Service Reflection

This section lists selected service activities at various levels: department, college, local, national, and international.

Service to SLIS

• Tenure Review Committee
  • Fall 2018
• 1st Year Review Committee
  • Fall 18/Spring 19
• TLTS Search Committee
  • Chair, summer 2018
• Dean’s Fellow for Events Search Committee
  • Member, spring 2018
• SLIS Assessment Committee
  •  Chair, 2011-present
    • New Couse Evaluation Form
• Diversity & Inclusion Task Force
  • Member, 2016
    • Annual Report
• Beatley Liaison Coordinator Search Committee
  • Fall, 2016
• 407 Lead Instructor
  • 407 Standardized Syllabus
  • Mentor 407 adjuncts
• 401 Revision Task Force
  • Coordinator, AY 14/15
• 403/404/4XX Development Task Force
  • Member, 2016
• Capstone Review Committee
  • Member, 2016
• Online Education Committee
  •  Member, 2011-2015
• Curriculum Committee
  •  Member, 2011;  Chair, 2012
• Core Curriculum Committee,
  • Member, 2012-2013
• Capstone Committee
  • Chair, 2012-2013
• Core Implementation Committee
  • Member, 2013
• Dean Search Committee
  • Member, Spring 2012
• Faculty Search Committee
  • Member, AY 2011-2012
• Committee on Comittees
  • Member, 2013
• Allen Smith Visiting Scholar Committee
  • Member, 2012; Coordinator, 2015
    • Simmons Voice story on Allen Smith presentation
• Mentor to new faculty member; AY 2012/2013

Service to Simmons

• CET Advisory Committee
  • Member, 2016-2019
• Green College/COCIS Thought Partners
  • Co-Coordinator, 2017
• Governance & Culture Committee
  • Member, 2017-2018
• Beatley Library Liaison Search Committee
  • Fall 2017
• All Simmons Assessment Committee
  • Member, 2012-present
• NEASC Credit hour   review working group
  • Member, AY 2013/2014
• ASAC Learning Outcomes Sub-Committee
  • Member, AY 2013/2014
• Library Advisory Board
  • Member, 2011-2013

Service to the Profession: Local

• Somerville Public Library Board of Trustees
  • Member, 2012-present
  • Vice President, 2013-2018
    • Chair of the Communications Subcommittee, 2014-present
    • Sample Products: Letters to City Administrators, Communications Subcommittee Report, Creation and Maintenance of Trustees Facebook Page.
• Friends of the Roslindale Library
  • Consultant, branch renovations and community outreach, 2016
• Boston Public Library
  • Consultant, Union Negotiations, 2015

Service to the Profession: National

• IMLS Grant Proposals
  • Reviewer, 2018
• Credo Advisory Board
  • Member, 2015- present
• Publications
  • Editorial Board Member, 2015-present
• Library and Information Science Research
  • Editorial Board Member, 2016-present
• ACRL/IS Best Practices Committee
  • Member, 2015-2017
• Beta Phi Mu,
  • Executive Board Member, AY16/17, AY17/18
• iConference
  • Reviewer, 2018
  • Reviewer, 2016
  • Reviewer, 2015
• ALISE
  • Doctoral Poster Competition Judge, 2015
• ALISE/Teller’s Committee
  • Member, 2013
• ACRL IS Management & Leadership Committee
  • Member, 2012-2014
    • Final Report for ALA Conference

Occasional Peer Reviewer for Scholarly Journals, including:

• The Journal of Academic Librarianship
• LISR
• JELIS
• Studies in Higher Education
• International Journal of Library and Information Science
• The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science
• International Information & Library Review

Manuscript Reviewer for:

• MIT Press, 2018
• Emerald publishing, 2018
• Rowman & Littlefield, 2014
• MIT Press, 2014

Service to the Profession: International

• ECIL Program Committee
  • Member, 2013-present
• Information Management in a Changing World Program Committee
  • Member, 2013 & 2014