As a librarian, I possess a scholarly interest of where librarianship, communication, and education/learning intersect. My research is focused in how library services, collections, and outreach can best enhance and support learning and community interaction. As an assessment librarian, I explore how stakeholders value the library as well as how libraries impact learning outcomes.
Articles
A Community of Curiosity: The New OLA Library Assessment Round Table, OLA Quarterly (2013)
In February of 2013, the Oregon Library Association Executive Board approved the formation of the...
Book Review: International Students and Academic Libraries: Initiatives for Success, Journal of Collaborative Librarianship (2012)
Book Review: Without A Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Journal of Collaborative Librarianship (2012)
Book Review of Without A Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide by Jessamyn C. West
Supplementing a Librarian's Information Literacy Toolkit with Textbooks: A Scan of Basic Communication Course Texts (with Melissa Kozel-Gain), Communications in Information Literacy (2011)
This inquiry subjectively examines selected basic communication textbooks for information literacy concepts from the communication...
Unpublished Papers
Competing Perspectives: Communicating the Value of School Librarians and ICT Skills to School Principals/Administrators, ALISE 2011 Conference Paper (2011)
This paper will examine how LIS schools prepare pre-service librarians to communicate with school principal/administrators...
Presentations
The Learning Narrative Within Libraries, ACRL Oregon / Washington Joint Conference (2012)
Our libraries iare rich with stories and we all play a part in enacting each...
Assessing the Strategic Credibility of Special Collections (with Erin Passehl), AAAS - Pacific Division - Library Symposium (2012)
In this time of often precarious funding at many colleges and universities, any case that...
Assessing Value from the Digital Collection End-User: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions Experience (with Thomas Hillard), AAAS - Pacific Division - Library Symposium (2012)
How end-users and stakeholders value a digital collection is one of the most compelling questions...
You’re Doing More Than You Think: Acknowledging the Small Victories in Assessing Digital Literacy Instruction, 2012 Information Literacy Summit - Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon (ILAGO) (2012)
Digital and information literacies instruction is truly a daunting and multi-faceted undertaking. Many librarians have...
Telling the Story of Your Library Services Using Storify, Oregon Virtual Reference Conference (2011)
A 5 minute lightening talk about the free web resources Storify which creates stories from...
Poster Sessions
Assessing the Strategic Credibility of Special Collections and Archives (with Erin L. Passehl) (2012)
In this time of often precarious funding at many colleges and universities, any case that...
What's the Story, Morning Glory? A Content Analysis of Land-Grant Universities Libraries Assessment and Fact Pages (2012)
This presentation reports on a content analysis of Land-Grant university library assessment web pages and...
Collaboration & Motivation for Digital Success: The Western Writers Series Digital Editions @ Boise State University (with Erin Passehl), Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference (2009)
Recently the Boise State University English Department and Albertsons Library collaborated on digitizing a collection...
Corralling Digital Collections From Across the Region: A Survey of Digital Collections in the Pacific Northwest (with Amy Vecchione and Erin Passehl), Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference (2009)
Digital collections exist at all types of institutions throughout the Northwest. Wrangling these online resources...
Visual Timeline of a Librarian's Life: Understanding the Themes, Opportunities, and Challenges of the Stages in a Career in Library and Information Studies, Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference (2009)
The poster will present a visual representation of the life span of a librarian from...