Ramona Holmes currently serves as the Dept. Head for Digital Creation at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. From 2001-2013 she served as the Coordinator for Metadata Services, evolving that department from a traditional cataloging unit into a division that provides services and education to faculty and staff regarding the university’s institutional repository. As of July 2013, Ms. Holmes provides leadership for Digital Creation, a unit that leads digitization and access efforts for UTA Libraries unique materials. Additionally, this unit focuses on digital humanities, the interchange of the humanities and computing, specifically the visualization of data sets.
Ms. Holmes received her M.S. from the University of North Texas, School of Library and Information Science in 1999 after earning a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1997. She has 28 years of library experience at both the paraprofessional and professional level.