Presentations

last updated: October 2021

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• “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Salaries and Working Conditions in Libraries.” With Aliqae Geraci and Loida Garcia-Febo. American Library Association Annual Conference, June 23-29, 2021.

• “When Business Meets Critical Pedagogy: Confronting Library Entanglements with Capital through Library Instruction.” With Kae Bara Kratcha and Kate Adler. Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX) Annual Conference, May 14, 2021.

• “What’s in a Name? What Named Spaces Tell Us About Academic Libraries.” With James Castrillo, Fobazi Ettarh, Harvey Long, and Cynthia Tobar. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biennial Conference, April 13-16, 2021.

• Keynote panel with Max Bowman, Beth Gallaway, and Sara Slymon. Building Life-Long Opportunities for Strength, Self-Care, Outlook, Morale and Mindfulness (BLOSSOM) Symposium, March 24, 2021. (Invited)

• “Critical Pedagogy and Library Instruction.” Invited presentation. METRO Reference & Instruction Special Interest Group, November 16, 2020.

• “Critical Reflections on the Next Normal.” Keynote presentation with Fobazi Ettarh. ACRL Delaware Valley Chapter Fall Program, October 16, 2020.

• “Putting the Self Back in Self-Care: Wellness in the Time of COVID-19.” With Amanda M. Leftwich, Fobazi M. Ettarh, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, Jenn Carson, and Madeleine Charney. National Network of Medical Libraries Webinar, April 28, 2020.

• “Deficit Thinking and Library Instruction: How to Check Assumptions and Build Upon Students’ Strengths.” Invited workshop. Maryland College Institute of Art, August 13, 2019, Baltimore, MD.

• “Coming Clean About Grit: Challenging Dominant Narratives in Information Literacy.” Keynote presentation. Connecticut Information Literacy Conference, June 14, 2019, West Hartford, CT.

• “Challenging Deficit Thinking in Academic Libraries: Ideas and Applications.” With Yi Ding, Chelsa Heinbach, Rosan Mitola, and Amy Pajewski. ACRL Instruction Section Annual Virtual Discussion Forum, June 11, 2019.

• “Critical Librarianship: Questioning with Purpose and Hope.” Keynote presentation. Penn State University Libraries Instruction Community of Practice, May 15, 2019, State College, PA.

• “Reframing Reference for Marginalized Students: A Participatory Visual Study.” ACRL Biennial Conference, April 13, 2019, Cleveland, OH.

• “From Value to Values: Information Literacy, Capitalism, and Resistance.” With Nora Almeida, Romel Espinel, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. ACRL Biennial Conference, April 12, 2019, Cleveland, OH.

• “Situating the Self: Teacher-Librarian Narratives Within and Beyond Institutional Spaces.” With Nimisha Bhat, Brittany Fiedler, Rachel Gammons, and Michele Santamaria. ACRL Biennial Conference, April 11, 2019, Cleveland, OH.

• “Social Justice and Reference.” With Kate Adler and Ian Beilin. Reference Librarianship & Justice: Critical Interventions, March 8, 2019, New York, NY.

• “Reframing Reference through Participatory Visual Methods.” American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, 24th Reference Research Forum, June 23, 2018, New Orleans, LA.

• “Beyond Resilience: Crafting a Caring Organization.” Session moderator. With Chris Bourg, Fobazi Ettarh, Derrick Jefferson, and Karen Schneider. ALA Annual Conference, ACRL President’s Program, June 23, 2018, New Orleans, LA.

• “The Problem with Grit: Dismantling Deficit Models in Information Literacy Instruction.” LOEX Annual Conference, May 5, 2018, Houston, TX.

• “Questioning What’s Given, for a Better Librarianship.” Keynote presentation. Virginia Library Association College and Research Libraries Chapter (VLACRL) Spring Program, April 12, 2018, Williamsburg, VA.

• “Reproducing and Resisting Capitalism through Information Literacy.” With Nora Almeida, Romel Espinel, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. Libraries in the Context of Capitalism Symposium, February 2, 2018, New York, NY.

• “Learning About Student Research Practices through an Ethnographic Investigation.” With Natasha Tomlin and Kimberly Mullins. Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Biennial Conference, June 19, 2017, Philadelphia, PA.

• “Critical Library Practice and Higher Education: Locating Spaces of Agency and Resistance.” With Sofia Leung and Vani Natarajan. Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) Annual Conference, June 1, 2017, Toronto, Ontario.

• “Invisible Barriers and Subversive Practices: Critical Librarianship in Higher Education.” With Veronica Arellano Douglas, Joanna Gadsby, Sofia Leung, and Angela Pashia. Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference, May 22, 2017, Los Angeles, CA.

• “Academic Libraries and the False Promises of Resiliency.” With Jacob Berg and Angela Galvan. Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene Colloquium, May 14, 2017, New York, NY.

