Curriculum Vitae

CUNY Graduate Center

Digital Scholarship Librarian, Associate Professor

Spring 2016-Present

• Provide expertise on AI literacy and generative AI integration in academic libraries
• Support, coordinate, collaborate, and consult with faculty and students on digital research projects
• Lead library workshops on research and technology, embed in classrooms to teach digital techniques
• Lead the Web Team, determining website design and functionality
• Act as institutional expert on computer programming in the humanities
• Provide reference support and subject liaison work for: AI, Comparative Literature, Data Science, Data Visualization, Digital Humanities, French, Music

Hunter College

Visiting Lecturer

Oct. 2012-Aug. 2015

• Built and deployed a mobile, responsive library catalog for CUNY+, including custom API
• Developed Augur web application to track and analyze reference data
• Wrote macros to automate catalog operations, saving thousands of hours of labor
• Provided reference service and taught information literacy classes
• Led workshops teaching programming (Python, JavaScript) to CUNY librarians

Peer Reviewed Publications

• 2022 - Zweibel, S. Automating reference consultation requests with JavaScript and a Google Form. Code4Lib Journal 55.
• 2020 - Shirazi, R. and Zweibel, S. Documenting digital projects: Instituting guidelines for digital dissertations and theses. College and Research Libraries 81(7).
• 2020 - Zweibel, S. Scraping BePress: Downloading Dissertations for Preservation. Code4Lib Journal 47.

Invited Publications

• 2012 - Zweibel, S., and Lane, Z. Probing the Effects of Policy Changes by Evaluating Circulation Activity Data at Columbia University Libraries. The Serials Librarian 63(1):17-27.

Professional Guidelines

• 2025 - Zweibel, S. (Chair & Author). Evaluating AI Tools in Research Systems. CUNY Library Research Artificial Intelligence Task Force. Approved by CUNY Office of Library Services, October 2025.

Other Publications

• 2017 - Zweibel, S., & Smyth, P. DH Box and Access in the Digital Humanities. dh+lib.

Instruction

• 2025 - "Introduction to JavaScript." Invited workshop. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2025, Montreal, CA.
• 2024 - "Web APIs with Python." Invited workshop. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2024, Victoria, BC, CA.
• 2019 - "Web APIs with Python." Invited workshop. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2019, Victoria, BC, CA.
• 2018 - "Web APIs with Python." Invited workshop. Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2018, Victoria, BC, CA.

Invited Panels

• 2025 - "What Happens When 'Hacking' Becomes Easy? Teaching Python in 2025." Digital Humanities 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. Panelist.
• 2019 - "Digital Humanities Research Institute." ACH 2019, Pittsburgh, PA. Panelist.
• 2017 - "Open Source Lit, Open Source Crit." MLA 2017, Philadelphia, PA. Panelist.

Poster Presentations

• 2024 - "DHRIFT: Digital Humanities Resource Infrastructure for Teaching Technology." With Lisa Rhody. Poster. Digital Humanities 2024, Washington, D.C.
• 2017 - "DH Box." With Jojo Karlin, Patrick Smyth. Poster. Digital Humanities 2017, Montreal, CA.

Introduction to JavaScript

DATA 70600 / DHUM 70600 | Spring semesters, CUNY Graduate Center

Project-oriented introduction to JavaScript for humanities and social science graduate students. Topics: JavaScript fundamentals, web development, data visualization with libraries (Leaflet, jQuery).

Python for Researchers

Fall 2025 | CUNY Graduate Center

Project-oriented introduction to Python for academic research. Topics: Python fundamentals, data analysis with pandas, APIs, Jupyter notebooks, visualization, AI-assisted coding practices.

AI-Assisted Programming

DHUM 78000 / DATA 78000 | Spring 2026 (in development), CUNY Graduate Center

Investigative approach to AI-assisted programming for graduate students. Topics: Code investigation techniques, AI coding assistants, debugging, technical agency.

Committees and Working Groups

• 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)
• Digital Preservation Working Group, Graduate Center Library (2018-present)
• CUNY Libraries Alma Analytics Working Group (2019-20)
• LACUNY Executive Council (2015-17)
• Chair, LACUNY Emerging Technology Committee (2013-15)

Refereeing

• Reviewer for GC Provost's Digital Innovation Grant proposals (2017, 2025)
• Reviewer for NEH DH grants (2016, 2024)
• Reviewer for Library Information Technology Association book proposals (2019)
• Reviewer for Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (2018)