Rachel Di Cresce is a Digital Project Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, and is currently working on the Mellon funded project ‘Digital Tools for Manuscript Study’. Her role encompasses usability testing, needs assessment, project management and outreach. Rachel works in close collaboration with the Information Technology Service department and Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto to develop modular, interoperable tools for digital manuscript scholars.
Rachel is a graduate of Queen’s University, and holds a BaH in Classical Studies as well as a Master’s of Library and Information Science from McGill University. Her current interests are IIIF, digital humanities and data management.