Kevin Reiss
Discovery And Access Services Manager at Princeton University
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Reiss is a library technology leader with 15 years of experience managing discovery, access, and web services for major academic libraries, currently leading a distributed team at Princeton University. He combines deep systems management expertise in ILS/LSP platforms with hands-on full-stack development in Ruby on Rails and PHP/Drupal to deliver integrated catalog, fulfillment, and staff-facing applications. Kevin has a track record of building and supporting complex integrations (Alma, resource sharing, remote storage) while supervising developers and data analysts to improve user access to print and electronic collections. An active contributor to Zotero translators, he has practical experience transforming bibliographic and MARC data for discovery systems, reflecting a rare blend of library domain knowledge and code-level data engineering. Trained with an MS in Library and Information Science, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to make library systems both reliable and user-friendly.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Library and Information Science, M.S., Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
data-extraction9
data-transformation8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zotero/translators
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Zotero Translators
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Zotero translators, specifically focusing on enhancing the MARC.js translator. Their work involved adding functionality to extract URLs for electronic resources, cleaning up spacing inconsistencies, and updating the date stamp within the translator file. Additionally, the user committed an initial translator for a Princeton Library Primo installation, creating a new file and implementing the base structure for importing data. These contributions suggest a focus on data extraction and transformation within the Zotero environment.
translatorstranslationzotero
pulibrary/researchdata
Jun 2020 - Dec 2024
Drupal 10 site for Princeton Research Data Service
Contributions:31 reviews, 72 PRs, 54 pushes in 4 years 7 months
princetonresearch-datadrupaldata-servicedrupal-9
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