James Murdock joined the Library in September as the Digital Scholarship Services Manager within Integrated Technology Services. Prior to Brown, James served as the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Director of Digital Strategies. In this role, he oversaw the development of online tools to disseminate the work of the foundation and its grantees—including the complete overhaul of Carnegie’s website, which re-launched on July 27, 2015, as well as the creation of a digital storytelling platform and mobile apps.

Before joining Carnegie in 2013, James was The New York Public Library’s Director of Multimedia Content. There, he and his team designed cutting edge mobile, social, and video tools—such as the award-winning iPad app Biblion—to showcase NYPL’s special collections as well as build online communities around the library’s educational programs. In previous positions at NYPL, where he began serving in 2008, James was the Audio/Video Manager, in charge of setting production guidelines for filming some of the library’s more than 55,000 public programs each year. He also belonged to the digital strategy team that re-launched nypl.org in 2010.

Since 2011, James has served on the board of the nonprofit FilmShop, dedicated to building a community of independent filmmakers and transmedia producers in the New York area and beyond. James’s early career included ten years as a print, radio, and video journalist. He was the news editor of the leading design journal Architectural Record; a freelancer for American Public Media’s Marketplace; and an associate editor of the real estate journal Commercial Property News. He also co-authored the textbook Serving LGBTQ Teens: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.

James earned a Bachelor’s degree from Brown, where he double-majored in Architectural History and Urban Studies, and received his Master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he concentrated in magazines and radio.