Elisa Lanzi
Director, Imaging Center
As director of the Imaging Center, Elisa Lanzi is involved in building digital collections and
tools for teaching and learning. A visual arts information specialist, Lanzi's particular areas
of interest include cultural heritage metadata, digital imaging, and teaching with technology,
on all of which she publishes and lectures. Lanzi is chair of the Cataloging Cultural Objects:
A Guide to Describing Works and their Images (CCO) project which includes an American Library Association
print publication and an interactive Web site. Her most recent publication is an article on the "Work
of Art" for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Lanzi is the chair of
the executive board of the Visual Resources Foundation and is a past president of the Visual Resources
Association. Lanzi received a B.A. in English/Art History from SUNY Brockport, New York and an
M.S.L.S. from the University of Albany.
