About me
Nicole H. Scalessa is currently Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was previously CIO at The Library Company of Philadelphia where she worked in a variety of technology capacities for 22 years. Nicole has a BA in History, Certificate in Digital Media for Print and Web from Moore College of Art and Design, and an MBA in IT Management. Previous appointments included National Digital Stewardship Association (NDSA) representative and Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries board member. She is currently on the ConnectNY Digitization committee, is a Digital Public Library of America community representative, and co-founder of the Philadelphia Regional Islandora Users Group – now the Mid-Atlantic Islandora Network. She is a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, and the Eastern New York chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has been the Communications Director for Historians Against Slavery since 2011 and was elected the Vice President of the Center for Knit and Crochet in 2016 following two years as Secretary. She is the author of Historic Reflections in Crochet (Library Company of Philadelphia: 2001) and the curator of the 2001 exhibition “The Hook and The Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in Early American Culture, 1840-1876.” She has also contributed to PieceWork Magazine (Interweave Press) and Donna Kooler’s Encyclopedia of Sewing.