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Stuart's role in the library
I am the Manager of Digital Production and Web Application Development at the Stanford University Libraries. As Manager of Digital Production I help steer the library's digitization program and directly supervise the staff who operate our six digital imaging labs. As Manager of Web Application Development I oversee the technical development of the library's public facing main website (http://library.stanford.edu), as well as web delivery of digitized library materials.
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Selected publications
Gumport, P. J., & Snydman, S. K. (2006). Higher education: Evolving forms and emerging markets. In W. W. Powell, & R. Steinberg (Eds.), The nonprofit sector : A research handbook (2nd ed., pp. 462-484). New Haven: Yale University Press.Snydman, S. K. (2002).
Snydman, S. K. (2002). Technology. In J. J. F. Forest, & K. Kinser (Eds.), Higher education in the United States : An encyclopedia (pp. 652-659). Santa Barbara, Calif.: Abc-Clio.
Gumport, P. J., & Snydman, S. K. (2002). The formal organization of knowledge: An analysis of academic structure.Journal of Higher Education, 73(3), 375-408.
More about Stuart
I began work in the field of digital libraries in 1999, managing a five-year effort to digitize and preserve the publications and documents of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade, a 2 million page archive held at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (http://gatt.stanford.edu).
In 2002 I helped deploy the first digitization lab in the world to use a fully automated robotic page-turning scanner for the mass digitization of books.
In 2005 I became the technical project manager of the Parker Library on the Web, an effort to digitize and publish online digital reproductions of over 500 rare Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. I have since managed several large-scale projects to preserve and provide online access to unique library collections.
