I am a seasoned marketing and communications professional and communication scholar with master’s degrees in library and information science and in communication studies and a PhD in Communication.
I bring my creative savvy to award-winning marketing campaigns like “Information Is Our Game,” which brought home an inaugural “ARLie” from the Association of Research Libraries for “Librarians Being Awesome,” a PrXchange award for the overall campaign, and, finally, the prestigious John Cotton Dana Award from the American Library Association. The campaign’s impact has gone beyond just winning awards, as it is featured as an exemplar of library marketing in Libraries in the Information Age by Denise K. Fourie and Nancy E. Loe, and Marketing Your Library: A Simplified Approach by Mark Aaron Polger.
My dissertation is an historical analysis of libraries and the broader system of scholarly communication and publishing. I argue that practices of publishing in academia are grounded in tradition that blinds scholars from both dangers of and opportunities in a digital era of scholarship. Using a post-industrial Information Society thesis as a backdrop, I trace the response of librarianship to modernization throughout history, changing organizational and technical roles for libraries, and changes in publishing structures inside and outside academia that support the broader academic enterprise. Broadly speaking, my research is focused on the changing nature of media dissemination through technology.
I serve as Editor of the Reflections book series, which brings scholars, students and community members together in conversation around a particular topic. The series currently consists of two books: Toward Justice, Reflections on A Lesson Before Dying, and From the Remains, Reflections on Station Eleven. This book series is part of an effort on my part not just to write and talk about, but to demonstrate the power of new ventures in publishing through libraries.