A kind, convivial leader with broad public services experience, including:
​assessment, instruction, circulation, reference, distance learning, special collections, and archives.

Library Experience

Associate Dean for Academic Engagement and Public Services and Assistant Professor, Wichita State University
  • started June 2018
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Instruction & Reference Librarian, Fort Lewis College
  • Managing and Coordinating the Integrated Library Instruction program; maintaining contact with Writing Program leadership; Managing the collaboration of Library faculty and Composition instructors
  • Teach a high number of sessions within the Integrated Instruction program 
  • Train new librarians in the areas of reference and library instruction
  • Providing specialized instruction for music, theatre, and art courses
  • Managing and overseeing all reference and research services offered by Reed Library, including reference desk activities, research appointments and chat services
  • Overseeing policies and procedures for the reference services, reference service peer coaching and implementation of new services and technologies
  • Supervising one Reference Assistant
  • Chair of the Outreach Team, Reference Team, and Instruction Team
  • Utilizing assessment tools to determine the effectiveness of Library Reference and Instruction services
  • Overseeing collection development for music materials
  • Serving as academic department liaison to Music, Theatre, and Native American and Indigenous Studies
  • Participating in Librarians’ Council, Budget Team, Assessment Team, and other library governance teams as appropriate

Circulation Supervisor, Fort Lewis College
  • Coordinating the daily operations of the circulation department, including activities of staff and student workers
  • Working in several Sierra (III) modules, including Circulation, INN-Reach, Bookings, and Cataloging
  • Monitoring student worker budget
  • Hiring, scheduling, evaluating, and overseeing training of approximately 20 student workers

Reference Librarian/Assessment Coordinator (Assistant Professor), Valdosta State University
  • Planning, developing, and implementing assessment programs and strategies consistent with the Library’s mission
  • Chair of the Strategic Planning Task Force
  • Serving on campus committees, including the University Assessment Committee
  • Providing reference services to the campus community in person and through online chat, email, text message, and phone
  • Teaching library instruction sessions in a variety of subjects
  • Creating LibGuides
  • Co-instructor for Perspectives on the Information Society (3-hour credit-bearing course)
  • Serving as an embedded librarian in online courses

Reference/Instruction/Outreach Librarian (Instructor), Valdosta State University
  • Coordinating the library's embedded librarian program to meet the needs of online and hybrid classes
  • Supervising an embedded librarian intern
  • Coordinating distance services to remote users and a branch campus
  • Providing reference services to the campus community  in person and through online chat, email, text message, and phone
  • Teaching library instruction sessions in a variety of subjects
  • Participating in outreach activities (helping students move into residence halls, organizing a library pajama party for finals, etc.)

Intern, Florida State University London Study Centre Library
  • Collection development
  • Cataloging
  • Circulation
  • Reference and instruction

Graduate Research Assistant in Special Collections, Florida State University
  • Processing a large manuscript collection, including surveying, arranging, describing, and performing light preservation duties
  • Assisting with planning and installation of exhibits
  • Reference

Library Technical Assistant in Special Collections, Florida State University
  • Creating desk schedules for the Special Collections reference desk
  • Manuscript processing
  • Reference
  • Serials processing

Student Assistant in Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma
  • Manuscript processing
  • Reference
  • Serials processing
  • Training new student workers

Education

MEd Higher Education Leadership program  in progress (ABT)  - Valdosta State University
MLIS - Florida State University
BA Letters (with Distinction) - University of Oklahoma
Summer program - Harvard Summer School

Publications

2017
* Review of North American Theatre Online. ccAdvisor.
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Tough crowd. ACRL Instruction Section Semi-Annual Newsletter. 

2015
Self-mentoring 101: A field guide for librarians. In A. Walsh & E. Clement (Eds.), Inspiring, innovative and creative library interventions: An i2c2 compendium (pp. 87-102). Huddersfield, UK:Innovative Libraries.

Data Visualization as a Communication Tool. (Co-authored with Susan Archambault, Joanne Helouvry, Bonnie Strohl) Library Hi-Tech News. 32(2), 1-9.


2014
Review of the book Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know. Edited by Alice L. Daugherty and Michael F. Russo. Library Quarterly, 84(4), 504-505.

You Don’t Have to Do All the Things to be an Awesome Librarian. Really. The sequel. [Web log post]. Letters to a Young Librarian.

Guest column: “New Perspectives in Leadership: Helping your New Librarians Self-Mentor”. Library Leadership & Management. 28(3).

*peer reviewed
2013
* Case analysis of Olivia: Applying Gilligan’s theory of women’s moral development. Palmetto Practitioner. 

You Don’t Have to Do All the Things to be an Awesome Librarian. Really [Web log post]. Letters to a Young Librarian. 

2012
Off the Shelf Book Review: Purity, by Jackson Pearce. Georgia Library Quarterly, 49(2), 25.

2011
* A History of the Embedded Librarian Program at Odum Library. (Co-authored with Laura Wright) Georgia Library Quarterly, 48(4), Article 4 .

My Own Private Library. Georgia Library Quarterly, 48(1), 4-5.

Off the Shelf Book Review: Sisters Red, by Jackson Pearce. Georgia Library Quarterly, 48(1), 24.

Presentations

2017
  • When Down is Up: Leveraging a Classtime Reduction into Library Instruction. Poster session at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD

2014
2013
  • Assessment Librarianship 101: What does an assessment librarian do, anyway? Southeastern Library Assessment Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm? Essential Guidance for Noob Academic Librarians. Panel presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Indianapolis, IN
2012
  • Evaluating Reference Customer Service with Secret Shoppers. Panel presentation at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations, Macon, GA
  • Academic Librarians at Universities Large and Small are embedding. Are you? Presentation at the Online Lifeline Conference, Valdosta, GA

2011
  • One Size Fits No One: Embedded Librarian Programs in the University System of Georgia. Panel presentation at the Georgia Council of Media Organizations, Athens, GA
  • Using Digital Media to Support College Student Learning. Panel presentation at the Online Lifeline Conference, Valdosta, GA

Professional Affiliations

American Library Association
  • Library Leadership & Management Association
  • Association of College & Research Libraries
Kansas Library Association
​Beta Phi Mu

Current Committee Service
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- LLAMA - Library Organization and Management Community - Practical and Applied Management Committee
- LLAMA - Assessment Community - Services Committee

Training Highlights

ACRL Immersion - Assessment
Using LibQUAL+® Effectively and Strategically

Teaching

Perspectives on the Information Society, Valdosta State University
Spring 2014

Introduction to Library Resources, Valdosta State University
Spring 2012, Spring 2011

Other interests

I am a librarian, but not just a librarian. We are all people, too, after all. 

My other interests are eclectic: I enjoy playing viola with symphonies, such as the San Juan Symphony, Valdosta Symphony, and Tallahassee Symphony, to name a few. I have played in duos and quartets for over a hundred weddings (but I'm not counting). Non-classically, I have also recorded on numerous albums and performed at SXSW and the Troubadour with the Starlight Mints. When I have the time and space, I enjoy homebrewing with my husband. I enjoy taking my boys to the park and letting them "help" me cook.​ I'm a voracious coffee drinker who also loves naps.