Biography
- Education
Muhlenberg College 2003
BA – Business Administration, Major in Small Business Management
Minor in ArtLouisiana State University 2008
Master of Fine Arts – Studio Art (MFA), Major in Studio Arts | PhotographyLouisiana State University 2010
Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), Major in Archives | Digital Libraries
- Hometown
- Acton, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
Adam has been at Arcadia since May 2014, where he started in managing Landman Library's print and electronic resources and developing Arcadia's institutional repository, ScholarWorks@Arcadia. In 2017 Adam became the Director of Landman Library. Additionally, Adam liaisons to the departments of Visual & Performing Arts and Media & Communication, teaches first-year seminars, university seminars and studio art courses, and is the coordinator for Visual Literacy and Creative Expression. Adam currently serves as the Coordinator of First-Year Seminar as well.
Adam holds a Master in Fine Arts (Studio Arts | Photography) and a Master of Library and Information Science (Digital Libraries | Archives) from Louisiana State University, and received the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Art Librarianship in 2011 from Yale University. Prior to coming to Arcadia University, Adam was the Digital Asset Manager for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York where he curated and provided access to the foundation's digital archive of digital media. Adam currently serves as the Treasurer for the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI).
Adam is also an exhibiting photographer, working primarily in black & white. See some of his work here.
Publications
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
A Digital Asset Management Philosophy / Librarian Tips For DAM Managers
DAM Guru Program, Digital Asset Management News, June 2015
The visual dictionary of photography, Präkel David , Lausanne: AVA Academia, 2010. 288 p. ill. ISBN 9782940411047. $24.95 (paperback), Art Libraries Journal, 37(3)(2012), pp. 46–47(book review).
Bruce Davidson photographs collection at the Yale Center for British Art / Research Primer: a compilation of articles and bibliographies, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, April 2012
PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS
One Size Does Not Fit All: The Need for Audience Segmentation for University-related COVID-19 Communications (virtual poster)
2023 Preparedness Summit (National Association of County and City Health Officials), 2023
Open Access and IRs: Educating and Empowering the Campus Community
PaLA Annual Conference, Pennsylvania State University; October 2015
Open Access (OA), Author’s Rights, and Repositories: Introduction and FAQs
Managing Your Online Scholarly Presence
May Professional Development Workshops, Arcadia University; May 2015
Searching for EBooks by Discipline: A Teaching Tool for EBook Interfaces
Yale Standing Committee on Professional Awareness (SCOPA), Yale University; April 2012
PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE)
Academy for Anti-Racist Leadership, 2022
Academic Leadership Academy, 2018
Courses
FY103 Expose Yourself to Art
US292 The Sociology of The Simpsons
FA270 Digital Imaging
FA280 Photo II
