Summary
Clayton Hayes is a Digital Initiatives Librarian with nine years of experience bridging academic libraries, data services, and scholarly publishing to support science and social science researchers. He has led information literacy instruction and digital publishing projects across institutions from Wayne State to Kenyon College, now serving Charleston School of Law. Trained in both mathematics (BS, MA) and library science (MLIS), he combines quantitative rigor with practical expertise in repository workflows, analytics, and tools like Fedora Commons and ABBYY. Clayton’s liaison work has spanned computing, economics, math, and political science, giving him a knack for translating domain needs into sustainable data and publishing services. He’s particularly skilled at turning backlogs and messy digitization projects into discoverable, well-described collections. Based in Charleston, SC, he brings a researcher-focused mindset and cross-disciplinary fluency to institutional digital scholarship.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Academic Libraries, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Academic Libraries at Wayne State University