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 Vice President, Justin is responsible for both the Library and Information Technology organizations at St. Lawrence. This position, created in 2012, attempts to seize opportunities for maximized efficiency and effectiveness between the two organizations supporting the SLU community as they produce, consume and analyze all forms of information. Justin has worked in higher education since 1994 in various technical and leadership capacities and has consulted, presented and authored in that period. Justin is on the Board of Directors for both EDUCAUSE and NYSERNet, non-profit organizations supporting higher education and the use of information technology. He also is a member of the Microsoft Higher Education Advisory Group (HEAG). Justin holds a BA in Mathematics, an MS Ed in Instructional Technology from SUNY Potsdam and is a 2001 Frye Leadership Institute fellow.