Hi, I'm a Liaison Librarian at Mills Library, McMaster University. My liaison areas are Sociology, Art & Art History, Music, Theatre & Film, and Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. I'm also the local administrator for RefWorks and ARTstor, and was chair of the group that developed the Endeca discovery layer for McMaster's library catalogue. My research interests include: information literacy and 21st century fluencies, blended learning and blended librarianship, emerging technologies with library and teaching applications; user interface design and usability; and next-generation library catalogues.
Presentations
Reducing the Reference Collection by 75% in 75 Days: Can it be Done? (with Jeannie An and Wade Wyckoff), Canadian Library Association (CLA) (2010)
When liaison librarians at McMaster heard in summer of 2009 that we had to reduce...
Considering New Discovery Layers (with Martha Whitehead, Allan Bell, Sian Meikle, and Tom Adam), Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference (2009)
Academic libraries have numerous options for new discovery layers designed to improve our users. experience...
Implementing Endeca When You're HIP, CODI (Customers of Dynix, Inc.) Conference (2007)
Gives a user interface perspective on how McMaster University Library implemented an Endeca "front end",...
The "Fun Factor": Developing an Information Literacy Tutorial for First Year University Students, CAML/ACBM Conference (2001)
DOT@MAC (Digital Online Tutorial at McMaster) is a web-based interactive information literacy tutorial developed at...