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Vanessa Arce-Senati

Vanessa Arce Senati started her position as Head of Reference at the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College in the Spring 2020 semester. Her library career began at Lehman, where she was a summer intern while attending library school.

Vanessa earned her Master’s in Information and Library Science from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), where she received the Dean's Scholarship Award for Educational Diversity and Excellence. She also has a MA in French from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. She has worked in a variety of fields including teaching, translation, publishing, and customer service, possessing a diverse skill set that has proven invaluable in the field of librarianship.

Before Lehman College, Vanessa worked at the Hostos Community College Library. Along with a former Hostos colleague, Vanessa co-authored a chapter for an Association of College and Research Libraries publication on the intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy (currently under review). Her interests include Scholarly Communications, Open Access Publishing, Open Educational Resources, Reference Services and Information Literacy.

She lives and works in the Bronx.