About me

me

I have a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in English from the University of Wisconsin that I earned in 2008, and went straight from there to earn my MLIS from the School for Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. My research interests are in health libraries and information services, social media and the impact of the new Web on libraries and information access.

My professional experience began with work at the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, and now includes information and reference services at the UBC Biomedical Branch Library at Vancouver General Hospital and managerial and curatorial responsibility for the CIHC Library, a national repository of materials dedicated to interprofessional education, collaborative practice and patient-centred care.

In 2009, I presented a paper about the CIHC Library to colleagues at the Canadian Health Libraries Association Conference in Winnipeg, and went on to complete direceted research on social media in the academic library, as well as complete MLIS coursework in health libraries and information services, cataloguing, digital libraries and library management. In December 2009, I was published with two colleagues in the Journal for the Canadian Health Libraries Association (JCHLA), and spoke as part of a panel on the use of Twitter for academic librarians at UBC. I now focus my energies on the effects of social media and library 2.0 on digital interaction, identity and collaboration, and how technological trends impact the university community, academic and medical libraries.

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