Perry Collins

Perry Collins is a librarian and scholar based in Gainesville, FL. She is currently Chair, Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS), as well as Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian and tenured faculty at the University of Florida Libraries. Perry works closely with the Digital Library of the Caribbean, a 100-partner network devoted to preserving the cultural heritage of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diasporas, and is OER Editor for LibraryPress@UF, a collaborative digital publishing partnership between the Libraries and the University of Florida Press. Perry has been PI and co-PI on major grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Previously, Perry was Sr. Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she worked in the Office of Digital Humanities from 2024-2025 and 2011-2017. In this role, she developed initiatives to better support digital sustainability, including leadership of the NEH Public Access Policy announced in 2024. As an academic librarian, Perry has held leadership roles within the field of library publishing; she recently served on the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition and co-edits the newly launched journal Case Studies in Library Publishing. Perry holds a M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.A. in American Studies from the University of Kansas.