Nathan Hall
Associate Dean For Distinctive Collections And Digital Strategies
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Hall is an experienced librarian, digital preservationist, and academic leader with nine years in senior roles building and managing digital scholarship, repositories, and preservation programs. As Associate Dean at Penn State and formerly Director of Digital Libraries at Virginia Tech, he has led multidisciplinary teams of librarians, engineers, and archivists to deploy scalable preservation infrastructure, institutional repositories, and web-archiving programs. His background combines rigorous research (PhD in Information Science) with hands-on operational accomplishments—launching dark archives, growing VTechWorks to tens of thousands of items, and establishing metrics-driven service models. Nathan’s work sits at the intersection of scholarly communication, information policy, and digital humanities, and he brings grant-writing and project management experience that translates strategy into reproducible services. An unusual cross-disciplinary thread runs through his profile: formal training in digital image management and a GitHub interest in computational psychiatry and developmental neuroscience, indicating a strong appetite for data-driven scholarship beyond traditional librarianship.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English and Music, BA, English and Music at St. Lawrence UniversityPh.D., Information Science, Ph.D., Information Science at University of North TexasMontpelier High School
French, Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
eye-tracking9
r-package8
rstudio7
development-environment7
graph6
ide6
ggplot6
keyboard-shortcuts6
glmmtmb6
rest6
documentation6
r6
roxygen6
emmeans6
package6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UNCDEPENdLab/experiment.pipeline
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
R package for reading and integrating behavior, eye-tracking, and physiological data.
Contributions:112 commits, 1 PR, 127 pushes in 2 years 3 months
r-packagerstatsphysiological-datatrackingeye
UNCDEPENdLab/bpd_rest
Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
bpdrestgraphanalyses
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