Core Forum in Salt Lake City, UT, was a wonderful experience! The size of the conference made for excellent networking opportunities, and the content exceeded expectations. I gave two talks, and details are below: “Wait, Wait, Please Tell Me! Everything You Wanted to Know About Publishing and Presenting in LIS” with Meggan Houlihan, Head of Student […]
I was thrilled to lead “Evidence Based Practice in Libraries” with Meggan Houlihan and Claire Walker Wiley at ALA in Washington, DC! The workshop description is below: As academic libraries struggle with budget, staffing, and morale issues, evidence-based practice (EBP) becomes more and more important in our efforts to increase the impact and efficiency of […]
Claire Walker Wiley and I led an online workshop for BRASS, the Business Reference and Services Section of RUSA. The session description is below: As academic libraries struggle with budget and staffing issues, evidence-based practice (EBP) becomes more and more important in our efforts to increase the ROI on our work. EBP helps us make […]
I gave a talk at the USNA Conference on Teaching and Learning, called Scholarly publishing and you! Slides are available here, and the session description is below: The world of scholarly communications and publishing has undergone some remarkable shifts in recent years. But what does this mean for you, as a researcher and scholar? This […]
I will be moderating an on-demand panel discussion, Conducting and supporting research synthesis: Librarian roles, competencies, and collaborations, at the 2021 ALA Annual Conference. Speakers include Whitney Townsend (University of Michigan), Zahra Premji (University of Calgary), Marcus Spann (Louisiana State University), Amy Riegelman (University of Minnesota), Claire Wiley (Belmont University), and Meggan Houlihan (Colorado State […]
Meggan Houlihan, Claire Walker Wiley and I gave a talk on the final piece of our multi-method study on business information literacy at LOEX 2021. This work was funded by the BRASS Emerald Research Grant Award. Citation, session description, and outcomes are below, and slides are linked here. Wiley, C. W., Houlihan, M., Click, A. […]
I was asked to speak on a panel at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in June 2019. The panel was called Leaning international: Stories from the field, and included six librarians who had worked abroad in school and university libraries all over the world.
In June, Meggan Houlihan, Claire Wiley and I attended EBLIP (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice) in Glasgow, Scotland. We led a preconference workshop, Information overload: Using the systematic review to support evidence-based practice, and gave a talk about our most recent systematic review, Distilling the evidence: A systematic review of business information literacy. You can find the workbook from […]
In the spring of 2018, I conducted an assessment project to explore the impact of library support and services for American University business school students, faculty, and staff. Inspired by a project at the University of Washington, a one-question qualitative survey designed using critical incident technique asked respondents to share stories about their experiences with […]
Rachel Borchardt (Science Librarian, American University) and I gave a talk about our research on library open access funds. Sessions details and link to materials are below: Follow the Money: An exploratory study of open access publishing funds’ impact Academic libraries have been supporting researchers with open access funds since 2005, and more libraries join […]