The following sections contain copies of my publications. I have a mix of published items, including articles for newsletters and journals, a book chapter, and book reviews.
Work created before Reappointment
Articles
“Live Like a Librarian.” Insights: MSU Libraries, May 2012. This article was written for the Libraries’ newsletter that is sent to potential donors, among others. It was written soon after I began as a librarian and it is about using librarian skills in your everyday life.
“Scholarly Communications and Collections: From Crisis to Creative Response.” ALCTS Newsletter Online, This is a conference session report that I wrote for the ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Service) Newsletter about a session on scholarly communication and open access that was presented at ALA Midwinter. Conference reports are helpful to share what was presented at conferences with those who were unable to attend.
“Building Your Professional Toolkit.” NMRT Footnotes, This is another conference session recap that I wrote for the NMRT (New Members Round Table) newsletter on tools new librarians should work to build and add to their toolkits to become more rounded professionals.
Book Chapter
“Copyright in Academic Libraries: The Future is Now.” The New Academic Librarian: Essays on Changing Roles and Responsibilities, 2013. This is a book chapter that I wrote with our copyright librarian, Amy Blair, about the duties and responsibilities of being a copyright librarian, as well as how to become a copyright librarian.
Book Reviews
I became a book reviewer for American Reference Book Annual (ARBA) in 2012.
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Volume 1
Anatomy of Exercise for Women: A Trainer’s Guide to Exercise for Women
Encyclopedia of Populism in America: A Historical Encyclopedia
Work Created After Reappointment
Articles
“The APIs of Data.gov.” Dttp: A Quarterly Journal of Government Information Practice & Perspective, Summer 2015. This article promotes the many freely available APIs that are available through the Data.gov portal. It also explores some of the ways in which specific APIs have been used to develop apps and other websites. The publication of this article was very well received by my government information colleagues and I was asked by the organizer of the North Carolina Library Association’s Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar series asking me to present a webinar on this topic in order to reach a wider audience.
“Social Media, Privacy, and the Academic Classroom.” Urban Library Journal, 2015. This article was based on a presentation of the same name which I presented at the LACUNY (Library Association of City University of New York) Institute. As of June 26, 2017 this article has been downloaded over 100 times from researchers in 11 countries.
Blog Posts
“Seeing Through the Congressional Record with Voyant.” Posted to the Digital Scholarship Collaborative’s blog, the DSC Sandbox on December 16, 2014. This post explores the use of the text mining tool Voyant on the Congressional Record. This post was created in order to publicize the acquisition of textual data for the Congressional Record (until 1918) and its predecessors.
“Catching Fugitives with Zotero.” Posted to the Digital Scholarship Collaborative’s blog, the DSC Sandbox on February 24, 2015. This post demonstrates a different way in which the citation manager Zotero is being used by government information librarians to “catch” so called fugitive documents (these are documents which should be sent to depository libraries but are not) in an effort to report them to the Government Publishing Office to ensure their preservation.
“Digitizing Government and the Copyright Hurdle.” Posted to the Digital Scholarship Collaborative’s blog, the DSC Sandbox on June 17, 2015. This blog post highlights an issue that is often forgotten when it comes to government documents: while most federal publications are in the public domain, this is rarely the case for local and state government documents. It can also be incredibly difficult to track down the copyright owners with these documents, thus making digitization projects for these often hard to find publications very difficult.
Book Reviews
The Grey House Homeland Security Directory 2014
Reference and Access: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead
The Grey House Homeland Security Directory, 2015
State Profiles: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State