Academic Librarian @ Columbia University
Email: bbc2129 [at] columbia [dot] edu
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Delighted to be participating in and coordinating a workshop series (see bit.ly/NECQUAL2026) as part of the newly formed Northeast Carpentries Community. In collaboration between the University at Buffalo, Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Rochester, […]
Happy to share that the recording for the Library Trends webinar, “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality,” is now available. As moderator, it was a true pleasure to see the ideas of […]
Incredibly excited to say that Library Trends 74 (3), “Data Literacy: Navigating the Shift from Hype to Reality,” is now out in the world! This issue features authors exploring the urgent need to build a […]
It was a lot of fun participating in a panel with colleagues Leah Duncan (Davidson College), Jeanine Finn (Claremont Colleges), and Kae Bara Kratcha (Columbia University). Our discussion focused on navigating the successes and challenges […]
This past February (2025), I had the wonderful opportunity to be an invited speaker for the Data Literacy in Action Webinar Series, part of the Data Literacy for Community College project (led by librarians/faculty affiliated […]
Since 2012, libraries have evolved their efforts to support data literacy—a means to empower their patrons to confidently identify, collect, evaluate, analyze, interpret, present, and protect data(sets) they encounter—following Christine L. Borgman’s observation of the […]
In late May of 2024, I traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology) & CARTO (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives) conference! IASSIST […]
It has been an honor working on the NEH-funded Sharing Stories of Community Resilience to Disasters: Designing a New Model for Collaborative Traveling Exhibits project as the co-PI with Susanne Caro (PI, New Mexico State […]
This past March 2023, I was honored to have been an invited speaker for “Librarians for Critical Digital Justice,” a webinar sponsored by the Department of Information Studies at the University College London. In this […]
Check out my new paper (written with my dear friend Dr. Matthew Sisk) that encourages academic librarians to join forces–no matter what branch/unit/”silo” you fall under in your respective organization–to champion critical data literacy and […]