Leah Root

Publishing/Web Services Developer

Develop, program, and maintain Milne Library internal web applications, Digital Publishing, Digital Collections, and Faculty-Student collaborative digital projects
Technical Support to Library Staff, Faculty, and Library Patrons
Web Team Lead: Redesigned Milne Library Web pages within Drupal constraints; work with Research Instruction Librarians to streamline content and test usability (UX); ensure WCAG3 Accessibility compliance
Databases: T-SQL & mySQL, administration and design, ARGOS query generation, ARGOS report & datablock programming
Servers: Windows IIS, Windows Apache, Linux RedHat, Ubuntu, and Debian Apache administration
Platforms/Languages: WordPress, Pressbooks, Drupal, Omeka, LibCal, LibApps, C# .NET, PHP, bash, perl,WP-CLI, PRINCE XML, jQuery, vue.js, JSON, XSLT

Open SUNY Textbooks / SUNY OER Services - Developed, programmed, and maintain: OpenSUNY Textbooks public-facing platform backend and front end, including custom download statistics; install and maintain Pressbooks and PRINCE XML publishing platforms; ensure content discoverability, ease of sharing books and content with other Open Textbook and OER web resources; worldwide access to books and content from desktops, laptops, mobile devices
Milne Library News & Events WordPress API feed - displayed on websites and video displays throughout campus
Information Delivery Services (IDS) and ILLiad InterLibrary Loan Services
Consultation, Instruction, Room Requests, Course Reserves, Community Borrower Book Renewals
Library Hours API Database, interface, and webservice to display hours and exceptions on websites and video displays throughout campus
DataPortal / Student Success Project - Built and maintain single-sign on Web Portal and Database; SQL queries, single sign-on secure forms for recording and statistical analysis of Library questions, requests, consultations, Milne Library Staff Directory, instruction sessions, journal collection statistics, Headcounts, Gatecounts
Digital Thoreau
NaRMo - National Book Review Month
OpenValley
The Proceedings of Great Day (Scholarly Journal)
Minerva (Milne Library Publications)

"Library as Publisher: The Story of Open SUNY Textbooks" - Library Technology Conference, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. March 14, 2018 View or Download Slides
"OpenSUNY Textbooks: How WordPress saved our Open Educational Services Program" - WPCampus: Where WordPress Meets Higher Education, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY. July 15, 2017
Watch Video View or Download Slides
Google Analytics Primer: How to interpret Google Analytics for different types of websites - COMN 277 : Online Journalism, Ginni Jurkowski. November 2016
"Open SUNY Textbooks Summit: Takeaways, Adaption, Adoption, and the Future" (co-presented with Allison Brown) Milne Library Professional Development Workshop, Milne Library. June 2015
"Open SUNY Textbooks and Textbook Publishing Services" (co-presented with Allison Brown) BC Campus Open Textbook Summit, Simon Fraser University Harbor Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia. May 2015
"Keep your PC or Mac Clean with CCleaner" Milne Library Professional Development Workshop, Milne Library. June 2014
"Library Hours: Let's Build a Simple Widget" ALA-LITA Lightning Talk, Library and Information Technology Association Forum, Louisville, KY. November 2013