Reviews (youth fiction and nonfiction):
- Reviewer, School Library Journal, December 2020-present
- Reviewer, Kirkus, March 2022-present
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
- “Fantastical Creatures” feature for SLJ, February 2022 (print and online)
- MSLA Picture Book Column
- Picture Books with Recipes (Fall 2023)
- “Eat This, Climb That, Go There: Picture Book Biographies” (Winter 2024)
- “Who Makes the Rules? Activism in Schools,” a Mind the Middle guest blog post for SLJ’s Teen Librarian Toolbox, February 2024