Presenter Info
Leah Morin
An Information Literacy Librarian at Michigan State University, Leah Morin (she/her) primarily provides instruction to first-year writing students. She aims to affirm the knowledge students bring with them to college and demystify the academic research experience. Her research interests revolve around incorporating the feminist ethic of care and emergent strategy concepts in teaching, topics on which she has published and presented.
Hazel McClure
Hazel McClure (she/her), Head of Liberal Arts Programs at Grand Valley State University, has extensive experience as a library liaison. Co-author and editor of Engaging Students through Campus Libraries: High-Impact Learning Models (2020, Libraries Unlimited) and co-editor of Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians (2015, ACRL Press), her scholarship has explored high-impact practices and information literacy, planning information literacy instruction with the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education in mind, collaboration with faculty, disrupting perfectionism, mindfulness in libraries, and teaching information literacy in professional writing contexts. She lives and works on the land of the People of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi.
Alyssa Berger
Alyssa Berger (she/they) is the Education and Health Studies Librarian at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia College Campus Library. They provide information literacy instruction and research support to students across a broad range of disciplines. Her research interests include non-hierarchical and peer mentorship, open pedagogy, and care work in libraries.
Carina Bixby
Carina Bixby (she/her) is the Reserves and Circulation Technician at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia College Campus Library. Her work involves providing access to course materials, maintaining the physical library collections, and advocating for accessibility and open access resources.
Heather Buchansky
Heather Buchansky (she/her) is the Head, User Services at John W. Graham Library, Trinity College in the University of Toronto. In her role, she provides library instruction, research support, and collections development for the college’s undergraduate programs. Heather earned her Master of Information from University of Toronto and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from University of Exeter. Prior to entering librarianship, Heather worked as a teacher, and a sales consultant for a university press.
Heather Bush
Heather Bush (MLA, MLIS) is an Assistant Professor, Access Services and Instruction Librarian, as well as the Behavioral Sciences (BES) Liaison at Eckerd College. She strives to help users identify, locate, evaluate, and use information they need. Her areas of research include student employment in an academic library, information literacy skills and instruction, and protecting intellectual and academic freedom. Outside the library, she enjoys gardening, spending time with her three dogs and three cats, and every fall spending Saturdays on the couch as a huge college football fan. WE ARE….PENN STATE!
Hannah Gordon
H.R. Gordon is adjunct faculty in English and Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at SUNY University at Buffalo, where she teaches writing and composition with an emphasis on critical inquiry, voice, and social justice. She is also a Ph.D. student in Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, where her research explores trauma, embodiment, and storytelling through feminist and new materialist frameworks. Beyond the classroom, she is the founder of Gordon Publishing Collective, an independent press with multiple imprints, and an experienced writer, editor, and communications professional.
Romany Craig
Romany Craig is the Information Literacy and Instruction Coordinator at the University of Lethbridge Library in Treaty 7 territory of Alberta, Canada.
Lynn Lampert
Lynn Lampert is the Coordinator of Information Literacy and Instruction at California State University Northridge. She has published and presented nationally and regionally on information literacy and library instruction trends and issues. Prior to joining the faculty at California State University Northridge, Lynn worked as an Information Specialist at California Lutheran University. Lynn received her Masters in Library and Information Science and her Masters in History from the University of California Los Angeles.
Sheila Garcia Mazari
Sheila García Mazari (she/her) is the Online Learning Librarian at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a 2016 American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and a 2019 Emerging Leader. Sheila’s research focuses on creating culturally sustaining digital learning environments and engaging with critical information literacy through a Chicanx feminist lens.
Dylan McGlothlin
Dylan McGlothlin (he/they) is the Humanities Librarian at Western Michigan University. His library research is focused on information literacy instruction and yogic philosophy. Their most recent publication is “Using Project Outcome to Assess Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Writing Courses at a Public University” in Assessment and Advocacy: Using Project Outcome for Academic Libraries. Dylan holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University and a Master of Music from Central Washington University. He is currently pursuing a M.A. in Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies at Western Michigan University.
Neah Ingram Monteiro
Librarian Neah Ingram-Monteiro (she/they) tends land and is raising children in the heart of the Salish Sea bioregion. With ancestral roots in South Asia and northwestern Europe, she is shaped by lineages of both colonization in and migration from the Global South and generations of white American settlers. Neah works as the Teaching and Learning and Community Engagement Librarian at Western Washington University. Their role includes integrating information literacy within community engagement courses and programming; supporting faculty and students’ respectful engagement with place while advancing academic literacies; and leading instruction in the map collection. Neah serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries and was a 2019 ALA Spectrum Scholar.
Amber Ovsak
Amber Ovsak is an Undergraduate Engagement Librarian at the University of Kansas Libraries. Her professional practice centers on connectedness, inclusion, and student empowerment. Drawing on experience both as a school librarian and an academic librarian, she is interested in how reflective practices and instructional collaboration can strengthen student learning and community within higher education. Outside of librarianship, Amber finds joy in baking, sharing time with family, and savoring the quiet beauty of nature.
Olivia Rossetti
Olivia Rossetti (she/her) is currently the Instruction and Community Engagement Librarian at Fitchburg State University, teaching and advocating for information literacy on campus and serving as a liaison between the Library and the greater Fitchburg community. Any remaining time she has is focused on advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging projects in the Library and campus communities. She received her MLIS from Simmons University and her MEd from Fitchburg State University.
Brian Sajecki
Bryan J. Sajecki received his MLIS in Library and Information Science from SUNY University at Buffalo in 2012 with a focus on school librarianship and education. Since 2016, he has been a part of the University at Buffalo Libraries and is currently a Social Sciences, Student Support, & Instruction Librarian there. He writes and presents on strategies for making Information Literacy instruction more accessible for undergraduates, specifically with the use of social constructivism, universal design for learning (UDL), and de-jargoning library vernacular to bridge gaps of information from high school to college. His research interests include fostering play in library instruction, critical information literacy, outreach initiatives to underserved student populations on campus, how positionality impacts bias within information search habits, and the impact of positive librarian relationship building on student retention and academic success.
Laura Smyth
Laura Dimmit Smyth (she/her) is the Fine Arts Librarian at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia College Campus Library. She provides instruction, research help, and outreach to both undergraduate and graduate students. Her research and professional interests include the development of critical AI literacy, the information-seeking practices of creative practitioners, and library programing and outreach.
Sharell Walker
Sharell Walker is an Associate Professor and Student Outreach Librarian at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. She holds an MLS from St. John’s University and an MA in English Literature from Mercy College. Her research interests include outreach programming and development, services to marginalized students, and community college learners.
Gwen Geiger Wolfe
Gwen Geiger Wolfe is a collection development STEM librarian and public health research professional, having spent the last fifteen-plus years in roles anchored in both of those fields. With deep connection to health, environment, libraries, and people, she embraces collaboration, continuous learning, creativity, and problem solving as tools to help address the information challenges in our world. When she’s not spending time learning to master the information universe, she enjoys hanging out with family, pursuing outdoor adventures, gardening, cooking, and laughing.
Kat Wyly
Kat Wyly (she/her) is a Curriculum Support Librarian at the University of Washington Seattle and previously was a Research and Instruction Librarian at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia College Campus Library. She provides information literacy instruction and supports research for students, faculty, staff, and community members. Her interests include peer mentorship and centering local current events in media literacy instruction and library programming.
12pm - 1:30pm (Eastern) 
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