Professional Engagement

Professional Organizations

12×12 Challenge
2025

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
Member, 2020-present

New England Library Association (NELA)
Member, 2013-present (intermittent)

Massachusetts School Library Association (MSLA)
Member, 2020-2023; Board member, 2022-2023; Picture book column, Fall 2023-Spring 2024

Massachusetts Library Association (MLA)
Member, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)

American Library Association (ALA)
Member, 2010-2013

American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)

American Library Association Student Chapter (ALASC)
Vice President, Fall 2010-Spring 2011; Archivist, Spring 2011-Fall 2012
Member, 2010-2012

Young to Publishing Group
Member, 2007-2010

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
New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS), July 29-August 2, 2013, with Maureen Sullivan
New England Library Association (NELA) Conference: Libraries as a Community Partner, October 20-22, 2013
Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Conference: Expedition Library: Let’s Go!, May 7-8, 2014
BookExpo America (BEA) and BookCon, May 28-31, 2014
New England Library Association (NELA) Conference: Be Bold. Libraries in the Center Ring, October 20, 2014
Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering: “Privacy in a Networked World,” Harvard Science Center, January 23, 2015
Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Conference: Through the Library Lens, May 4-5, 2015
Libraries in a Post-Truth World, Phillips Academy, Andover, January 26, 2017
Massachusetts Library Association (MLA) Conference: Charting Our Course, May 23, 2017
Libraries in a Post-Truth World: The Conversation Continues, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, October 13, 2017
Re-energizing Your Customer Service Skills, presented by Sally Ijams of Darien Library (CT), at the Newton Free Library (MA), November 8, 2017
Public Library Association Conference “Imagine the Possibilities,” Philadelphia, PA, March 20-24, 2018
MLA Conference “Libraries: Our Common Wealth,” Framingham, MA, May 23, 2018
MLA Confronting Inequality conference, Milton Public Library, MA, October 18, 2018
NELA “The Library Is Your Space,” Warwick, RI, October 22-23, 2018
NERTCL Spring Conference: Transform Our Communities, Transform Our World, Nevins Memorial Library, Methuen, MA, March 29, 2019
MLA annual conference, Framingham, MA, May 20-22, 2019
NELA “Challenging Expectations Together,” Mystic, CT, October 20-22, 2019
SCBWI Winter Conference, February 19-21, 2021
MSLA Conference “Gear Up: Moving Forward Together,” March 20-22, 2023
MLA Conference “The Heart of the Community,” Framingham, MA, May 2024
NESCBWI Spring Conference “Hope is the thing with feathers,” Stamford, CT, May 2025

Webinars and Online Courses

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
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
Genre Studies (series of webinars) with Joyce Saricks through the Maine State Library, October 2013-February 2014
Tackling Fiction: Weeding Tips, Booklist Online, with Rebecca Vnuk and Amy Pattee, March 25, 2014
Top Ten Skills for Teaching Tech to Patrons (OCLC/WebJunction) with Crystal Schimpf, August 14, 2014
Introduction to Cyber Security, Open University/FutureLearn with Cory Doctorow, October-December 2014
Get Up and Move! Why movement is part of early literacy skills development, University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool, Dr. Allison Kaplan, webinar archived from April 9, 2014, watched November 20, 2014
Reaching All Readers: New Multicultural Books for Children and Teens, Booklist Online, archived from May 13, 2014, watched November 30, 2014
Why Your Library’s Privacy Policy Matters, ALA Booklist webinar, December 4, 2014
What We’re Reading for Fall 2015: Staff Favorites from Penguin Random House, Booklist webinar, May 12, 2015
Discovering Great Mysteries Hidden in Plain Sight, Booklist webinar, May 19, 2015
Gale’s Research in Context Preview, MBLC/MLS webinar, June 12, 2015
Book Group Crystal Ball: Summer & Fall 2015, Booklist webinar, July 14, 2015
Minuteman Library Network Encore catalog staff training, July 30, 2015
Designing Interactive Library Spaces and Collections, Simmons SLIS Continuing Education, March 2016
Resilience, Grit, and Other Lies: Academic Libraries and the Myth of Resiliency, ACRL, May 2017
Compassion Fatigue, Elissa Hardy from Denver Public Library, through the Massachusetts Library System, June 2017
“The Fake News Controversy: What Does It Mean for Libraries?” Library Journal, June 2018
“Listeners’ Advisory with Joyce Saricks,” Booklist, August 2018
“Library Legislative Day Success,” PC Sweeney, EveryLibrary, February 2019
“An Introduction to the Whole Book Approach,” Megan Dowd Lambert, Massachusetts Library System, January 2020
Project READY
Early Grades Literacy: From Research to Practice: Evidence-Based Early Literacy, 2022-2023
MassCUE Digital Citizenship Summer Webinar series, July/August 2023

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
Privacy Workshop with Alison Macrina (Watertown Free Public Library), Kade Crockford and Jessie J. Rossman (ACLU), August 15, 2014
Decision Center, Minuteman Library Network, March 17, 2015
Assistive Technology In-Service Training, Perkins, March 26, 2015
CPR/AED training, Winchester Public Library, September 20, 2019
Youth Services Interest Group meeting; Rhonda Cunha presented “Understand the Mechanics of Literacy Acquisition for Targeted Readers’ Advisory,” Woburn Public Library, January 13, 2020