SLO # 7

SLO # 7: Artifacts

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• 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 knew I needed to develop an aesthetically pleasing website. The website would explain the project (and how I extended it in the Fall Semester of 2016) as well as include 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.

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• LIS 650 | Marketing and Outreach in Academic Libraries

  • This paper is my synthesis of seminal literature on the role of outreach and marketing in academic libraries. Through my research, I aim to show that academic librarians must proceed to be communal teachers and ambassadors, continually developing outreach and marketing initiatives to inform the uninformed about library services, to serve the underserved valuable programming, and to offer information to those systemically posited to the margins. I look at different innovative measures librarians are taking in implementing outreach and marketing plans on their campuses.

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• LIS 650 | Presentation: Marketing and Outreach in Academic Libraries

  • This presentation on the paper above illustrates the various means of outreach and marketing that can transpire in academic libraries, ultimately mobilizing the library’s services outside of the library space.

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• LIS 688 | Semester Reflections: Marketing Archives

  • In my Week 13 discussion post, I speak directly about the various means by which archivists engage in outreach and communicate their services to users. From social media to exhibitions to videos, there are a plethora of ways in which archivists can engage their communities. While Week 13 did require us to read through pertinent literature on archival marketing and advocacy, my reflections the whole semester revolved around putting the needs to archival users before anything else. The ‘more product, less process’ model in archives urged me to always consider that the patron’s research needs should be privileged over meticulously organized and processed collections. While extensively detailed organization and description have their worth, time spent processing could be better suited towards outreach and marketing endeavors.

• LIS 688 | Archives Visit

  • During my visit to the Rubenstein Library at Duke, I was able to speak to two different archivist about their work with the Sallie Bingham Center. Archivist Kelly Wooten described the necessity of engaging public interest in archives through social media outlets and Laura Micham discussed how instruction is an essential element of outreach.

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• LIS 688 | Special Collections Marketing and Outreach Plan

  • For the project that I completed on my Special Collection of Stefan George memorabilia, I created a marketing and outreach plan that details my motivation in promoting the digital repository for the materials, but also the hesitancies that I had in regards to the ethical concerns that the project raised. Advocating for my project involved promoting why my collection of materials about German poet Stefan George is, indeed, special—historically and communally. In another sense, advocating for my digital exhibition of the collection is predicated on an activist impulse to posit queer identities and stories into the historical record. While I came across some disturbing allegations about the poet during my research, I knew that ethically, I needed to portray George’s story in full—the good and the bad. By focusing on the queer elements of George’s literary life in my marketing/outreach plan, I could highlight nuances in George’s story and still feel as though my promotion of the collection was ethical.

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• LIS 656 | "Feminism in Academic Library History"

  • This paper discusses how the Women's Movement, especially second-wave feminism, shaped the way academic libraries function in educational institutions. Tracing this lineage informed my understanding of how to incorporate feminist ethics into librarianship, but it also offered me examples of how librarians can partner with LGBTQIA+ organizations on campus, Women’s Centers, and other agencies for marginalized individuals in the hopes to increase their awareness of library services.