Jean and Alexander Heard Library
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37212

phone 615.343.4427
email suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu
       
   
Web Design • Information Architecture • Interface Design and Usability • Knowledge Management • Creative Inquiry
     

 

  

Career profile

  • Accomplishment oriented team player with experience in innovative collaboration with staff and technology. Use a consensus building approach to technology development and implementation for information and knowledge management and delivery. Produce consistent achievements in cutting edge delivery of library information and knowledge resources.

  • Dedicated to the importance of inquiry in human development

Career development

Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University  
  Web Development Coordinator
2005 to 2007

 

Systems/Digital Librarian for Public Services (details)
1997 to 2005

Library Information Analyst (details)
1996 to 1997

Special Collections Librarian (details)
1995 to 1996
Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University  

 

Assistant Instructional Services Librarian
1993 to 1994

 

Government Documents/ Microtext Librarian
1992 to 1993

 

Humanities Librarian
1991 to 1992
University of Rhode Island
 
  Reference Intern
1990 to 1992

Library Assistant 
1990 to 1992

Summary of Major Accomplishments

  • Project Manager and Web Developer/Designer/HTML coder for significant library web page revision. Managed Project lifecycle, insured standards compliance, collaborated with staff to design information architecture interface design and usability. Integrated dynamic delivery technologies with standard.

  • Awarded 2004 Vanderbilt Library Innovation and Creativity Award
  • Designed and coded css based websites for the Global Music Archive, State of the Library report and the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies.

  • Designed and implemented a system-wide technology training program for staff that was flexible and cost effective.

Publications

  • Stringer-Hye, Suellen. "Vladimir Nabokov and Popular Culture " Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov's Prose. Ed. David H.J. Larmour London & New York: Routledge, 2002

  • "The Weed Exiles the Flower, Melville and Nabokov" Nabokov Studies Vol. 5

  • An interview with Stacy Schiff Zembla: The Nabokov Butterfly Net

  • Breeding, Marshall Official Internet World Wide Web Yellow Pages ( Foster City; I D G Books Worldwide) 1995 . Stringer-Hye, Suellen, "Literature." 410-424.

  • An Interview with Stephen Schiff.  Zembla: The Nabokov Butterfly Net

  • Stringer-Hye, Suellen and Stringer-Hye, Richard. "Growing the Collection: Books and Videos on Yoga." Wilson Library Bulletin (January 1995) 38-41.

  • Stringer-Hye, Suellen. "Abstract Cast in Concrete: A History of English Architecture in Ada."The Nabokovian (Fall 1994) 24-27.

  • Stringer-Hye, Suellen "Nabokov in Cyberspace." The Nabokovian (Spring 1996).

  • Stringer-Hye, Suellen "CoLOlations: Nabokov in Popular Culture." Zembla: The Nabokov Butterfly Net (web site)

Education and Professional development 

M.L.I.S, University of Rhode Island. 1991. 
B.A., Spanish and Liberal Arts. University of Colorado. 1979. 

Technical training
  • Web Academy, San Jose California. Attended sessions on CGI scripting, Cascading Style Sheets, Java Scripting and XML.

Service

Presentations

  • LITA National Forum 2004, St. Louis, Missouri. A Librarian's Introduction to Topic Maps
  • 20th Century Literature Conference 2003, Louisville, Kentucky. "Life, Love and Libraries have no future; the place of the Library in Nabokov's fiction"

  • Knowledge Technologies 2002, Seattle, Washington. Organizing the Web for Better Information Retireval or Could Librarians save the Web? text powerpoint

  • Invited Presentation American Literature Association Meeting June 1996, San Diego, California."The Weed Exiles the Flower" (Nabokov and Melville).

  • MLA Annual Conference, December, 1994. Presented paper "Nabokov's Ada and Melville's Pierre".

  • "Discourse and Ideology in Vladimir Nabokov's Prose" Texas Tech University, June 1995. Presented paper "Vladimir Nabokov and Popular Culture"
Conferences
  • Knowledge Technologies Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 10-13

  • Knowledge Technologies Conference, Austin, Texas, March 4-7

  • XML 2000 Conference, Washington D.C, December 3-8.

  • Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage, June 5, 2000, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Computers in Libraries, Arlington Virginia, March 8-11.

  • Web Design--2000, Thunder Lizard Conference, Atlanta GA February 2000

  • LOEX of the West: Cultivating the Electronic Landscape: Teaching and Learning in a Climate of Constant Change. June 9-11, 1994. Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

  • Internet: A Global Library Not a Toy July 29, 1994. University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

Professional Affiliations

Outside Interests

Iyengar Yoga
Pierre Bernard and the Clarkstown Country Club
Vladimir Nabokov