Education
SIMMONS COLLEGE, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, MA.
MS, Library and Information Science.
TUFTS UNIVERSITY, Medford, MA.
MA, Classics.
HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE, Claremont, CA.
BS, Mathematics.
Selected Experience
MEMBER OF FOUNDING TEAM
Gluejar. May 2011 ~ present.
LIBRARY CONSULTANT
The Fessenden School, West Newton, MA. 2010 ~ 2011.
LIBRARY INTERN
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA. 2009.
LATIN TEACHER
The Fessenden School, West Newton, MA. 2003 ~ 2008.
SCHEDULER
The Fessenden School, West Newton, MA. 2006 ~ 2008; 2011.
LATIN TEACHER
The Steppingstone Foundation, Boston, MA. Summer 2005.
Presentations, Publications, & Code
Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services. ALA TechSource, January 2012.
@jaguarbot, a Twitter bot based on my 2011 Emerging Leader project (github)
“Real-Life Strategies for Successful Library Job Hunting”, ALA Editions webinar with Tiffany Mair. (recap and archive)
Presentation on Gluejar to Mary Minow’s LIBR 281-03/LIBR 281-12
Seminar in Contemporary Issues: Digital Copyright class at SJSU, November 1, 2011. (slides)
“Give Books to the World”, ACRL CDIG’s E-books: A Brief Fix on a Moving Target, October 28, 2011.
“Personal Branding” (slides), Simmons GSLIS, October 27, 2011.
“Talk About: Publishers, Distributors & the Future of Ebooks” (panel discussion), Internet Librarian, October 19, 2011.
Presentation on Gluejar to Google (Cambridge office), October 7, 2011.
“There is no spoon” (invited keynote), ACPL Library Camp, September 16, 2011. (slides)
Librarians’ Perceptions of Automation Systems: Survey Results 2007-2010. Marshall Breeding and Andromeda Yelton. ALA TechSource, May/June 2011.
“How to Build Five Libraries in One Month,” TEDxPrincetonLibrary, June 1, 2011. (watch it on tedxtalks.ted.com)
“Personal Branding for New Librarians” (panel), ALA Midwinter Conference, January 8, 2011.
“A Simple Scheme for Book Classification Using Wikipedia.” Information Technology and Libraries, 30(1), March 2011. (post-refereeing draft [pdf])
ALA TechSource. Guest blogger, 2010-present. Post archive here.
“Battledecks”, ALA Midwinter Conference, January 16, 2010 and ALA Annual Conference, June 28, 2010.
“WorldCat API”, Simmons GSLIS Tech Lab Workshops, April 9, 2010
“Tagging”, Simmons GSLIS Tech Lab Workshops, February 26, 2010 and March 4, 2010
Fessenden Virtual Book Fair.
A visual bookshelf allowing patrons to browse the library’s recommended books, read reviews, and purchase them. Generates revenue for the library via an Amazon affiliate link.
DCKX: an index of science content in xkcd.
A topical index of science-related strips in the popular webcomic xkcd, designed for science professors’ use with their course materials and implemented with an SQL back end and PHP/JavaScript/CSS front end.
Honors & Awards
ALA Class of 2011 Emerging Leader
2010 LITA/Ex Libris Student Writing Award (press release)
2010 ACRL/NEC Annual Conference Scholarship for Library School Students
