Staff: Leah Root

​Leah Root

Web Services Developer

Recipient, 2021 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Professional Excellence

Information Technology Services

Milne 113
(585) 245-6061
rootl@geneseo.edu

• Library Website - Design, layout, navigation, scripting, script integration, content formatting
  • work with Research Instruction Librarians and CIT to streamline content and test usability (UX)
  • ensure WCAG Accessibility compliance
  • ensure website adheres to SUNY Geneseo branding
• Provide programming and technical support for websites, digital projects, "home-grown" applications, and third-party vendor applications.
• Research best methods and integrate them with library services and applications to increase functionality and usability.
• Technical Support to Library Staff, Faculty, and Library Patrons
• Library Accessibility Guidelines Team (LAG) Lead
• Databases: T-SQL & mySQL, administration and design,  ARGOS query generation, report, and datablock programming
• Servers: Linux RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian; Windows IIS, Windows Apache
• Platforms: WordPress, Pressbooks, Drupal, Omeka, LibCal, LibApps, LibGuides,.NET, WP-CLI, PRINCE
• Languages: C#, PHP, ASPx .NET, bash, perl, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, vue.js, JSON, Python

• Overcoming Unprecedented Adversities: The Milne Library Experience. Co-presented with Alana Nuth,  Empire State Libraries Network Academic Libraries Conference, April 14, 2022.
  Conference theme: “Bouncing Back: Our Students, Ourselves.”  
• Access for All: Web Accessibility - Library Technology Conference, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.  March 20, 2019  View or Download Slides
• Access For All: Responsive and Accessible ILLiAD - IDS Project Conference, Utica College, Utica, NY. July 26, 2018
• "Library as Publisher: The Story of Open SUNY Textbooks" - Library Technology Conference, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.  March 14, 2018  View or Download Slides
• "OpenSUNY Textbooks: How WordPress saved our Open Educational Services Program" - WPCampus: Where WordPress Meets Higher Education,  Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.   July 15, 2017  View or Download Slides
• Google Analytics Primer: How to interpret Google Analytics for different types of websites  - COMN 277 : Online Journalism,   Ginni Jurkowski. November 2016
• "Open SUNY Textbooks and Textbook Publishing Services"  (co-presented with Allison Brown) BC Campus Open Textbook Summit, Simon Fraser University Harbor Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia. May 2015
• "Keep your PC or Mac Clean with CCleaner"  Milne Library Professional Development Workshop, Milne Library. June 2014
• "Library Hours: Let's Build a Simple Widget," ALA-LITA Lightning Talk, Library and Information Technology Association Forum, Louisville, KY. November 2013

• Milne Open Textbooks
• SUNY Geneseo Eclipse
• SUNY Geneseo Milne Library Timeline of Events: 2020 -2022 Virtual Timeline
• Information Delivery Services (IDS)/ILLiad InterLibraryLoan
• LibGuides. LibAnswers, and LibApps integrations
• Consultation,  Instruction, Purchase Requests, Course Reserves
• OpenValley
• Digital Thoreau 
• Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery
• Geneseo GeoScience Collections 
• Geneseo Authors' Celebration

• Senate   2024 - present
• Chair, IDS Project Developer Search Committee   2023 - 2024
• Interim SUNYLA Delegate   2023 - 2024
• SUNY EIT Library Subcommittee   2023 - present
• SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence Subcommittee   2022 - 2023
• SUNY Geneseo IT Vulnerability Group   2020 - present
• SUNY Geneseo EIT Accessibility Team   2020 - present
• MAVERIC (Mission And Vision Exploration / Research / Investigation Committee)   2020 - present
• Chair, Library Accessibility Guidelines Team   2020 - present
• IDEA Committee (Inclusion/Diversity/Equity Anti-Racism)   2020 - 2022
• Milne Library Good Spirits Committee   2019 - present
• SUNY Geneseo EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Coordinator   2019 - 2021
• StoryTime Community Outreach Event  Advisor/Promoter   2019 - 2021
• Milne Library Social Media Committee   2018 - present
• Library Web UX Team   2018 - present
• Chair, Ad Hoc Bylaws Subcommittee for Librarians & Professional Staff Committee   2018 - 2019
• SUNYLA Delegate   2017 - 2019
• SUNY Geneseo Student Conduct and Appellate Boards   2015 - 2021
• Open SUNY Textbooks Advisory Council   2016
• LibraryJuice Academy - Moodle LMS consulting and Development   2014

• Accessibility Fundamentals - Disabilities, Guidelines, and Laws, Deque University, 2024
• Accessibility for Web Developers 1 & 2, Deque University, 2024
• Accessibility for Designers, Deque University, 2023
• Microsoft MTA Database Fundamentals, 2019
• HarvardX PH125.1x: Data Science: R, 2018
• Protecting Human Research Participants, Certified, National Institutes of Health, 2018
• MFA Imaging Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology