Bonnie Russell

bonnie@msu.edu
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Associate Director, Mesh Research; Product Manager, Knowledge Commons

Research and Scholarship

Biography

Bonnie Russell (MLIS, Wayne State University) is the Product Manager for Knowledge Commons, Associate Director for Mesh Research, and Digital Strategist for HuMetricsHSS. Core faculty, DH@MSU. She has extensive experience in product management, technical project management, UX design, QA testing, technical documentation and training, and metadata management.

Ms. Russell has been active working with digital humanities scholars since 2012, helping scholars shape projects and identify technology needs and is a core faculty member in Digital Humanities at MSU (DH@MSU).

Works

Books

The HuMetricsHSS Team. “Enacting Values: Libraries as Catalysts for Change.” in Making Values-Based Decisions, edited by Amanda Koziura, Amy Tureen. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), August 2025. [ISBN: 9798892555937]

Articles

Burton, Kath, Cocks, Catherine, and Russell, Bonnie. ‘Recognizing and Harnessing the Transformational Power of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for Publicly-engaged Scholars’. Information Services & Use. 6 Nov. 2023 : 1 – 6.

Open Educational Resource

Publishing Values-based Scholarly Communication by Kath Burton, Catherine Cocks, and Bonnie Russell

White Paper

Agate, N., Long, C. P., Russell, B., Kennison, R., Weber, P., Sacchi, S., Rhody, J., & Thornton Dill, B. (2022). Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy. HuMetricsHSS. https://doi.org/10.17613/06sf-ad45. [online version]

Reports

Barboza, C., Bayeck, R., Drayer, A., Frank, J., Galson, G., Hricko, M., Hu, R., Russell, B., Tang, L., & Guerra, W. (2023). Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines: A Guide by the Digital Accessibility Working Group.

College of Arts & Letters News