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Papers & Projects

SLJ Book REVIEW, 2022

A review of the YA Norse myth–inspired fantasy The Valkyrie's Daughter by Tiana Warner.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2022

A starred review for the YA fantasy The Ivory Key by Akshaya Raman.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2022

A review of Alexandra Christo's YA fairy-tale retelling, Princess of Souls.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2022

A review of the YA historical heist novel A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar.

HOW-TO BOOK REVIEW program, 2021

A program on how to write book reviews, geared towards middle and high school students, and presented for a Westchester Library System SRC event.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2021

An Adult Books 4 Teens review of The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2021

A review of Nick McDonnell's A Council of Animals, for SLJ's Adult Books 4 Teens section.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2022

A review of the forthcoming YA horror novel Extasia by Claire Legrand.

LIBRARY COLLECTIVE ARTICLE, 2021

Meant to spark conversation among members, a short reflection on how an accidental genre study of romance novels kept me company during twelve months of isolation.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2021

A review of the forthcoming fantasy YA novel These Hollow Vows, the first in a duology by Lexi Ryan.

SLJ BOOK REVIEW, 2021

A review of the forthcoming Tell Me When You Feel Something, a YA thriller by Vicki Grant.

SLJ BOOK
REVIEW, 2021

Published in School Library Journal, a review of the forthcoming YA novel Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price.

MICROTEACHING SESSION, 2020

A 20-minute public library workshop, collaboratively designed to introduce formerly incarcerated adults to the social networking possibilities and personal privacy limitations of

Google Photos.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY, 2020

A comprehensive and holistic collection development policy for the fictional National Public Library for Games.

HEALTH LITERACY POP-UP EVENT, 2020

Completed for the Literacy & Instruction course, a pop-up/bookmobile program to teach parents & guardians about self-care for the whole family, constructed around OBPE best practices. 

THIS MACHINE KILLS COLLECTIONS, 2020

A presentation on the increasing datafication of library statistics and deaccession practices, and on librarians who have creatively fought back.

Online lesson plan, 2o2o

An online educational experience utilizing the NYPL's digital poster collections, focused on a synchronous yet teacher-free assignment for high school upperclassmen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PYTHON WEB-SCRAPING PROJECT, 2020

Completed for the Programming for Cultural Heritage course, a repository of Python scripts that seek to illustrate the parentage of Greek gods by web-scraping data from the Theoi Project.

Teen resource blog, 2020

A YA library services blog project geared towards providing a variety of multimedia resources to teens interested in learning about ancient civilizations.

DIGITAL RESOURCES BLOG POST, 2020

Part of an outreach push for PIL's online collection development task force, a lighthearted but practical guide to unexpected digital resources available from the libraries, aimed at incoming and returning students, hosted on the libraries' blog.

Layoverland

Book talk, 2020

A book talk of Layoverland by Gabby Noone (2020), scripted for  a middle & high school audience.

YA SERIES PROFILE, 2020

An overview of the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer, with an eye towards RA and collection development.

PET

Book talk, 2020

A book talk of Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (2019), geared towards reluctant readers in a high school setting.

METKIDS & THE EXPLORATORIUM, 2020

A compare-contrast reflection on the response of two cultural institutions to the switch to a digital experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on educational usability and student-user friendliness.

DARE REVIEW, 2019

An in-depth review of the Dictionary of American Regional English digital database, examining its usability, biases, and other features.

Lesson plan, 2019

Paired with an in-person demo, a lesson plan for instruction of the Pratt library catalog for incoming freshmen of the Game Design & Interactive Media AOS program.

Book REVIEW, 2020

A critical exercise and look back at one of this reader's favorite YA books, Fire by Kristin Cashore (2009).

academic library pathfinder, 2020

A tri-fold pathfinder for incoming freshmen, exploring the non-research collections offered by the Pratt Institute Libraries.

B.A. Thesis, 2015

A conversational exploration of the history of the cult of Jane Austen fans,

and how the Internet offers the best medium for adaptations of her works.

COMPARING VIDEO GAME METADATA, 2019

A brief run-down of the recent projects working to create metadata standards for video games.

CURIOSITY CABINETS, 2019

An overview of how curiosity cabinets came to be, and what their origins and their decline can teach us about the modern reconvergence of LAM institutions.

BOOKPLATES EXHIBITION PROPOSAL, 2019

A small web-based exhibit proposal, incorporating materials from the Pratt Libraries' Special Collections and Rare Books departments.

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