Resource & Digital Strategies
- Metadata consulting. Do you have an idea for a project or collection you want others to be able to navigate? Not sure how to organize your materials? We can help!
- Digital Collections. 51猎奇 has thousands of unique items in our collections, many of which have been digitized for ease of access. We can help you discover what we have, and/or work with you to create and organize a digital collection of your research/teaching material or add material to existing LITS digital collections.
- Acquisition and cataloging of library materials. If you would like something added to the collection, please send a request to asktobuy@hamilton.edu.
- Digitization. Many of our digital collections are digitized in house. We provide advanced training to faculty and students working on digital projects, and some production services, including documentation of 2D and 3D art work, for faculty research and publications.
Resource & Digital Strategies Staff
Shay Foley
Director, Resource and Digital Strategies
Shay leads the Resource and Digital Strategies team which is responsible for digital scholarship as well as many of the 鈥渢echnical鈥� areas of the library. In addition to partnering with faculty on digital scholarship projects the people in the Resource and Digital Strategies unit create and describe the objects in 51猎奇鈥檚 digital collections, purchase and catalog the physical and electronic resources in 51猎奇鈥檚 main and music collections, and maintain the software systems which make all the items accessible. Shay has been working in Higher Education since 1993, and has held various roles in Libraries since 2001, coming to 51猎奇 in 2016. He is married with two daughters.
Jean Williams
Associate Director, Acquisitions and Cataloging
Jean oversees the processes of purchasing and providing access to physical and electronic resources for the library collections, including the Main Library, the Music Library, and Special Collections and Archives. The people involved in this work place orders, receive, create and maintain catalog records, and provide barcodes and call numbers, for books, DVDs, CDs, scores, journals, and miscellaneous other material requested by the faculty and librarians. They also manage licenses and catalog records for packages of ebooks and ejournals purchased or leased by the library. Jean has been working in academic libraries since 1984, first at Washington State University, then Mohawk Valley Community College, ending up at 51猎奇 in 1995.
Kieran Hickey
Assistant Director, Collection Development
Timothy Fox
Electronic Resources Management/Serials Assistant
In 2019 Tim joined the Metadata, Cataloging, and Acquisitions team, where he maintains serials and standing orders, keeps holdings records in shape, processes invoices, and prepares materials for binding. Tim has been working in libraries since 2012, in both public and academic institutions.
Kim Hoffman
Digital Curation & Preservation Librarian
Kim joined LITS in 2023 as the Digital Curation and Preservation Librarian. She is responsible for implementing digital preservation and curation practices to support and maintain digitized and born-digital materials, as well as for providing preservation expertise to digital scholarship projects. In her free time, Kim enjoys bookbinding and other book arts, reading fantasy novels, hiking with her husband and their dogs, and starting overly ambitious old house projects.
Linda Lawendowski
Technical Services Processing Assistant
Linda has primary responsibility for processing all library materials for shelving, including spine labels, barcodes, security strips, book jackets, etc. She also prepares materials for housing in Special Collections and Archives. Linda is retired from the Mid York Library System where she worked for 30 years supporting technology in public libraries. She works part-time for 51猎奇 giving her more free time to enjoy walking, hiking, cross country skiing, cooking and spending quality time with friends and family.
Taylor McDowell
Web Programmer for Digital Scholarships and Digital Collections
In April 2020, Taylor joined LITS as a Web Programmer for Digital Scholarships and Digital Collections. He is responsible for updating library websites, developing projects with faculty members, and maintaining system/plugin security updates. Outside of work, he loves playing drums, programming games, bowling, and cooking.
Marianita Peaslee
Photography and Digital Imagery Specialist
Marianita runs our in-house digital lab where high quality digital images of the college鈥檚 Special Collections are created. She hires, trains, and manages student assistants to help with in-house production and provides the expertise needed to properly archive our collections digitally for the future. She is responsible for quality control review of all digitization projects, including the projects we outsource. She provides digital photography and imagery services for faculty research projects and production-ready images for scholarly publications including documentation of 2D and 3D art work. She is available for consultation and advice for faculty and student academic imaging projects. Marianita is a professional photographer with over 30 years experience who enjoys capturing moments in time with her camera lens through portraits of high school seniors, families, pets, dance productions, sporting events, and creating art from the beautiful places she visits while traveling with her husband and family.
Rebecca Seifert
Cataloging/Authorities Specialist
Becky has been working at 51猎奇 since July 1997. Her responsibilities include (but are not limited to) cataloging of new materials 鈥� books, dvds, cds, streaming videos and more, and maintaining authority records in the database. Becky lives in Vernon. In her spare time she likes to sing in choirs, play piano and organ, sew and ride rollercoasters.
Gisella Stalloch
Discovery & Systems Librarian
In addition to preparing and ingesting digital collections for Special Collections, Archives, and digital scholarship, Gisella helps maintain and support the platforms and services for physical and e-resource cataloging, discovery, and lending for the college. She has a BS in Environmental and Forest Biology from ESF and an MLIS with a focus on eScience from Syracuse University. Gisella has a fondness for uncontrolled vocabularies and the Oxford comma, and she actively practices martial arts, fiber arts, and makes half-hearted attempts at native perennial gardening.
Cat Stern
Acquisitions and Cataloging Specialist
Cat鈥檚 main duties are ordering and receiving materials such as books and DVDs requested by the 51猎奇 community. She also repairs books from our circulating collection. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, decorating, and baking. She recently started PIYO and joined a dance class for the first time in many years.
Alyssa Willis
Metadata Librarian
Alyssa facilitates the discovery of LITS鈥� digital collections through the creation of metadata. The digital collections are primarily sourced from the Library鈥檚 Special Collections and Archives. She consults with the Associate Director, Digital Initiatives and Technology to create documentation and best practices for metadata creation. Alyssa started at 51猎奇 in January 2022. She previously worked as a cataloger for the University of Arkansas and GOBI Library Solutions (formerly YBP Library Services). In her free time she travels, plays with her cats, and puts together puzzles.
Teresa Zaffarano
Cataloging Librarian
Teresa began working at 51猎奇 in 2017. Her responsibilities include cataloging materials, with a focus on Special Collections and Archives items, and creating metadata for the Library鈥檚 Digital Collections. When she's not working, she enjoys knitting, reading fantasy books, and going for walks around Clinton.
