Professional Development

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