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My presentation on my ARL internship at the University of Arizona Libraries. I am a Association of Research Libraries fellow and this is my experience. This was presented to various UA Library staff to give them more informaiton about me and what I did during my time there.
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Get to know me
About Me: Past
Born and Raised in Jacksonville
Undergraduate experience: University of Central Florida in Orlando Creative Writing, Journalism, Women’s Studies Orange County Library System (Public)
About Me: Present
LIS student at Florida State University (Not UF) Scholarly Communications Social Media Management & Marketing Indexing FSU Digital Library metadata updates DOR committee
President of the ALA student chapter at FSU
Treasurer of the Black Graduate Student Association chapter FSU
2014 ALA Spectrum Scholar
About Me: Quirks!
Cat Lady
Why I chose library school
Tumblarian
Community and Volunteering
Traveling
Zines
Old Movies
“artsy”
Food
Personality Indicators: Virgo, INFJ, Green
ARL CEP Internship
ARL 2014 cohort
Career Enhancement Program
Symposium in Philadelphia in January Presentations Networking Discussions Swag Snow!!
Cohorts
Webinars
Job Postings
Travel Scholarships
My internship
User Experience Projects:
Course Guides & LibGuides
Usability prototyping & testing
Guide on the Side UX Content Personas
Mentoring Guidance on research
methods Career & job search
advice
CEP Study Plan Meetings with Librarians
in various departments Reading & Webinars
Libguides
CourseGuides
Guide on the Side
Impressions of University of Arizona Libraries
MEETINGS!
Forward-thinking
Frequent Bells
Receptive to new ideas (space, suggestions, etc.)
Understand importance of work-life balance
Big, multiple libraries
Project management & professional organization
Cool stuff: Expresso books, press, wepa printing, authors
Learning new things
Usability
Project Management Tools & procedures
Information resource management
Reference
Assessment
Instruction
Research Library as Work Environment
Governance
Committee work & Scholarship
Classes
Summer Classes: Information Policy Digital Libraries
Decided to take a Research class in the fall
Not hands-on
No need to take Usability class
Exploring & Fun
Getting to know Tucson
Hot Summer
Road Trips!
ALALas Vegas2014
Mom Visits
Los Angeles
The Future
Taking things back to FSU
People don’t know much about our iSchool
Diversity initiatives
More active engagement, more participation
University Press of Florida collaboration FSU Schol Comm
Many pictures of cacti
Goals
Short-term Multicultural Information Exchange (MIX) A better ALA chapter for distance students Posters, research, publishing Conferences– ACRL, ALA 2015, etc.
Long-term Graduating! Finding an amazing job Study abroad somehow?
Q&A
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Ask Away!