Library Faculty

Rhonda works with students and faculty, assisting them with their research needs. As a member of the Library Instruction team, she helps provide classroom bibliographic instruction in the humanities and social sciences. She meets with students one-on-one to offer hand tailored research consultations.

Rhonda oversees Access Services, which includes the Circulation and Reserves departments. She can help you with questions regarding your library account, placing materials on reserve, and creating coursepacks. She has a BA in Anthropology from Binghamton University, a MALS from Stony Brook University, and received her MLS from Albany University.

Gwen Cunningham is the Science Librarian at St. Lawrence University. Gwen has an M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.  She comes to SLU with past experience at Brown University’s Center for Digital Initiatives as well as the Providence Athenæum.

Gwen provides research assistance and support to both faculty and students.  She is available to provide classroom instruction to the science departments on campus.  She can be found at the Launders Science Library in Madill Hall which houses the University’s science collections and GIS services.

Paul Doty began his duties as Special Collections Librarian for St. Lawrence University with the start of 2018.  Paul has been a librarian at St. Lawrence for twenty years, and at various points in time was involved with library web development, public service, and Interlibrary Loan.  Among his interests and plans for Special Collections is continuing the important work of acquiring and making available materials about the North Country and the Adirondacks.  Along the way he has worked any number of campus committees, taught a variety of courses in St. Lawrence’s First Year Program, and published poems or essays in the Mississippi Review, the Great Lakes Review, Poetry Pacific, the Reference Librarian, and the Cortland Review.   Paul has a B.A. in English from Keene State College, an M.A. in English from the University of Maine, and an M.L.S. from SUNY Albany.

Michelle is responsible for collection development and acquisitions for the SLU Libraries, overseeing activities related to the evaluation, acquisition, licensing, and management of scholarly resources in a variety of formats. She has a BA in English/Writing from Edinboro University and received her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Her professional interests include cooperative collection development, copyright and intellectual property issues. She serves on the University Assessment Committee and participates in cooperative collection development work for ConnectNY and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Michelle acts as the SLU Libraries’ CRL Coordinator and can help with questions about CRL collections and services.

Now retired, Mark was responsible for the Library’s rare books and manuscript collections. Mark has a B.A. in English Literature from Hamilton College and a Master’s in Library Science from Columbia University. Mark taught several courses on the History of Printing and is also a printer/publisher of texts new and old at this press – Caliban Press.

As libraries and technology simultaneously evolve and integrate Matt works with librarians, staff, faculty, and students to make information findable. As the Discovery Services Librarian, he will be managing, supporting and evaluating library systems such as the discovery platform, Encore and the Integrated Library System, Sierra.

Matt served as the Technology Coordinator at a multi-library cooperative in Florida managing the ILS and shared databases and prior to that at a Big 4 professional services firm managing enterprise search in the Knowledge Management practice.

He has a MSLIS from Florida State University as well as a BS in Information Studies from FSU.  Matt has experience in serving special library patrons in the Tax, Accounting, Healthcare and Biopharma areas.