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EXPERIENCE University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI Electronic Resources Management Librarian May 2019—Present • Maintains the electronic resources lifecycle through order and access management • Reviews and negotiates license agreement with publishers/vendors to reach favorable pricing and licensing terms • Analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves issues related to electronic resources • Serves on libraries’ ADA Accessibility Steering Committee and Diversity Resident subcommittee University of Wisconsin-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County Baraboo, WI Associate Academic Librarian August 2017—May 2019 • Fostering information literacy • Increasing diversity efforts as chair of Diversity Committee and advisor to student club • Supervising assistant and student staff Mortenson Center Champaign, IL Graduate Assistant August 2016—August 2017 • Supporting the center’s international library initiatives Amnet Urbana, IL Editorial Project Manager/Acquisitions Coordinator August 2013—July 2016 • Ensuring excellent editorial quality by checking for style, consistency, and accuracy Normal Public Library Normal, IL Librarian’s Assistant June 2008—July 2013 • Answering patron’s questions and requests American Library Association Chicago, IL Booklist Magazine Intern May 2012—July 2012 • Maintaining rejected bibliographic galley data on spreadsheets and online database EDUCATION University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL Master’s of Library and Information Science August 2017 Illinois State University Normal, IL Bachelor’s of Arts, English; Concentration: Publishing May 2013 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) August 2017—Present Communications Committee; Equity & Inclusion Committee Recipient of Academic Staff Academic Professional Development Grant to attend Charleston Conference 2020 University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Continuing Education Unit Introduction to Electronic Resource Licensing November 2019 CopyrightX Certificate (Harvard Law School) June 2018 Wisconsin Library Association Leadership Development Institute August 2018 PUBLICATIONS Serials Review’s “Serials Spoken Here” Columnist Editor January 2018—Present 2020. “Baraboo Reads.” Journal of New Librarianship, 5, pp. 78-86. 2019. “Book Review: Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature.” The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, University of Toronto Libraries, Vol.3(1). 2018. “Information Services for Indigenous Communities.” The Librarian Parlor, Blog. 2017. “The Importance of Translated Literature in Libraries.” Library and Book Trade Almanac, Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. CONFERENCES ATTENDED American Library Association Annual 2017 (member since 2017) Wisconsin Association of Academic Libraries Conference 2018 (not a member) NASIG 2018 (member since 2017) Wisconsin Indian Education Association Conference 2019 NASIG 2019 Electronic Resources Minnesota Conference 2019 NASIG 2020 Kraemer Copyright Conference 2020 Library Publishing Forum 2020 Charleston Conference 2020 Accessible Learning Conference 2020 I am thrilled at the opportunity to continue my service to NASIG in an impactful role as Member-at-Large. In the 3.5 years I’ve been a NASIG member, NASIG has provided a critical space for me to build connections, expand my interests, and thrive professionally. It’s been important to me to have resources like NASIG, outside of my academic institutions, as an aid and as a means of being a more ambitious, responsive, and connected librarian. NASIG is more than a tool for the individual professional; it provides a space for publishers, vendors, and librarians to collaborate, particularly in ever-changing and developing areas like open access, data management, and privacy. Information professionals must be cognizant of how organizational and institutional efforts in the past have succeeded or failed, and for whom. This work does not take place in a vacuum. With the spread of COVID-19 and academic institutions relying on virtual instruction and electronic resources, libraries and information professionals are realizing now more than ever that online environments aren’t always accommodating or easily accessible to patrons’ varying abilities. Not only is there an increased need to share knowledge and skills in the areas of collection development, scholarly communications, licensing, and assessment of resources to ensure products and libraries are legally compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, but all parties consider all of the barriers and needs patrons might have in terms of using various sensory skills. This is also important for patrons who do not yet recognize a neurodivergency within themselves, as many disabilities aren’t easily diagnosable and manifest in different ways in different stages of life. I anticipate being able to contribute to projects and initiatives in this area at NASIG, in part through my participation in the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Library Accessibility Group. I also serve on the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries’ ADA Accessibility Steering Committee, acting as a bridge between more public-facing departments in the libraries and technical services and learning from other campus entities that work directly with affected patrons. I am also passionate about making sure identifiably diverse individuals are not only present in scholarly communications and technical services but are actively involved, and that their contributions, especially when it comes to dismantling systemic racism, are acted on. Serving on my campus’s Diversity Resident Subcommittee and working to educate the libraries about the residency, as well as supporting resident librarians and their supervisors, has increased my awareness about how best intentions sometimes fail but also enable opportunities to identify means of growth. Serving on NASIG’s Equity and Diversity committee and participating in the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) has helped me recognize partnerships and projects that can assist organizations and individuals to be more intentionally inclusive. It’s not just the content that needs to be diverse and representative, but the ways in which knowledge is published, sought, acquired, and shared that are taking place in an increasingly globalized marketplace, which call for increasingly critical, global, and diverse reflection and assessment. I’m looking forward to serving as Member-at-Large for NASIG to harness NASIG’s strengths and help information fields navigate difficult times and continue to advance and transform. .