I am a library school instructor

I teach courses in Archival Theory, Critical Digital Librarianship, Website Design, Information Literacy, and other topics. I have current and upcoming courses with the following institutions:

• LSU’s School of Information Studies

• Library Juice Academy

I’m the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship.

We’re open peer reviewed and open access. We’re a scrappy little project that’s providing a space to promote cultural heritage digital library work, especially critical approaches to these and similar topics:

• Selection for digitization

• Metadata remediation / Context for harm reduction

• Digital humanities / Digital scholarship

• Collections as data

• Digital library technology

We are particularly interested in work that integrates feminist, antiracist, anticolonial, queer, and other critical frameworks to digital librarianship. Read more about our journal here, and the be sure to reach out if you’d like to publish with us (we’re an easy group of folks to work with).

From 2018 - 2022 I was the Head of Digital Programs and Services at LSU Libraries in Baton Rouge.

During my time there, I:

• Launched a mobile digitization lab to increase the digital cultural heritage record of smaller Louisiana cultural heritage institutions

• Developed and managed a speaker series on the topic of ethical digital collection creation and use.

• Brought in a grant to explore the ethical use of digital collections at a state-wide digital library scale.

• Assembled and managed a fantastic team of digital preservation, metadata, outreach, and digitization professionals.

See Full Resume [PDF]

Recorded Talks

• We Don’t Know If This Can Be Done, But It Won’t Be Done Without All of Us: Building an Ethical Open Data Community of Practice in Small and Medium-Sized Cultural Heritage Institutions, June 3, 2022, “Open Data: Reuse, Redistribution, and Risk” Symposium

• Y’ALL Means All: Participatory Digitization Initiatives, October 28, 2021, Louisiana Association of Museums Annual Conference

• … And 25 of Our Closest Friends: The Louisiana Digital Library as Community-Focused Data, September 18, 2020, Louisiana Association of Manuscripts and Archives (LAMA) Annual Meeting

Before coming to Louisiana, I was a librarian and archivist in Philadelphia.

I was the Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology at the American Philosophical Society Library

• There I founded the Center for Digital Scholarship and worked with a wide range of stakeholders to find ways to increase engagement with library materials via digital tools and methods. This work is being carried on currently by a great group of people.

I was also the Web Development Librarian at the American Philosophical Society Library

• During this time, I developed web applications for the library content discovery and sharing; developed and maintained digital library infrastructure; built and managed an ecosystem of software solutions to the needs of the institution.

General Skills

I also have experience:

• Building and maintaining complex websites and managing content management systems

• Communicating complex and technical ideas to varied stakeholders

• Representing organizations at national and international conferences, and growing organizational reputations

See Full Resume [PDF]