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Russell Palmer

Assistant Director, GALILEO Support Services
GALILEO

Russell Palmer is the Assistant Director for Support Services at GALILEO, Georgia’s Virtual Library, and has worked within the library community for over 20 years. At GALILEO, Russell supervises support services staff, processes and workflows, maintains the GALILEO training program, and manages the review and implementation of new technology products and services.

Russell joined GALILEO in 2016 after ten years at LYRASIS, the largest U.S. library and cultural heritage network, where he served as training manager, implementation project manager for Digital Technology Services, and membership program manager. Russell began his professional career at Mercer University as an Interlibrary loan and reference librarian, and would later lead the Mercer information literacy instruction team.

A native Georgian, Russell graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature, and received his master’s degree in library science from the Florida State University.

Since arriving at GALILEO, Russell has led efforts to implement InCommon SSL services, improve the usability of the GALILEO web portal, and begin the OpenAthens implementation effort.

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