

Strengthen community of digital scholars through outreach to departmental faculty and students, planning instructional workshops and speaker series, coordinating faculty and graduate student digital project consultation, supervision of graduate fellowship programs, and oversight of communication through newsletters, website, podcasts, video, and other social media.
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Library’s Scholars’ Lab, including supervision and evaluation of four full-time professional employees and seven student desk staff, purchasing hardware and software, and managing budget. Responsible for developing and managing the public services program, philosophy, and policies of the U.Va. Head, Outreach and Public Services, Department of Digital Research and Scholarship (Scholars’ Lab), University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 2011 – May 2013 Managed a $500,000 departmental start-up budget and responsible for ongoing annual expenditures. Developing consultation services for visual communication, data visualization, and photogrammetry. Chair a number of VCU Library task forces and other committees dedicated to service enhancement. Participate in local, state, and national initiatives related to library-based creativity. Work collaboratively with faculty colleagues in the VCU Libraries and throughout the university on media creation and maker-related initiatives and projects.

Ensure that VCU’s library system is at the center of new and evolving uses of media for course-related and research needs. Establish strategic relationships with other appropriate units at VCU and design services and instructional programs to support members of the VCU community’s scholarly and extracurricular requirements in creating, disseminating, and using all forms of media. Responsible for shaping and equipping a state-of-the-art innovative media studio at the library on Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park Campus. Head, Innovative Media, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, June 2013 – present Thesis: “‘These must have help soon or die:’ two New York relief organizations in the South, 1866-1867”ĬOLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIAīachelor of Arts, History, May 1993 Professional Experience GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA Information Needs & Services concentration Reference & Instruction specialization.

Master of Science, Library and Information Studies, April 2008 Post-baccalaureate graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems, May 2020įLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries Education Innovative Media department, Research & Learning division
