Thomas Padilla

Thomas Padilla has held a range of leadership and research positions at the Internet Archive, Center for Research Libraries, OCLC Research, and the Library of Congress. Thomas has deep experience developing, presenting, and teaching on computational use of collections as data, responsible AI, digital strategy, and data curation. Thomas is Advisory Board Member, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media; Board Member, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program; National Advisory Board Member, Opioid Industry Documents Archive; and Advisory Board Member, The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections. Thomas holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MA in History from San Francisco State University.

Courses

• INFO/LIS 671: Introduction to Digital Curation and Preservation

Select Publications

• Padilla, Thomas, Hannah Scates Kettler, and Yasmeen Shorish. “Collections as Data: Part to Whole Final Report.” Zenodo, November 20, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10161976.

• Samberg, Rachael, Timothy Vollmer, and Thomas Padilla. “Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining – Cross-Border (‘LLTDM-X’): White Paper,” October 2, 2023. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k91r1s1.
• Padilla, Thomas. “Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries.” https://doi.org/10.25333/XK7Z-9G97.

Awards and Honors

• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Convocation Speaker, 2020 
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, iSchool ISAA Leadership Award, 2020
• Mover and Shaker 2020, Digital Developers, Library Journal, 2020