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  • Committee Member, Libraries’ Faculty Bylaws Committee, 2025-2026 Library Bylaws Committee
  • o Member, 2025-2026
  • Member, Catalog Development Advisory Working Group (CDAWG), 2023-2025 
  • Committee Member, Libraries’ Faculty Bylaws Committee, 2020-2021  
    • I created a Microsoft Teams space to aid in knowledge transfer and
      organization and migrated relevant bylaws documents.
  • Chair, Libraries’ Faculty Affairs Committee, 2019-2020  
  • Committee member, Libraries’ Steering Committee, 2019-2020 

Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, August 2019 – August 2020
Member, Steering Committee, August 2019 – August 2020

I finished out my term on the Bylaws Committee in August 2021. I volunteered to serve on
the Handbook Language Review Committee to review the Librarian Handbook and remove non-
inclusive language, update outdated policies, clarify certain policies, and migrate the handbook to
Confluence for ease of updating and access. Additionally, I served as chair of a reappointment
committee in the fall.

Served as a member of the Library Bylaws Committee, 2020-2021

  • Volunteered as a member of the Handbook Language Review Committee
  • Committee was tasked with removal of gendered, discriminatory, or exclusionary
    language; update “Director” to “Dean;” ensure policies are accurate and current;
    remove outdated information; update links to university policies; update policy on
    university equipment leaving the library; resolve any conflicting language for
    professional leave and sabbatical policy; add language on secondary assignments;
    clarify and add updated policies regarding when job changes are sent to the Faculty
    Attairs Committee (FAC); and migrate the Handbook to Confluence for ease of
    updating in the future.
    I presented an update on this committee’s work at the Fall 2021 Library Faculty
    Assembly.

Catalog Development Advisory Working Group (DAWG)
Member, 2023-2025

  • CDAWG members help gather and interpret feedback about the catalog; help the development
    team prioritize features to improve the catalog; and assist in relaying information to the wider
    staff. CDAWG members meet with the development team at each sprint review (as often as twice
    a month and otherwise may meet independently each month as needed.