Leah Prescott is the Manuscript and Archives Librarian as well as Collections Information Technology Coordinator at Mystic Seaport Museum, where she has worked since 1984. As Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, she is responsible for supervising the Manuscripts, Charts/Maps, and Sound Archives collections of the G.W. Blunt White Library, and the corporate archives of Mystic Seaport, and as Collections Information Technology Coordinator, she oversees the administration of the Library and Curatorial management systems. She is responsible for coordinating and implementing data standards across Mystic Seaport, and integration of library and curatorial data using Encompass. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Connecticut and her Masters of Library Science from Syracuse University.