My presentation on my ARL internship at the University of Arizona Libraries. I am a Association of Research Libraries fellow and this is my experience. This was presented to various UA Library staff to give them more informaiton about me and what I did during my time there.

2. Get to know me

3. About Me:
Past
Born and Raised in Jacksonville
Undergraduate experience:
 University of Central Florida in Orlando
 Creative Writing, Journalism,Women’s Studies
 Orange County Library System (Public)

4. About Me:
Present
LIS student at Florida State University (Not UF)
 Scholarly Communications
 Social Media Management & Marketing
 Indexing
 FSU Digital Library metadata updates
 DOR committee
President of the ALA student chapter at FSU
Treasurer of the Black Graduate Student Association chapter FSU
2014 ALA Spectrum Scholar

5. About Me:
Quirks!
Cat Lady
Why I chose library school
Tumblarian
Community andVolunteering
Traveling
Zines
Old Movies
“artsy”
Food
Personality Indicators:Virgo, INFJ, Green

6. ARLCEP Internship

7. ARL 2014
cohort
Career Enhancement Program
Symposium in Philadelphia in January
 Presentations
 Networking
 Discussions
 Swag
 Snow!!
Cohorts
Webinars
Job Postings
Travel Scholarships

8. My internship
User Experience
Projects:
 Course Guides & LibGuides
 Usability prototyping &
testing
 Guide on the Side
 UX Content
 Personas
Mentoring
 Guidance on research
methods
 Career & job search advice
CEP Study Plan
 Meetings with Librarians in
various departments
 Reading &Webinars

9. Libguides

10. CourseGuides

11. Guide on the
Side

12. Impressions of
University of
Arizona
Libraries
MEETINGS!
Forward-thinking
Frequent Bells
Receptive to new ideas (space, suggestions, etc.)
Understand importance of work-life balance
Big, multiple libraries
Project management & professional organization
Cool stuff: Expresso books, press, wepa printing, authors

13. Learning new
things
Usability
Project ManagementTools & procedures
Information resource management
Reference
Assessment
Instruction
Research Library asWork Environment
Governance
Committee work & Scholarship

14. Classes
Summer Classes:
 Information Policy
 Digital Libraries
Decided to take a Research
class in the fall
 Not hands-on 
No need to take Usability
class 

15. Exploring & Fun

16. Getting to
knowTucson

17. HotSummer

18. RoadTrips!

19. ALA
LasVegas
2014

20. MomVisits

21. LosAngeles

22. The Future

23. Taking things
back to FSU
People don’t know much about our iSchool
Diversity initiatives
More active engagement, more participation
University Press of Florida collaboration FSU ScholComm
Many pictures of cacti

24. Goals
Short-term
 Multicultural Information Exchange (MIX)
 A better ALA chapter for distance students
 Posters, research, publishing
 Conferences– ACRL,ALA 2015, etc.
Long-term
 Graduating!
 Finding an amazing job
 Study abroad somehow?

25. Q&A
Ask Away!