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Archives & Museum Informatics
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Cecilia Lizama Salvatore

Assistant Professor
Emporia State University
School of Library and Information Management
1200 Commercial Street
Emporia Kansas
66801 USA
Email: salvatoc@emporia.edu
http://slim.emporia.edu/faculty/bio/sal.htm

Cecilia Lizama Salvatore was born and reared on the Pacific island of Saipan. She was educated in library and information science at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the University of Texas at Austin. She also received some archives training at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked as a librarian in the United States and in the Pacific Islands at the Micronesian Area Research, a special and unique collection of materials concerning Guam and Micronesia, at the University of

Guam. She was Director of the Guam Public Library and the Guam Archives. She has been active in promoting services and programs that allow the indigenous community of Guam and Saipan to access and find meaning in materials relating to their indigenous heritage. She is currently an Assistant Professor in library and information science at Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. However, her interest in archives and library and information science in the Pacific remains.

Cecilia Lizama presented Cultural Heritage Informatics and Sustainability: empowering the indigenous population of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands