Librarianship

I bring my background in poetry writing to instruction and librarianship, creative energy that allows me to design engaging, informed, and user-friendly curriculum. I believe in working with students’ innate curiosity and use backward design, universal design for learning (UDL), the philosophy of critical librarianship, and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy to make lesson plans to meet all students where they learn. I deeply love my job.

Award

• James E. Ward Instruction Award – Tennessee Library Association, 2018

Conference Presentations

• NEDtalks: Lightning Talks in the Library/ with Brannen Varner
  • Tennessee Library Association Conference, 2018
• Making It Work Online: Collaborating to Create an Online Information Literacy Portal / with Brannen Varner
  • Tennessee Library Association Conference, 2018
• Use Your Words: Thing-Explaining Library Lingo / with Brannen Varner
  • The Collective, 2018
• Looking for the Picture in the Frame: The ACRL Framework in Practical Library Instruction / with Sylvia Page and Becca Decker
  • Tennessee Library Association Conference, 2017

Other

• Library Instruction Tennessee (LIT)
  • Steering Committee member
• Book Reviews editor for Tennessee Libraries

See my LinkedIn profile here.