Angela Perkins

Angela Perkins is responsible for the administrative management of Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) department initiatives and programs, including those related to Lafayette College faculty and student digital humanities and digital scholarship classroom and independent research projects, digitization, data management, geospatial services, etc., as well as public digital scholarship. She supervises and collaborates with a six-person team of information professionals/librarians in building relationships with campus partners, staying responsive to their digital scholarship needs; sharing knowledge and teaching skills in digital humanities and digital scholarship methods and methodologies with the Lafayette community, including directing the Digital Humanities Summer Scholars (DHSS) Program and the Digital Humanities Community of Practice; and developing communications and outreach strategies to promote DSS support services internally to Lafayette Libraries’ colleagues, and externally to the wider Lafayette community.

Angela has served as a full-time nontenured faculty librarian at Skillman Library supporting digital humanities and digital scholarship in the classroom and research since 2018. She came to Lafayette after earning a Master of Science in Information Studies (M.S.I.S.) degree from the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information in 2017. While a graduate student at UT, she served as a Graduate Research Assistant at The University of Texas at Austin Libraries’ Black Diaspora Archive, housed at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Collection; an Archives Assistant for The Archives of the Episcopal Church; and a records management coordinator for the University of Texas System’s now-defunct instructional technology department, the Institute for Transformational Learning (ITL).