{-- Library --}

This section is for my professional work as a librarian. For more information see my CV.

{ A Two-Way Street: Planning a RUSA Mentoring Program (273kb jpg) }

Poster session presented at ALA Annual 2008 Emerging Leaders Session. June 2008.

This was the poster part of a group project for ALA's Emerging Leaders program. I made the poster/images. I also laid out the handout (pdf) from text by my group members. More information on the group and the project.

{ Blackboard and TU Library (2.25mb pdf) }

Presented at "Reaching Students in New Places and New Spaces" the 2008 Spring Meeting of the Libraries of Drexel University, Temple University, and The University of Pennsylvania, June 2008.

A very brief presentation about Temple's recent work in embedding course specific library pages into Blackboard courses. The handout has notes for the slides.

{ ABCs of E-Reference (1.7mb pdf) }

Presented at ACRL-DVC Spring Program, May 2008.

An alphabetically organized talk about electronic reference. Hand-drawn slides.

{ Get Your Notes in Harmony (2.6mb pdf) }

Presented at TCLC Spring Program, May 2008.

A talk about personal organization and online applications for such. I drew all the slides. You can also download the handout for links to suggested reading and applications.

{ Subject Guides 2.0 (4mb ppt) }

Presented with Kristina De Voe at Computers in Libraries, April 2008.

Discusses Temple University Libraries' switch to LibGuides as a subject guide platform and how we've tried to make our guides more engaging.

{ Virtual Reading Rooms (6mb ppt) }

Presented at Computers in Libraries, April 2008.

A brief presentation on using rss feeds from table of contents to create subject based current awareness services as a kind of virtual substitute for journal reading rooms. (Alternate PDF of Slides)

{ College & Research Libraries News Cover }

December 2007.

My Philadelphia themed cover in honor of ALA Midwinter being here for 2008.

{ Innovative Libraries and Web 2.0 (7.5mb pdf) }

Presented to the DLC/Systems Meeting for the Office of Commonwealth Libraries' Bureau of Library Developement in Grantville, PA, September 2007.

A presentation on innovative library websites, focusing on public libraries. You can see my previous slide style here.

{ RSS: A Really Simple Introduction (html) }

January 2006

The second iteration of an introduction to RSS for my colleagues at Temple University Libraries. Poor slides.

{ Open Source Software (1.7mb pdf) }

December 2005

Presented with Fred Rowland to Temple University Libraries' Academic Assembly of Librarians. Ugly slides.

{ Novels With Indexes (160kb pdf) }

A long library school paper from 2003 on the use of indexes in fiction, including analysis of utility, examples of different uses of indexes in novels, and extensive bibliography.