Career Profile
Dynamic librarian and technologist with extensive experience in digital project management, training and customer success, and collaborative initiatives in academic settings. Proficient in supporting a wide range of digital tools and platforms, adept at fostering engaging digital learning environments and enhancing user experiences.
Experience
As a key member of a specialized team, I spearhead initiatives in digital classroom publications and Open Educational Resources (OER), driving campus-wide digital scholarship and digital humanities engagement.
Core Responsibilities
- Digital Project Collaboration: Partner with faculty to implement digital publishing and OER in classes, prioritizing accessibility, copyright, and privacy.
- Project Management: Draft and oversee project charters and documentation, aligning goals, timelines, and stakeholder capacity for efficient project completion.
- Technical Development: Design wireframes, prototypes, and custom site templates; collaborate with developers for bespoke integrations.
- User Support: Provide comprehensive support for tools like PubPub, WordPress, Zotero, and Hypothesis through documentation, helpdesk tickets, consultations, and workshops. Communicate directly with developers regarding questions, feature requests, and bug reports.
- Academic Partnership: Address research and teaching needs in designated departments through library instruction sessions, research support guides, one-on-one consultations, and ticketed support.
- Committee Participation: Actively contribute to IT governance and infrastructure committees, including the university’s Committee on Information Technology and the library’s UX Committee.
Accomplishments
- COVID-19 Response Leadership: Instrumental in coordinating the university’s remote teaching response during COVID-19, including managing a Slack workspace for key stakeholders and co-facilitating a faculty learning community that saw 90% faculty engagement.
- Hypothesis Software Integration: Led the pilot and adoption of Hypothesis annotation software, achieving over 30% student engagement each semester through dedicated outreach and faculty training.
- Canvas Integrations: Led efforts to integrate library services into the university’s Canvas LMS instance, including the library’s LibGuides and course reserves systems.
As eLearning Librarian, I played a pivotal role in enhancing the university’s online and blended learning experiences.
Core Responsibilities
- Online Course Development: Collaborated with faculty and staff to design and support blended and fully online courses.
- Instructional Roles: Taught fully-online sections of “LIB100: Academic Research & Information Issues” and integrated open pedagogical practices, including student-directed projects and ungrading.
- Resource Development: Created and managed online learning objects to support library instruction.
- Information Literacy: Delivered both in-person and online information literacy and library research instruction sessions across a wide variety of courses.
- Zotero Support: Expanded the library’s Zotero support, creating comprehensive documentation, conducting communication and outreach, and facilitating faculty and student workshops.
- Department Liaison: Managed budgets and served as the liaison for counseling and education departments, ensuring diverse and up-to-date collections.
- Strategic Planning: Was actively involved in the University’s Vision 2020 strategic planning initiatives and the library’s interim 3-year strategic plan.
Accomplishments
- Education Library Revamp: Spearheaded the the complete overhaul of the Education Department’s Curriculum Resources Center, enhancing collection diversity and organization.
- Zotero Leadership: Led the university’s transition away from EndNote to Zotero; met with faculty and administrators to advocate for and answer questions about the free and open source tool. Kept faculty up-to-date when new features became avaialble.
- MOOC Development Created and facilitated “RootsMOOC,” a genealogy and family history research course that enrolled 4000+ individuals, and “ZSRx: The Cure for the Common Web,” a web literacy course with 700+ participants.
Projects
Significant projects that highlight some of my recent work.
Domestic Knowledge
- A student-produced respository of recipes transcribed from 17th & 18th Century manuscript recipe books, built on PubPub with custom integrations. Collaborative effort between WFU professor of history, Knowledge Futures Community Services, and the library. NEH-funded.
Gender & Sexuality in World History
- Student-authored essays examining gender and sexuality topics through the lens of primary sources. Each semester, students produce a new volume, often reading and building upon the work of previous students.
The Performance of Roman Comedy
- Documenting the curriculum and events of an NEH-funded institute for classics instructors in higher education. Participants used PubPub to create and share curriuclum resources
Selected Publications
Making history together: reflections on trust, connection, and finding joy in the archives
In Exploring Inclusive & Equitable Pedagogies: Creating Space for All Learners. Association of College and Research Libraries. 2023.
Developing an open primary source reader on gender and sexuality
In Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research. Rowman & Littlefield. 2021.
2020 top trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education
College & Research Libraries News, 81(6), 270. 2020.