Professional Development Activities
New England Library Leadership Symposium (NELLS), July 29-August 2, 2013, with Maureen Sullivan
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 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, March 20-22
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
- Contributed to “The Open Book” column in the Arlington Advocate/WickedLocal, December 2012
- “The Open Book” column in the Arlington Advocate/WickedLocal, July 2013
- “Cutting the Cord” article in Library Journal, June 2014 (co-author with Andrea Nicolay)
- “Programs That Pop: Bigger on the Inside” article in Library Journal, October 2014 (co-author with Aimee Villet)
- Contributor to the Manual of the Future of Librarianship, January 2015
- “Postscript: Life in Letters,” The Reader’s Shelf column in Library Journal, August 2015 (co-author with Brita Zitin)
- Blurb for David Mitchell’s Slade House for LibraryReads October 2015 list
- Contributor to “13 Things Librarians Won’t Tell You (But Every Reader Needs to Know)” in Reader’s Digest, October 2015
- Readers’ advisory “5 in 15 member edition” for Massachusetts Library System, October 2015 | Video: Novels featuring real historical characters
- Guest on Central Time, Wisconsin Public Radio, discussing audiobooks (“Listen to a Good Book Lately? The Audiobook Boom Is On”), December 2015
- “New Year, Nearly New Books: Favorite 2015 Debuts,” The Reader’s Shelf column in Library Journal, January 2016 (contributor)
- “Ebooks in Libraries: Equal Access to Digital Content?” Information Today, June 2016
- Libraries in a Post-Truth World: The Conversation Continues, Boylston, October 13, 2017 (panelist with Bernadette Rivard and Andrea Fiorillo)
- “Library Positivity,” Information Today, November/December 2018 [PDF: 2018-InformationToday-LibraryPositivity]
- “Do-It-Yourself Website Usability Testing” presentation with Ran Cronin and Callan Bignoli, MLA annual conference, May 22, 2019
- “Feeling Potluck-y” presentation on library cookbook clubs with Theresa Maturevich and Lilly Sundell-Thomas, NELA annual conference, October 21, 2019
- Reviewer, SLJ, December 2020-present (e.g. The Elephant in the Room)
- Reviewer, Kirkus, March 2022-present
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
- 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
- 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
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
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
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, 2010-2013
American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T)
Member, 2010-2012
New England Library Association (NELA)
Member, 2013-2014
Massachusetts Library Association (MLA)
Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)
Member, 2020-present