New Digital Services Librarian Joins Library Faculty

This article originally appeared in Information Update, the Library newsletter.

Colleen Farry joined the faculty of the Weinberg Memorial Library in July 2018. She moved from her position as Special Collections assistant to the position of Digital Services librarian. Farry originally joined The University of Scranton as a Library metadata specialist in the Helen Gallagher McHugh Special Collections in 2015. As Digital Services librarian, she appraises, publishes and preserves digital content related to the University Archives and Special Collections in the Library’s digital collections and web archives.

Farry is a graduate of Marywood University, where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior architecture and design. After working for two years at an architectural firm in Scranton, she earned dual master’s degrees at Syracuse University, concentrating on the history of 20th-century art and architecture. She also has a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to coming to the University, she held positions at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, Pace Gallery, Artsy, and the Law Library of Congress.

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