Get to know me

About Me: Past

Born and Raised in Jacksonville

Undergraduate experience: University of Central Florida in Orlando Creative Writing, Journalism, Women’s Studies Orange County Library System (Public)

About Me: Present

LIS student at Florida State University (Not UF) Scholarly Communications Social Media Management & Marketing Indexing FSU Digital Library metadata updates DOR committee

President of the ALA student chapter at FSU

Treasurer of the Black Graduate Student Association chapter FSU

2014 ALA Spectrum Scholar

About Me: Quirks!

Cat Lady

Why I chose library school

Tumblarian

Community and Volunteering

Traveling

Zines

Old Movies

“artsy”

Food

Personality Indicators: Virgo, INFJ, Green

ARL CEP Internship

ARL 2014 cohort

Career Enhancement Program

Symposium in Philadelphia in January Presentations Networking Discussions Swag Snow!!

Cohorts

Webinars

Job Postings

Travel Scholarships

My internship

User Experience Projects:

Course Guides & LibGuides

Usability prototyping & testing

Guide on the Side UX Content Personas

Mentoring Guidance on research

methods Career & job search

advice

CEP Study Plan Meetings with Librarians

in various departments Reading & Webinars

Libguides

CourseGuides

Guide on the Side

Impressions of University of Arizona Libraries

MEETINGS!

Forward-thinking

Frequent Bells

Receptive to new ideas (space, suggestions, etc.)

Understand importance of work-life balance

Big, multiple libraries

Project management & professional organization

Cool stuff: Expresso books, press, wepa printing, authors

Learning new things

Usability

Project Management Tools & procedures

Information resource management

Reference

Assessment

Instruction

Research Library as Work Environment

Governance

Committee work & Scholarship

Classes

Summer Classes: Information Policy Digital Libraries

Decided to take a Research class in the fall

Not hands-on

No need to take Usability class

Exploring & Fun

Getting to know Tucson

Hot Summer

Road Trips!

ALALas Vegas2014

Mom Visits

Los Angeles

The Future

Taking things back to FSU

People don’t know much about our iSchool

Diversity initiatives

More active engagement, more participation

University Press of Florida collaboration FSU Schol Comm

Many pictures of cacti

Goals

Short-term Multicultural Information Exchange (MIX) A better ALA chapter for distance students Posters, research, publishing Conferences– ACRL, ALA 2015, etc.

Long-term Graduating! Finding an amazing job Study abroad somehow?

Q&A

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