Leah Root

Web Services Developer

Areas of Responsibility:

• Provide programming and technical support for websites, digital projects, "home-grown" applications, and third-party vendor applications. Research best methods and integrate them with library services and applications to increase functionality and usability.
• Technical Support to Library Staff, Faculty, and Library Patrons
• Library Accessibility Guidelines Team (LAG) Lead
• Web Team Lead: Maintain Milne Library Web pages; work with Research Instruction Librarians and CIT to streamline content and test usability (UX); ensure WCAG Accessibility compliance
• Databases: T-SQL & mySQL, administration and design,  ARGOS query generation, report, and datablock programming
• Servers: Linux RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian; Windows IIS, Windows Apache
• Platforms: WordPress, Pressbooks, Drupal, Omeka, LibCal, LibApps, LibGuides,.NET, WP-CLI, PRINCE
• Languages: C#, PHP, ASPx .NET, bash, perl, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, vue.js, JSON, Python

Projects and Application:

• Library News & Events  WordPress API feed - displayed on websites and video displays throughout campus
• Information Delivery Services (IDS)/ILLiad InterLibraryLoan
• LibGuides and LibApps integrations
• Consultation,  Instruction, Purchase Requests, Course Reserves, Community Borrower Book Renewals, Milne Library Staff Directory
• OpenValley, Digital Thoreau , NaRMO,  Milne Open Textbooks, Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery
• Geneseo Authors' Celebration

SERVICE:

• Library Accessibility Guidelines Team (Chair) - 2020 to present
• SUNY Geneseo EIT Accessibility Team - 2020 to present
• SUNY Geneseo IT Vulnerability Group - 2020 to present 
• SUNY Geneseo EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Coordinator - 2019 to 2021
• IDEA Committee (Inclusion/Diversity/Equity Anti-Racism) - 2020 to 2022
• MAVERIC (Mission And Vision Exploration / Research / Investigation Committee) - 2020 to present
• StoryTime Community Outreach Event  Advisor/Promoter - 2019 - present
• SUNY Geneseo Student Conduct and Appellate Boards - 2015 to present
• Milne Library Good Spirits Committee - 2019 to present
• Milne Library Social Media Committee - 2018 to present
• SUNYLA Delegate, 2017-2019
• Chair, Ad Hoc Bylaws Subcommittee for Librarians & Professional Staff Committee, 2018-2019
• Open SUNY Textbooks Advisory Council - 2016
• LibraryJuice Academy - Moodle LMS consulting - 2014

Presentations:

• Access for All: Web Accessibility - Library Technology Conference, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.  March 20, 2019
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• Access For All: Responsive and Accessible ILLiAD - IDS Project Conference, Utica College, Utica, NY. July 26, 2018
• "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
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• Google Analytics Primer: How to interpret Google Analytics for different types of websites  - COMN 277 : Online Journalism,   Ginni Jurkowski. November 2016
• "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

Certifications/Education

• Microsoft MTA Database Fundamentals, February 2020
• HarvardX PH125.1x: Data Science: R, December 2018
• Protecting Human Research Participants, Certified, National Institutes of Health, April 2018
• MFA Imaging Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1996