I’m very excited to receive NE-ASIS&T Annual Travel Award for the Student category. Here is the essay I wrote in order to receive the award: Throughout my professional practice, ASIS&T has been an integral part of my research and my central source for networking opportunities. At the 2018 Annual Meeting, I plan on attending multiple … Continue reading NE-ASIS&T Travel Award – Student, 2018
My teaching portfolio for my doctoral-level pedagogy course is available here. It was a pleasure to consider my teaching experience thus far and create new materials. As a former instruction librarian, I was reminded this semester of how much I love teaching and enjoy incorporating new ideas into the classroom. This happened to be my … Continue reading Teaching Portfolio
I just turned in my first research portfolio as a doctoral student. It’s a beautiful mess, complete with a front page typo, that you can view here. In this semester, I tried to form a basis for future research, which involved a lot of reading about how different people define (or do not define) “information” … Continue reading Beautiful Messiness: A Research Portfolio
For our cohort’s first course together, I gave my first presentation about my PhD research yesterday. It’s nothing brilliant, and I feel rather like this guy, but still wanted to share. The slides and notes are publicly available, which may be a terrible idea from a grant-competitive perspective, but I don’t consider my doctorate to … Continue reading My First PhD Presentation
The chapter is here! The chapter is here! Last year, my students and colleagues (and students-who-are-now-colleagues) and I collaborated on a chapter for the 2017 ACRL publication Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, edited by Merinda Kaye Hensley and Stephanie Davis-Kahl. We are so excited to announce that the chapter … Continue reading Teaching students metaliteracy by creating an undergraduate research journal
I became a librarian in order to help connect people with information that will improve their lives. For one of my first doctoral courses, I submitted a statement of purpose to explain what I want to investigate in order to further this pursuit. Note: This statement of purpose is closely related to the one I … Continue reading Statement of Purpose
In April, I accepted an offer to pursue a doctorate in Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. The transition of moving to the Northeast from the Gulf Coast, combined with a summer spent working a variety of LIS jobs in fields ranging from digital archives to software technology, has kept me … Continue reading Dissertation formation: a LIS reading list
