From August 2013 to May 2015 I worked part-time at Smith College Libraries, and also worked on my dissertation.  Prior to my current job at Smith College, I directed the Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Delaware Library, where I worked with students to develop short- and long-term research projects and play academic matchmaker for faculty and students seeking research partners. And prior to *that,* I worked as a librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi and then American University. At both places, I taught students about the research process, developed the library's collection, and answered questions ranging from 'where's the bathroom?' to 'where would I find literacy statistics for Ghana for the past ten years?' (no kidding--that was my very first reference question on my very first day at American University Library).

While at American University, I researched copyright information for materials, helped identify and evaluate materials for digitization, and taught a class on the social history of the book, all of which eventually steered me to my current interests in the online reading process, online searching, and the impact of digitization (e.g., Google Books) on scholarly communication within the humanities, especially English literature. I'm currently inching my way toward a Ph.D. centering the role of digital thematic research collections (e.g., the Whitman Archive) in literary study, the changing nature of scholarly communication (esp. in the humanities), and how current and future humanities scholars conduct literary research.  Because I want to practice what I'm writing about, I've begun using CommentPress--courtesy of MLA Commons--for my dissertation:  http://digitaldiss.commons.mla.org/.

Location

01002

Disciplines

• Education

Affiliation

University of Delaware