• “Library Workers Today: Strong Staff Equals Strong Service [panel questions].” With Julie Tozer, Aimee Fernandez, Maryjean Bakaletz, and Marc Meola. New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference, April 24, 2017, Atlantic City, NJ.

• “Resilience, Grit, and Other Lies: Academic Libraries and the Myth of Resiliency.” With Angela Galvan and Jacob Berg. ACRL Biennial Conference, March 23, 2017, Baltimore, MD.

• “Asking, Listening, and Observing: Learning About Student Research through Ethnography.” With Natasha Tomlin and Kimberly Mullins. ACRL Biennial Conference, March 24, 2017, Baltimore, MD.

• “Charting the Unknown through Qualitative Research: Becoming a Practitioner-Researcher.” With Frans Albarillo, Lee Ann Fullington, and Brandon West. ACRL Biennial Conference, March 24, 2017, Baltimore, MD.

• “The Future of Librarian Labor.” With Emily Drabinski. ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 21, 2017, Atlanta, GA.

• “Living to Tell the Tale: Librarians and an Archivist Come Clean About Their Original Research Projects.” With Lee Ann Fullington, Frans Albarillo, and Elizabeth Surles. Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Annual Conference, January 11, 2017.

• “Resistant Spectatorship and Critical Information Literacy: Strategies for Oppositional Readings.” Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) Triennial Conference, June 28, 2016, Uppsala, Sweden.

• “Asking, Listening, Observing: Learning about Student Research and Study Behaviors Through an Ethnographic Investigation.” With Natasha Tomlin and Kimberly Mullins. Poster presentation, ALA Annual Conference, June 25, 2016, Orlando, FL.

• “Reference as a Site for Social Justice: A Discussion on Possibilities and Practicalities [handout].” With Kate Adler and Ian Beilin. Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee of CUNY (LILAC) Annual Training, June 10, 2016, New York, NY.

• “The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy in Library Instruction.” LOEX Annual Conference, May 6, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA.

• “Teaching and Un-Teaching Authority in the Critical Library Classroom.” With Katelyn Angell. Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), March 22, 2016, Dublin, Ireland.

• “What Actually Happens: An Ethnographic Investigation of Student Library Use.” With Natalia Tomlin and Kimberly Mullins. LILAC, March 21, 2016, Dublin, Ireland.

• “Critical Source Evaluation: Teaching Students to Rethink Authority in the First Year and Beyond.” With Katelyn Angell. METRO Annual Conference, January 21, 2016, New York, NY.

• “Building Your Methods Toolkit: Research Design for Information Professionals.” With Frans Albarillo, Lee Ann Fullington, Brandon West, and Elizabeth Surles. METRO Annual Conference, January 21, 2016, New York, NY.

• “Critical Information Literacy as Collaborative Praxis.” With Karen Nicholson, Jessica Critten, and Ryan Randall. Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, May 21, 2015, Riverside, CA.

• “Elevating Source Evaluation: Teaching and Un-Teaching Authority in the Critical Library Classroom.” With Katelyn Angell. LOEX Annual Conference, May 2, 2015, Denver, CO.

• “Measuring Our Information Literacy Footprint: Assessing Games-Based Learning in Library Instruction.” With Katelyn Angell. ACRL Biennial Conference, March 26, 2015, Portland, OR.

• “The Amazing Library Race: Brewing Active Learning in Library Orientations.” With Katy Boss and Katelyn Angell. Poster presentation, ACRL Biennial Conference, March 27, 2015, Portland, OR.

• “A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of using Popular Media to Teach Information Literacy Concepts.” Poster presentation, Library Assessment Biennial Conference, August 4, 2014, Seattle, WA.

• “They’re Fun, But Are They Sustainable? Assessing Games-Based Learning in Library Instruction.” With Katelyn Angell. Library Instruction West Biennial Conference, July 25, 2014, Portland, OR.

• “Ask Not What Your Profession Can Do For You? Surveying Art Librarian Career Paths and Attitudes.” Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference, May 3, 2014, Washington, DC.

• “The Amazing Library Race: Using Problem-Based Learning in Library Orientations.” With Katelyn Angell and Katy Boss. LILAC, April 23, 2014, Sheffield, England.

• “Using Television in the Classroom to Enable Critical Information Literacy.” Library Association of the City of New York (LACUNY) Annual Institute, April 4, 2014, New York, NY.

• “‘Punk Ass Book Jockeys’: Library Anxiety in Community and Parks & Recreation.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference, March 29, 2013, Washington, DC.

• “Preparing Patrons of the Future: A Library Instruction Program for High School Students.” With Katelyn Angell. State Universities of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) Annual Conference, June 7, 2012, New York, NY.

• “What Art Students Value About the Library Experience.” Poster presentation, ACRL Biennial Conference, April 1, 2011, Philadelphia, PA.