Lauren Work is the Digital Preservation Librarian at the University of Virginia, where she is responsible for the implementation of preservation strategy and systems for university digital resources. She helps to create workflows and strategies for the sustainable ingest, preservation and access to born-digital content at Virginia, in collaboration within communities such as the Academic Preservation Trust, Archivematica, and BitCurator. She recently served as the project lead for the UVA’s “Fostering a Community of Practice” grant project with the Software Preservation Network. She earned her MLIS from the University of Washington.