The HEAL-WA team aims to increase the use of their portal by clinical care providers, meeting their mission to “provide evidence-based information to support patient care.” I created a Care Provider Toolkit to increase access to databases and journals useful to clinicians. The toolkit's clear and easy-to-use design encourages the use of these resources. With reliable access to evidence-based information clinical care providers can provide quality care to patients. Providing evidence-based resources at no additional cost creates options for healthcare workers who may otherwise be limited in their ability to use these resources due to the high cost of access.

Digital Public Library of America, a repository with ~50 million digital items, is no longer creating educational resources out of its items. OER Commons is an open-source platform for creating and promoting educational resources. We aimed to migrate DPLA content to OER Commons. We determined that OER Commons is a usable alternative for DPLA resource sets. Issues such as copyright, link rot, and different organizational structures make the migration more difficult. However, the value of the DPLA items remains and they can be better accessed when uploaded to OER Commons.

As the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department (CUPD) prepared to recognize its seventy-five years of service, the CUPD Legacy Project was organized to facilitate the creation of a formalized collection of memorabilia and the processes necessary to maintain the collection. Additionally, to both honor their accomplishments and preserve their knowledge, past and present CUPD members were invited to participate in the creation of an oral history collection. The establishment of the CUPD Legacy Collection will facilitate access to and preservation of department history and encourage past and present members to share their knowledge through stories.

Technology lending programs in academic libraries are vital for improving resource accessibility for students and faculty. This capstone project focuses on enhancing the Technology Lending Program at UC Santa Barbara’s library through research-based solutions. A comprehensive set of recommendations was developed by conducting surveys, literature reviews, and gathering staff input. These recommendations target Access, Policies, Sustainability, Marketing/Awareness, and Collaboration to optimize the Tech Lending Program. The aim is to tailor the program to better align with the specific needs of UC Santa Barbara library users, fostering a more efficient and user-centric lending experience.

The “Digital Archive Enhancement Project" addresses inefficiencies in document management and accessibility. Focusing on importing Weekly Dirt newsletters from MailChimp to the UW Farm website and migrating files from Google Drive to OneDrive, the project aims to enhance data organization and archival processes. Results include the successful establishment of a stable link for the Weekly Dirt newsletters, improved accessibility for historical documents, and streamlined document management procedures. By facilitating easier access to valuable historical resources, the project makes a significant difference in the lives of UW Farm stakeholders, researchers, and the wider community, fostering increased engagement and knowledge dissemination.

The impacts of accelerating technological and social change influence all aspects of present life. New professional disciplines have emerged over the past decade addressing online-offline crises at the intersection of digital information and social conflict & violence. This project is a field report elaborating a unique professional role drawn from my personal professional experiences and library and information science skills. Digital crisis librarianship helps people and organizations find and make sense of information about extreme and harmful subjects in a fractured and adversarial information environment. Digital crisis librarians provide information services for researchers, policy-makers, trust & safety professionals, and more.

EarthLab wants to capture where and how they and their member organizations have been engaged in transdisciplinary research, community engagement and capacity building. Our team participated in its development of a network snapshot utilizing a variety of geographic, program and other related data. The result is an non-western and community-informed data visualization. We make a difference by honoring tribal and indigenous sovereignty, data accessibility and the notion that data is more than information but represents real people, experiences and places. This project facilitates EarthLab strategic priority to activate, leverage and sustain a web of cross-boundary networks, relationships and resources.

WTBBL ran the Evergreen Radio Reading Service (ERRS) from 1973 to 2011 for the blind and print disabled, with hundreds of media in the collection in danger of being lost due to general obsolescence and material degradation. In this phase of preservation, our team created an inventory of all 2,497 items. This helps understand the content in the collection, and the digital preservation project presents a storage solution for physical assets to ensure long-term access. This is the first step to digitally preserving a significant part of history of WTBBL, independent radio, and the print-disabled community in the Pacific Northwest.

I developed a seminar that teaches undergraduate students, specifically English majors, about a newer form of cataloging in a way that negates the need for any prior knowledge about cataloging. My seminar takes a look at the folksonomy created and maintained in the popular fanfiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) and how it is different from other forms of cataloging. I do this in part by emphasizing the difference between folksonomies and taxonomies and by comparing the AO3 folksonomy to the library of congress subject headings (LCSH). This seminar is able to be taught anywhere at any time.

This project focuses on establishing a partnership between Nellie Muir Elementary School and the Woodburn Public Library. Through the initiative titled "Bigfoot into Spring," a carefully designed Spring reading program is implemented with the goal of boosting participation rates and strengthening the connection between elementary students and the public library. This initiative addresses the challenge faced by the public library in effectively engaging with families of young children.