Archives, a department of the Yale University Library. His professional interests and experiences are in archives and digital libraries, especially relating to metadata and descriptive standards, access issues, and outreach and teaching with special collections. He is an active member and Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, for many years taught an introductory workshop on Describing Archives: A Content Standard for that organization, and recently completed a term as an elected member of its governing council. He recently co-chaired a joint task force (with the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries) responsible for creating the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, and served for two years as the inaugural editor of the SAA’s ePublication Case Studies on Teaching With Primary Sources.