• LIS 600 | Sexual Abuse Recovery Canon Website

  • In order to represent and display my research for the Action Research Project and my Independent Study, I developed a website that explains the project (and how I extended it in the Fall Semester of 2016) as well as includes the works of literature that survey participants recommended. I recorded information about the books as well, offering a synopsis, author information, and, in some cases, recommended age level and information about the degree of explicitness in the content. Utilizing spreadsheets, artwork, and website design, I incorporated technology to make a collage of my research. The website, in many ways, is a bibliographic resource, guiding individuals to books that can help them if their history involves sexual abuse. This project proved that as a librarian, I can help individuals with pathologized narratives, mental health issues, and traumatic pasts.

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• LIS 620 | The Brontë Sisters and Their Art LibGuide

  • ​I developed an extensive bibliographic resource that directs learners interested in a wide variety of approaches to Brontë studies to a plethora of materials. Learners can explore how feminism, ecology, gender, sexuality, colonialism, etc., pertains to the Brontë sisters and their work. Because of the time put in to building this site, I feel confident in my ability to make future LibGuides. Perhaps these LibGuides that I make in the future can correspond to the information needs of individuals not traditionally served in library spaces.
      

• LIS 688 | Processing Assignment Reflection

  • In this assignment, I re-processed a collection of papers by North Carolina’s first openly gay candidate for public office: Lightning Brown. The collection was in a bit of disarray, with little perceivable order in the folders, so I proposed a better plan of arrangement and description. Because I believed that most users of Lightning’s collection would want to examine how he worked to pass policy helping queer people, I placed importance on his political endeavors. For an archive user perusing Lightning Brown’s collection, materials related to the candidate’s mobilization of gay rights needed to be in a prominent place within the collection. This arrangement posits that queer individuals’ contributions to politics and history are contributions that a library values.

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• LIS 635 | Feminist Theology Flipped Instruction

  • For this assignment, I created a library instruction course presented via a website. This flipped instruction website incorporates various means of technology to instruct learners about feminist/goddess theology AND library technology. Through learning about feminist theology in a variety of resource media accessible on the website, learners engage in the flipped instruction model to experiment and explore content in their own preferred learning modality. Ultimately, it’s a project that shows library users that non-patriarchal theologies have value in the library.

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• LIS 635 | Digital Content Creation

  • “Them Bad Girls, Honey: Theorizing Lana Del Rey from a Feminist Lens” is a collection of materials that I curated on the website PearlTrees. Librarians often deal with academic subject matter and ‘high-brow’ information, but another important facet of librarianship is to attend to the recreational and personal interests of patrons. As a lover of Lana Del Rey and her music, I curated resources that theorize Lana’s music and public persona from a feminist vantage point. The resources are fun, yet scholarly, and still invite a librarian’s inquiry as to how a person might use resources for their own research.  

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• LIS 640 | Finding Aid

  • Finding Aids are library tools that I can implement in order to contribute to library programming that advocates for diversity. This finding aid, which organizes and describes my mother’s antique doll collection, offered me the experience of creating a finding aid in the best way. An awareness of how to create this type of resource can guide me as I learn how to make them more accessible, readable, and understandable to a larger array of people. Making sure, for example, that finding aids can be enlarged on screen or that they can be opened by different software platforms increases their usability by a larger number of people.

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• LIS 640 | Controlled and Uncontrolled Vocabulary

  • Through this project, I assess how standards for controlled vocabulary and the lack of standards for uncontrolled vocabulary affect the discoverability of items within a library catalogue. Standardization intrinsically has pros and cons, so the lack of standardization will inevitably incite issues as well. This presentation project looks at how controlled vocabularies and uncontrolled vocabularies make finding items easier (and sometimes even harder) for all different types of patrons.

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• LIS 688 | Stefan George Website

  • Stefan George was a gay German poet whose literary renown peaked in the years surrounding WWI. Centering Queerness: Germany’s Stefan George is my website that digitizes hand-written manuscripts by George and texts by his followers. The project emphasizes queer aspects of George’s life and offers a unique lens to examine queer identity politics, ultimately adding a voice to queer history. My poster will detail how I confronted ethical issues the project prompted. While being attentive to George’s misogyny and alleged quasi-affiliation to Nazism, I explored how George’s whole story contributes to queer history—with all of its problems and triumphs. Overall, in communicates that queer history has a place in archival work and librarianship.