Assistant University Librarian
Office: L-306A, Marston Science Library
Phone: (352) 273-2715
Email: suzanne@ufl.edu
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7019-1995

Education:
M. S. Cornell University
B. A. Carleton College

Research Interests: publishing practices of agricultural scholars, information literacy, open access publishing, and preservation of historic agricultural publications.

Subject Responsibilities: Agronomy, Center for Aquatic & Invasive Plants, Environmental Horticulture, Horticultural Sciences, Plant Pathology, Plant Molecular Cell Biology Program

IFAS Research & Education Center Responsibilities: Citrus (Lake Alfred), Everglades (Belle Glade), Gulf Coast (Balm), Indian River (Ft. Pierce), Mid-Florida (Apopka)

Recent Publications:

• Stapleton, S. C., Dinsmore, C. S., Van Kleeck, D., and Ma, X. 2021. Computer-assisted indexing complements manual selection of subject terms for metadata in specialized collection. College & Research Libraries. Association of College and Research Libraries. [in press]
• Johnston, C., Stapleton, S., and Smith, P. L., II. 2021. Creating a test kitchen for research
  data management with UF/IFAS Global Feed the Future – Haiti. In B. Buljung & E.
  Bongiovanni (eds.), The ACRL Scholarly Communications Cookbook. Association of
  College & Research Libraries (ACRL). Chicago, IL. [in press]
• Birch, S., Stapleton, S., and Vargas-Betancourt, M. 2020. Outreach from academic
  libraries: Supporting our local school district’s diversity initiative. College & Research
  Libraries News, 81/7: 345-349. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.81.7.345
• Stapleton, S. C., Royster, M., Bharti, N., Birch, S., Bossart, J.L., Butts, S., Cataldo, T.
  T., Gonzalez, S. R., Minson, V., Putnam, S. R., and Yip, C. 2019. Girls Tech Camp:
  Librarians inspire adolescents to pursue STEM careers. Issues in Science and Technology
  Librarianship, 92: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/istl/index.php/istl/article/view/22/61
• Stapleton, S. C. 2019. A team approach: Library publishing partnerships with scholarly
  societies. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 7(1):
  https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2326
• Stapleton, S. C. 2019. Urgenci: International Network of Community Supported
  Agriculture (urgenci.net). Journal of Agricultural and Food Information, 20/3: 196-205.
  https://doi.org/10.1080/10496505.2019.1630788
• Google Scholar Profile

Recent Grant Activities:

• Historical Naval Stores Review preservation and digitization [Pine Chemicals, Inc. Project Award]. Stapleton, S., Hodges, A. W., Perry, L., Pursley, T.
• Discovery and usage of digital items with enhanced metadata: a test case of machine-aided indexing [Smathers Library Strategic Opportunities Grant]. Stapleton, S.,  Dinsmore, C., van Kleek, D., Spears, L, Perry, L. and Phillips, R.  (https://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00010234/00002)
• UF Library Journal Publishing Survey – 2019. Stapleton, S., Johnston, C., and Collins, P. (report: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00011146/00001; video summary: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00011136/00001)
• Preserving Florida’s agricultural history: Digitization of the Florida Cattleman & Livestock Journal.  Stapleton, S. C. (report: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00009276/00002; video introduction: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00010705/00001)