Professional Organizations
Young to Publishing Group
Member, 2007-2010
American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC)
Vice President, Fall 2010-Spring 2011; Archivist, Spring 2011-Fall 2012
American Library Association (ALA)
Member, 2010-present
American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Member, 2010-2012
New England Library Association (NELA)
Member, 2013
Professional Development Activities
Conferences:
- Developers & Designers, February 5, 2011
- Content Management Systems, March 9, 2011
- ACRL Creative Collaborations: Remake, Remix, Remodel, May 13, 2011
- ALA Annual Conference, June 23-28, 2011
- Wikipedia Higher Education Summit, July 8, 2011
- Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Conference: Book to the Future, May 10, 2012
- New England Library Association (NELA) Conference: Librarians’ New Dawn, October 14-15, 2012
- Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Conference: Inform, Inspire, Ignite!, April 24-25, 2013
Workshops (at the GSLIS Tech Lab, unless otherwise indicated):
- CSS, July 20, 2010
- Wiki Gardening, October 19, 2010
- Zotero, October 19, 2010
- Adobe Photoshop CS5, November 16, 2010
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, February 28, 2011
- Choosing the Right Content Management System (CMS), March 3, 2011
- Drupal, March 15, 2011
- Git, March 17, 2011
- Bookmaking for Beginners, October 22, 2011 – GSLIS Continuing Education
Webinars:
- ShelfLife, Harvard Library Innovation Lab (Berkman Center for Internet & Society), November 9, 2010
- What’s Next for Your Career? with Caitlin Williams (ALA), January 11, 2011
- Introduction to Information Architecture with Donna Spencer (ASIS&T), January 14, 2011
- Library Snapshot Day (ALA Committee on Library Advocacy), March 30, 2011
- Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories (Bill LeFurgy, Library of Congress), April 28, 2011
- Academic Uses of Social Media: Exploring 21st Century Communications (Berkman Center for Internet & Society), May 3, 2011
- New Librarians Global Connection: Best Practices, Models, and Recommendations, (IFLA), January 17, 2012
- Made in a Library (OCLC/Library Journal), May 15, 2012
- Copyright Basics: What Library Folks Really Oughta Know, Mary Minow (LibraryLaw), January 16, 2013
- Hot Topics in Copyright, Mary Minow, January 30, 2013
- Are Books Your Brand? How Libraries Can Stay Relevant to Readers, Library Journal/NoveList, February 14, 2013
- Library Learning Goes Online (American Libraries Live), May 9, 2013
Discussions, Lectures, Trainings, and Meet-ups:
- ALASC Brown Bag Lunch: Discussion on the topic of Advocacy, September 29, 2010
- Dr. Andrew Jameson, lecture on the Library of Alexandria, October 14, 2010
- ALASC Brown Bag Lunch: Discussion on the topic of Conflict Resolution, October 20, 2010
- Peter Suber, presentation on Open Access, October 20, 2010
- ALASC Brown Bag Lunch: Discussion on Library Marketing, February 8, 2011
- ALASC Brown Bag Lunch: User Experience, March 15, 2011
- Anne-Marie Eze, lecture on rare books at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, April 20, 2011
- ASIS&T Library Science Fair, September 20, 2011
- NEASIS&T TED Talks and Discussion, November 1, 2011
- NEASIS&T Winter Meet-up: How America’s Revolutionaries Imagined Intellectual Property, December 1, 2011
- “Searching for Context: Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age,” Alison J. Head, Berkman Center & Library Innovation Lab Fellow, Harvard University, January 10, 2012
- “Building the Digital Public Library of America,” Robert Darnton and John Palfrey, Harvard University, March 2, 2012
- Edelweiss Librarian Boot Camp, July 24, 2012
- OverDrive Next Generation Digital Library, September 5, 2012
- Getting to Know Innovative Data, Minuteman Library Network Central Site, October 11, 2012
- Create Lists, Minuteman Library Network, November 15, 2012
Events, Presentations, and Writing:
- Presented the poster “Books for Cooks: The America’s Test Kitchen Library” at GSLIS After Dark, Simmons College, April 28, 2011
- Organizer and panelist at “ALA Annual 2011: A GSLIS Student Perspective,” Simmons College GSLIS, September 21, 2011
- Audience/participant at GSLIS World Usability Day Event, Simmons College, November 10, 2011
- Co-author and co-presenter of a usability study for EBSCO Publishers in Usability and User Experience Research (LIS-531Y) class; condensed version was presented to UPA Boston, December 12, 2011
- “The Open Book” column in the Arlington Advocate/WickedLocal, October 2012
