Erica Hayes
Managing Librarian For Digital Scholarship at Villanova University
Villanova, Corsica, United States
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Top SchoolErica Hayes is a digital scholarship leader with eight years of experience bridging librarianship, user experience, and digital preservation, currently serving as Managing Librarian for Digital Scholarship at Villanova University. Her background spans hands-on roles in metadata, TEI encoding, web development, and GIS mapping, informed by dual master’s degrees in Library Science and Information Science and an MFA in Creative Writing. Erica led strategic initiatives around evolving library spaces and services during an NCSU Libraries fellowship, combining copyright expertise with UX-driven program design. She has a track record of building institutional repositories and digital projects from the ground up, translating technical workflows into accessible services for researchers and students. Based in Villanova with a creative-writing sensibility, she brings both technical rigor and narrative thinking to digital scholarship initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Creative Writing-Poetry, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Creative Writing-Poetry at California State University, Long BeachMaster of Information Science, Master of Information Science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature at Chapman University
Github Skills (25)
digital-humanities10
python10
network-analysis10
linked-open-data10
open-source10
website-hosting10
data-management10
api10
touchscreen9
jquery8
geojson8
displays8
leaflet8
edtech7
location7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FalveyDigitalScholarship/honoringthefallen
Sep 2019 - Apr 2024
This is the repository for the mapping project: Honoring the Fallen: An Interactive Memorial Map. This map is part of The Voices of Villanova Veterans oral history project, in collaboration with the Office of Veterans and Military Service Members and Falvey Memorial Library's Digital Scholarship Program and the Department of Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement Department. This map displays the names of veterans with a connection Villanova University, along with their branch of service, year and location of death. This mapping project was built with Flâneur, a Jekyll theme for maps and texts using Leaflet developed by Niquii O'Niell and Dawn Childress, and is based on the earlier Boulevardier framework. The content for the map was curated by Michael Brown, Laura Bang, Dave Uspal, Micahel Foight, and Erica Hayes at Villanova University.
Contributions:4 PRs, 143 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
bangdisplayscollaborationconnectionscholarship
ericayhayes/seguy
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
E.A. Seguy Intro to Wax sample exhibit for NCSULA Cool Tools Presentation
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
waxpresentation-toolspresentationexhibit
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