Kopana L. Terry is a preservationist, photographer, musician, producer, oral historian and archivist/librarian. At the University of Kentucky Libraries, she has focused on collection development, newspapers, oral history, traditional and digital preservation, and media reformatting for nearly twenty-five years. Since 2013, she has been the Oral History Archivist for Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History where she manages the care and feeding of the archive, the catalogue and content management system SPOKEdb, digital preservation, and Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) indexing supervision. She is also the Curator of Newspapers for the Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program at the Special Collections Research Center.  From 2007 to 2013, she managed the NEH-funded National Digital Newspaper Program for Kentucky as part of the national Chronicling America newspaper database, created meta|morphosis: film-to-digital lecture series for global newspaper and microfilm digitization training, and in 2023, as principal investigator, she shepherded UK Libraries to its fifth NEH NDNP award. Her more recent research involves Historic Preservation and the effects of increasingly extreme natural disasters on vulnerable built environments and populations within the Appalachian Region. Outside the academy, she has worked for decades as an artist in many mediums, such as photography, music and music production, video production, writing and more. Some of these efforts can be accessed through kopana.net

• Historic Preservation
• Carbon-Neutral Building Systems & Architecture
• Alternative Photographic Processes
• Documentary Photography
• Appalachian Environment
• Appalachian Culture
• Appalachian Identity
• Climate Change
• Historic Newspapers
• Content Management Systems
• Digital Preservation
• Digital Archival Systems
• Oral History