Nick Szydlowski
Digital Scholarship Librarian at San Jose State University
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Szydlowski is a Digital Scholarship Librarian with nine years of professional experience building and managing digital repositories, scholarly communication services, and preservation programs across academic and public libraries. He blends hands-on web development and coding with metadata design, data analysis, and staff leadership to deliver practical, user-centered digital scholarship services. At San José State University and previously at Boston College Law School, he has overseen institutional repository platforms and created workflows that connect analog collections with digital access and long-term preservation. Nick champions continuous, ambitious staff development and cultivates collaborative teams that expand technical capacity within libraries. Equally comfortable debugging code, answering reference questions, or designing reporting systems, he thrives where the interpersonal and the technical intersect. Outside work he is a committed father and musician, bringing creativity and empathy to his approach to librarianship.
9 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Roxbury Latin SchoolBachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor's degree, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at Yale UniversityMaster's degree, Library and Information Science, Master's degree, Library and Information Science at Simmons University
Github Skills (7)
facebook-feed8
displays7
datatables5
feed5
facebook4
kubernetes2
federated2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BCLawLibrary/homepage
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Customization files from the Law Library's homepage, LibGuides page, and LibCal page.
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
libcallibguideslawcustomization
BCLawLibrary/facebook
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
displaysfacebook-feedfeedfacebook
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