Service to our profession
- American Library Association Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC)
- Member, September 2022 to June 2024
- Representative for Reference & User Services Association (RUSA).
- Managing Emerging Technologies Committee of RUSA
- Member, September 2022 to June 2023.
- Technical, Electronic, and Digital Services Interest Group (TEDSIG) of the Academic Library Association of Ohio.
- Co-chair July 2021 to June 2023.
- Code4Lib National Conference website committee
- Design team for 2022 conference November 2021 to February 2022.
- Accessibility tester and documentarian for 2021 conference November 2020-March 2021
- Creating Radical Hope: Artistic and Speculative Library Responses to Climate Change
- Planning committee and workshop volunteer. October 2021-January 2022
- Speculative Futures on Post-Pandemic Libraries
- Editorial assistant for digital project TEDSIG of ALAO. Summer 2021
- Weave: Journal of Library User Experience
- Member of advisory board for this open-access, peer-reviewed journal for library user experience practitioners published by University of Michigan Publishing. 2019-present
- Code4Lib Midwest Conference Planning Committee
- Committee member for event planning, scheduling, budgeting, and website creation/maintenance. 2018
- Tri-State College Library Cooperative
- member of board of directors September 2015 to June 2016
- Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in Higher Education
- Researcher and report contributor for this Gates Foundation-funded study. January 2015 to June 2016
- ILF Reference Division Board of Directors
- Indiana Library Federation division. 2008-2010
Professional Memberships
- American Libraries Association
- Reference & User Services Association
- Emerging Technologies Section
- Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
- Association of College & Research Libraries
- Academic Libraries Association of Ohio.
- Technical, Electronic, and Digital Services Interest Group (TEDSIG)
- Distance Learning Interest Group (DLIG)
- Promotion, Outreach, and Marketing Interest Group (PROMIG)
- Indiana Library Federation, 2003 to 2010.
Community Service
- Oxford Farmers Market, Oxford, Ohio.
- Website, social media, and online market consultant/volunteer, 2019 to present.
- Friends of the Oxford Lane Library, Oxford, Ohio
- Board of directors, 2019 to 2021.
- Buck County Free Library, Doylestown, Pa. 2016-2017
- Technology volunteer, assisting patrons weekly with technology issues.
- Technology Consultant on purchase of “creation stations” for their teen patrons — Macintosh computer systems for editing images, sound and video.
- Volunteer web services in Madison, Indiana
- Developed websites for nonprofits in southern Indiana including the Jefferson County Historical Society, the Switzerland County Public Library.
- Madison Main Street Program, Madison, Indiana
- Board member of downtown economic revitalization non-profit.
- Downtown Madison Historic District Board of Review, Madison, Indiana.
- Former member and chair of this municipal committee charged with reviewing structural and appearance changes in Historic Landmark District structures.