Lakeside Middle School has a bustling library. The space accomplishes a lot, but it could accommodate the students better. The shelves are not easy for students to browse, and loud and quiet activities happen simultaneously in the relatively small space. Working closely with the students, I and the librarians at Lakeside redesigned the library space to accommodate these multiple uses and to allow for the organization of the books by genre. We expect to see an increase in circulation and have students happier with the space they helped design.

The Ricci Institute houses a collection of books and artifacts from China and East Asia between the 16th century to the 19th century. As a research institution, their primary focus is for scholars interested in this time period. Through this project, we realized that their presence online is only minimal at best. Teatime Treasures is a way for us to not only spread the word about this collection, but to also give the Ricci Institute an example of how they could potentially increase their digital presence, as well as showcasing their collection to a much wider and more diverse audience.

The information problem I addressed with my project was that POCLD did not have any centralized policies or guidelines for promotion of library events or social media presence. To combat this, I created social media guidelines, a brand book with logo and formatting information, and a PR Pack for quick reference on type of marketing for programs. This project will allow for each individual library in the district to take ownership of their own social media and program marketing. It will also provide consistency among POCLD's branding and communications allowing them to present a united identity to their community.

Community Engagement Inside Library Walls centers Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in community engagement in the town of Monrovia, California. This project entails a display of material within the library’s collection that covers the ethnic heritage of select demographics important to the town’s history. The collection adds more material for children, teens, and adults in e-book and e-audiobook formats in several languages as well as in bilingual formats. This is meant to create space in the library for the people of the community and to educate those wishing to learn about some of the individual cultures, languages, and communities.

“Compose A New Canon” is a report analyzing the repertoire performed by the Reno Philharmonic from 2009 to 2024, looking specifically at the representation of composers who fall outside of the traditional classical canon. This analysis includes a comparison of the Reno Phil’s programming practices with national trends identified in the Institute for Composer Diversity’s 2022 Orchestra Repertoire Report. The written report resulting from this project will be distributed to the Reno Philharmonic’s Board, staff, and musicians in the hopes of promoting discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in orchestral programming.

For this project, we developed a unique classification scheme inspired by queer and Indigenous knowledge organization for the Pan Eros Foundation’s human sexuality library collection. This process involved researching alternative classification systems, familiarizing ourselves with the materials in the collection, and identifying the values and needs of the local sex positive community. The project will continue with volunteer training on cataloging using the classification scheme and moving towards making the library collection available to the public again after years of being in storage.

The Seattle Art Museum’s Historic Media Collection (HMC) is a collection of over 3,000 digitized audiovisual materials related to the museum’s educational programs and exhibitions. Our project’s goal was to develop an initial set of subject headings for these materials. We focused this initial set on Indigenous Art because Indigenous peoples’ identities are historically underrepresented or inaccurately described in controlled vocabularies. To accompany the list, we developed a framework and guide for the museum to use in creating inclusive and representative subject descriptors for other art areas and as part of the museum’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This project is to work towards a digital archive of the manuscripts, photos and other items. There is about 700 items within the collection, the main concept is to catalog them, and recommend the best practices for the archive. This opinion will establish a framework for the organization that can be perfected in the future and give an idea of the collection at hand. One of my goals for this project is to start the conversation about access to digital archives and the differences between the funding each library has access to.

Our project, Data Forensics, is part of our sponsor’s larger Data Afterlives project. The NSF asks researchers to make federally funded data available. We researched NSF awards to see if we could find data associated with these projects. Our findings demonstrate the challenges in finding data and how the accessibility of data varies depending on the NSF research area. We discuss the steps that we took in the course of our research, as well as why this research matters, particularly to information professionals and how national policy shapes the future of open research. We offer future avenues of research.