Eric Shows
Assistant Director, Digital Collections at The New York Public Library
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEric Shows is an Assistant Director of Digital Collections at The New York Public Library with nine years of leadership in digitization, metadata, and digital access platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in high-throughput imaging and preservation with practical automation skills in Python and SQL to streamline complex workflows and large-scale digitization projects. Known for building strong institutional relationships, he oversees copyright and information policy teams while maintaining user-focused access to cultural heritage assets. His background as a practicing artist and extensive early technical work—managing a 40,000-photo reformatting project and calibrating imaging hardware—gives him a rare blend of aesthetic sensitivity and technical rigor.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison May 2009Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting at University of North Texas May 2005
Github Skills (3)
parse6
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NYPL/cce-ocr-files
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:16 commits in 1 day
NYPL/digitization-requests
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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