Kiley Jolicoeur and Sarah Allis Join Department of Digital Stewardship
Sarah Allis and Kiley Jolicoeur recently joined Syracuse University Libraries’ new Department of Digital Stewardship. Sarah Allis accepted the newly created role of Content Coordinator effective January 12, where she will maintain digital content in the Libraries’ various digital repositories, including SURFACE and Digital Collections. Kiley Jolicoeur accepted the position of Metadata Strategies Librarian effective February 2, where she will steward the metadata for digital collections, including the creation of new metadata, remediation of legacy metadata, and the designing of application profiles across collections and platforms.
Sarah Allis transitioned to her new role after working for more than ten years in the Department of Learning and Academic Engagement. Prior to that, she spent six years working on the digital library at Penn State University Libraries. Sarah has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Prior to this role, Kiley Jolicoeur worked as a graduate assistant for Syracuse University Libraries’ Department of Digital Stewardship, building skills and a deep understanding of the metadata used with our existing digital collections. As a graduate assistant, she was instrumental in the early phase of the Libraries’ migration to a new digital object management system and has experience with SURFACE, the Libraries’ institutional repository. Kiley received her Master’s in Library and Information Science degree from Syracuse University and her dual bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Classics from Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia.