Thomas Dodson
Web & Discovery Librarian, Associate Professor
Ashland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Dodson is a Web & Discovery Librarian and associate professor with 12 years of experience blending front-end web development, interaction and visual design, and library discovery systems to improve access to information. He leads technical modernization at Hannon Library—implementing Git/GitHub workflows, managing Springshare tools, and migrating and customizing Primo VE—while teaching a course on algorithmic justice that bridges technology and ethics. With a background in MFA fiction and MLIS, he uniquely pairs humanities-centered research and editorial experience with practical UX and Drupal/WordPress development from positions at Harvard and Boston University. Thomas has a track record of building accessible, performance-minded interfaces and developer workflows, and he often works at the intersection of academic liaison work and technical product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., English, B.A., English at Missouri State UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Fiction, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Fiction at University of IowaGrub StreetHarvard UniversityMLIS, Library and Information Science, MLIS, Library and Information Science at Kent State UniversityM.A., Comparative Studies, M.A., Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University
English, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
wordpress7
sass6
css6
solr6
highlight6
php5
rails5
ruby4
collections4
spotlight3
responsive2
javascript2
frontend2
brave1
browser1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tdodson/subway_auto
Jun 2014 - Oct 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 5 years 4 months
japanesepoetry-generatorenglishmessagesubway
tdodson/ecard-generator
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 6 months
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