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.
3. 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)
4. 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
5. About Me:
Quirks!
Cat Lady
Why I chose library school
Tumblarian
Community andVolunteering
Traveling
Zines
Old Movies
“artsy”
Food
Personality Indicators:Virgo, INFJ, Green
7. ARL 2014
cohort
Career Enhancement Program
Symposium in Philadelphia in January
Presentations
Networking
Discussions
Swag
Snow!!
Cohorts
Webinars
Job Postings
Travel Scholarships
8. 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
14. 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
23. 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 ScholComm
Many pictures of cacti
24. 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?