Portfolio

Open Educational Resources (OER) Practicum

In Spring 2023 I took part in a practicum with a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Iowa with a goal to support OER adoption and creation at the University of Iowa. Among the projects I have completed are:

• Significant revisions to UI’s Pressbook for faculty receiving OER development grants
• Significant revisions to the UI Libraries’ OER LibGuide
• Support, revisions, and web migration for IowaOER’s online training modules
• Support materials for faculty interested in OER grants, including several PowerPoints and educational infographics.

Research Data Services Content

In Fall 2022 I began working for UI Libraries’ Research Data Services unit, creating instructional materials and website content for an audience of researchers to support open science and open data practices. Some examples of my work are below:

• Instructions for depositing data in UI’s institutional repository, Iowa Research Online
• Information about optimizing spreadsheet data
• Blog posts about the benefits of sharing research data, the value of data curation, using the institutional repository, and the importance of persistent identifiers.
• Glossary of data terms
• Matrix of data-related policies at University of Iowa

Reparative Description Practicum

In Spring 2022, I completed a practicum at Colorado State University’s Morgan Library where I spearheaded a reparative description project for Digital and Archives Services to revise sexist, racist, homophobic, and colonialist content from descriptive metadata.

During my Digital Environments class in Spring 2022, I created this online exhibition using Scalar. Although the content of my exhibition was exploring the American Library Association’s activities in WWI, the true focus of the project was to use, analyze, and assess the platform itself.

(Please note that this exhibition is best viewed on a desktop.)

Libraries, the Military, and Reading in WWI

Infographics

In Fall 2021 for Cultural Foundations of Library Science, I researched Controlled Digital Lending and its associated copyright issues. From that research I created two infographics: the first is intended for library users to understand the high costs associated with e-book licenses, the second is intended for librarians wanting to better understand CDL.

Library E-Books

Controlled Digital Lending

Instructional Materials

Overview of EBSCO Tools

I created this video for a project in Computing Foundations in Library Science in Fall 2021. The goal was to introduce a specific audience to a tech tool of our choice. Knowing the struggles undergraduates sometimes have with features of databases, I focused on introducing an audience of first- and second-year undergraduates to tools for saving and citing articles they find.

Sample Reports

Below are some examples of reports written during my role as Director of Composition Placement at Colorado State University.

These reports were aimed at an audience of the Department Chair and the Director of Composition to update them on various activities of the Composition Placement Program.