Projects

Digitization in the Real World
Co-editor of a book of case examples that highlights highlights 34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America. This book is written by practitioners for practitioners focusing on lessons learned from small to medium-sized digitization projects.

digitalMETRO
Serving as Project Manager in the creation of a directory of digital collections created and maintained by member libraries from the Metropolitan New York Library Council. The project was built using Omeka. View the directory in it’s beta form here.

It’s How We Connect: An Introductory Screencast Series Created by the ALA Emerging Leaders Group I, Class of 2009
In coordination with ALA ITTS this group created a series of videos promoting the value of using ALA Connect for numerous purposes. Project deliverables may be viewed here: screencasts | poster.

Digital Preservation Resource Repository
A proposal created for the Digital Information Management certificate course in digital collections, the Digital Resource Repository (DiPRR, pronounced “dipper”) would collect and preserve published resources on digital preservation issues. See the proposal here.

BiblioTech: The Online Magazine By and For Tomorrow’s Information Professionals
BiblioTech is the online magazine published by the Library Student Organization at the School of Information Resources and Library Science. As the editor of BiblioTech for the Fall 2007 semester, I converted four years of BiblioTech issues (html files) to a new blog format to increase searchability, accessibility, and interaction between authors and readers. View the new issue and new format here.

Applying Social Epistemology to Digg.com
Created as a group project deliverable, this blog presentation examines the social epistemology — from an information science perspective — of the popular social networking and information sharing website Digg.com. View the project here.

Assessing Groupware: A Hands-On Experiment in Computer-Supported Groupware
For a course intended to examine human computer interaction, website design, and how information distribution and retrieval is facilitated (or hampered in some cases) via computers and networks, we were charged with assessing a number of online groupware tools in a small group of our peers. My groupmates and I decided to assess a suite of applications offered by Google intended meet individual and group needs for accomplishing a variety of computing and publishing tasks. View our assessment blog here.

A Digital Preservationist’s Code of Ethics:
Created for a course in Ethics for Library and Information Professionals, this code of ethics provides a framework for negotiating ethical issues facing professionals working on digital preservation projects. In the absence of an existing model from which to build, this code of ethics draws from ethical maxims created for librarians and archivists to create a unique framework for digital preservation specialists. See the Digital Preservationist’s Code of Ethics here.

Clamor Archive Project:
The primary deliverable for a graduate seminar in digital libraries, this project proposes an innovative archive aimed specifically at digitally preserving small press magazines. View the site here.

Planning and Evaluation of Library and Information Centers:
Focusing on the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, this group assignment called for the evaluation of an existing or fictitious library or information center that includes planning, values and vision statements, mission statement, long-term goals, and a set of strategies that are appropriate to the library setting and to the environmental information it has developed. In addition, we were asked to develop a marketing plan to be integrated into the strategic plan, and a new service that we proposed for the information center. We also developed an assessment plan that may be used to measure the impact of strategies and marketing efforts, a budget (and budget justification), and a job description and recruitment plan for our new service.
View the short presentation movie or download the formal presentation document (1.3mb).

Selecting and Describing Electronic Resources for an Educational Digital Library:
One of the primary projects for a graduate seminar in Organization of Information, this assignment charged students with building a small collection of ten electronic resources that might be included in a digital library. Intellectual and practical objectives for this work include:
• Understanding the nature of digital information resources in organizing information especially distinctions of type (form) and format, continuing/integrating, born-digital,
• Developing an awareness of electronic resources and DC metadata creation challenges
• Understanding the use of simple tools such as crosswalks
• Understanding the need for access points and controlled vocabularies
View the project here.

Creating Metadata and Evaluating Metadata Quality:
Another main project for the graduate seminar in organization of information, this assignment required students to use Dublin Core to create metadata for the 10 electronic resources chosen in the previous assignment and objectively evaluate the quality of the metadata created for the resources.
View this installment here.

Rethinking Recruitment:
Expanding on the work done in the Finding Tomorrow’s Librarians Today poster presentation, this short essay explores the recent history and current state of diversity building in library and information science professions. The paper also suggests LIS graduate programs may look toward organizations in the media justice movement for potential candidates for their programs.
Download the paper here.

Research Methods: The War Reports
This research proposal was created for a graduate seminar in research methods. Students were expected to create a research proposal on the subject of their choosing that contains: an introduction, background to the problem, a broad statement on the nature of the problem, a literature review, a theoretical framework in which the problem is placed, a statement of the hypotheses, and a methods section which includes such design details as the variables in the research, how the hypotheses could be tested / measured, which statistical tests are appropriate, and to whom the research results could be generalized. Download the proposal, “War Reports: Cable News Networks and Differences in United States Viewers’ Knowledge about the War in Iraq,” here.

Finding Tomorrow’s Librarians Today:
Created as a lesson in professional communication for a Foundations in Library and Information Science graduate seminar, this poster presentation proposes an alternative means for recruiting librarians from diverse backgrounds to the field for schooling and employment.
Download the powerpoint presentation here (2.3mb).