For a complete listing of presentations please see my curriculum vitae. I am interested in the effect of technology on patrons’ interactions with libraries. In particular, I am interested in the ethical implications of these interactions. This has led me to pursue topics involving privacy, social networking sites, open source technology and scholarly communications.
Peer Reviewed Publications
Examining electronic resource access policies for unaffiliated patrons at ARL libraries, Practical Academic Librarianship (2013)
Library Values that Interface with Technology: Public Service Information Professionals, Zotero, and Open Source Software Decision Making, Library Philosophy and Practice (2013)
Privacy and Generation Y: Applying Library Values to Social Networking Sites, Community & Junior College Libraries : Special Issue: Educational Technology and the Library (2010)
Online Social Networking Sites and Privacy: Revisiting Ethical Considerations for a New Generation of Technology, Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) (2009)
Other Professional Publications
Balancing Outreach and Privacy in Facebook: Five Guiding Decision Points, Library Hi Tech News (2009)
Food and Nutrition, Available at Browse Topics: Your Pathway to Government Information [electronic database]: (2009)
Presentations
Integrating and positioning scholarly publishing into agricultural liaison and outreach services, Bi-annual conference of the United States Agricultural Information Network (2012)
Social media, information management tools and your institution, Invited workshop at the Agriculture Information Network Center Annual Conference (2011)
Ethics in a Digital World: Using Policies to Guide Professional and Personal Presence in Social Networking Spaces (with Brian Kooy, Robert S. Peck, and Ruth Connel), Invited panelist at a presentation of the ALA Committee on Professional Ethics at the annual conference of the American Library Association (2010)