Leah Prescott
Senior Administrator Of Library Resources (Library Director)
Stonington, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Prescott is a seasoned librarian and archivist with 12+ years leading digital initiatives, collections, and preservation strategies across museums, academic law libraries, and consortia. Currently Senior Administrator of Library Resources at Mystic Seaport Museum, she has directed production digitization programs, managed preservation repositories, and overseen special collections and conservation labs at institutions including Harvard Law School and Georgetown Law. Leah combines hands-on systems administration and database migration skills with strategic project management, vendor negotiation, and cross-institutional coordination developed at the Getty and WRLC. She is equally comfortable shaping data standards and controlled vocabularies as she is presenting programs and building teams, and she brings a long-standing commitment to integrating libraries, museums, and archives through sustainable digital workflows. An early adopter of linking contextual timelines and workflow databases, she often blends technical solutions with archival practice to make complex cultural heritage more discoverable and durable.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MLS Library and Information Science, MLS Library and Information Science at Syracuse UniversityBA American History, BA American History at University of ConnecticutProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
mets/external-extender-schemas
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
leahprescott/fiche
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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