#  Stuart Snydman 

Associate University Librarian and Managing Director, Library Technology

 

 

 



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**Stuart Snydman** has served as Associate University Librarian and Managing Director for Harvard's Library Technology Services (LTS) since July of 2019, joining Harvard after serving the Stanford University Libraries for over twenty years. Stuart leads LTS in planning and developing the library technology portfolio and maintaining reliable enterprise library applications to facilitate search, discovery, and access to knowledge. LTS also designs solutions to enable creation of world-class scholarly collections through acquisition, collaboration, and digital repository services.

Stuart earned a BA in History from the University of Virginia and an MS in Education from Stanford University. He got started 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 two-million-page archive held at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He subsequently managed several large-scale projects to preserve and provide online access to unique library collections. He served as the Associate Director for Digital Strategies at the Stanford Libraries between 2014-2019 overseeing the digitization program and the development of the libraries' online services.

Over the course of his career in library technology, Stuart has focused on not only building state-of-the-art, open-source software to advance Stanford and Harvard's digital library infrastructures, but also on cultivating a community of cultural heritage institutions to collaboratively solve complex technical problems that we have in common. Stuart helped found the International Image Interoperability Framework, which brings together the world’s great image repositories to develop and implement a common technical framework for sharing content on the web. He subsequently led the development of several widely adopted, open-source tools that facilitate discovery of and access to digital information resources.