About
I'm Digital Scholarship Librarian at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I support students and faculty in developing digital projects and working with data, individually and through workshops and classes on research skills and tools.
Education
- MS in Library and Information Science, Long Island University (2010)
- MA in Liberal Studies (Digital Humanities track), CUNY Graduate Center (2016)
- Bachelor of Liberal Arts, St. John's College (2008)
Research Areas
Research support across:
- Data Visualization and Mapping Data
- Finding Data and Demography
- SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)
- Comparative Literature and French
- Music research
- Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program support
- AI Literacy and Fine-tuning
Projects
DH Box
Creator and developer of DH Box, a Digital Humanities platform (NEH Start-Up Grant, 2015).
DHRIFT
Co-director of DHRIFT (Digital Humanities Resource Infrastructure for Teaching Technology), NEH Level III Advancement Grant, 2023.
Other Work
Open-source tools including Augur (reference desk statistics), Reference Agent (AI-powered library assistant), and workshop materials for teaching programming to humanities researchers.
Recent Publications
- Zweibel, S. (2022). Automating reference consultation requests with JavaScript and a Google Form. Code4Lib Journal 55.
- Zweibel, S. (2020). Scraping BePress: Downloading Dissertations for Preservation. Code4Lib Journal 47.
- Shirazi, R. and Zweibel, S. (2020). Documenting digital projects: Instituting guidelines for digital dissertations and theses. College and Research Libraries 81(7).
Focus
Teaching programming and computational methods to humanities scholars.
Teaching
Teaching graduate courses at CUNY Graduate Center including:
- Introduction to JavaScript - Project-oriented introduction to JavaScript for humanities and social science graduate students
- Python for Researchers - Data analysis, APIs, and AI-assisted coding practices
- AI-Assisted Programming (in development) - Investigative approach to AI-assisted programming
Regular workshops on command line, databases, text analysis, data management, and other research skills. Instructor at Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) teaching "Web APIs with Python" since 2018.
Service
- Chair, CUNY Library Research Artificial Intelligence Task Force (2024-25) - Authored "Evaluating AI Tools in Research Systems," approved as official CUNY policy
- CUNY Graduate Center IT Committee (2017-present)
- Chair, Web Committee, Graduate Center Library (2016-present)
- Reviewer for NEH DH grants, Library Information Technology Association, and academic journals
Contact
- Email: szweibel@gc.cuny.edu
- Phone: 212-817-7067 (or x7067 in building)
- Office: Mina Rees Library, Room 2313
- Institution: The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Address: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016