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Five minute lightning talks
Part of the Libraries and Archives in the Anthropocene:
A Colloquium, 2017
Presenter Info
Carla Leitao
Carla Leitão, Architect (PT, Europe) Architect, designer and writer, lives/works in New York, USA and Lisbon, Portugal. Co-founder of Umasideia in Lisbon, PT and AUM Studio in NY, with Ed Keller.
Presentation title: “Foundation Landscapes of Massive Oblivion”
Wendy Highby
Wendy Highby is the Social Sciences Librarian at Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley, Colorado. She is a co-founder of Weld Air and Water, a grassroots environmental group, and is working to increase the civic capacity of her community and reduce its carbon footprint.
Presentation title: “The Tesseract, The Tesla, and the Anti-Reflexivity Thesis: How Librarians Can Save the World”
William Denton
William Denton is an associate librarian at York University in Toronto. His work is mostly on scholarly analytics (analyzing data about the users and usage of the library’s services and collections to help understand who uses what when and how much) and his research is mostly at the intersection of libraries and art.
Presentation title: “GHG.EARTH”
Andréa Atkins
Andréa Atkins has received MAs in Slavic Studies and Public Policy Management from Ohio State, and has an MLIS from the University of Kentucky. She has diverse library experience in several types of libraries and is interested in information policy, international librarianship, and knowledge organization.
Presentation title: “ibraries and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union”
Beth Filar Williams
Beth Filar Williams is currently serving as Head of the Library Experience and Access Department at Oregon State University Libraries and Press, Beth has been a longtime advocate for sustainability in libraries: through presentations, writing articles, blogging/tweeting at greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com, and especially helping initiate the ALA Sustainability Round Table in 2014.
Presentation title: “Integrating Sustainability into the Daily Work Practices: Lessons Learned as a Manager”
Evi Klett
Evi Klett is a “Books and Borrowing” librarian at the Denver Public Library. She is also a member of the Denver Permaculture Guild and identifies as an environmental and social justice activist.
Presentation title: “Supporting Regenerative Practices in Denver: Programming and Networking at DPL”
Sarah Burke Cahalan
Sarah Burke Cahalan is the Director of the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, the world’s largest collection of printed materials on the Virgin Mary. She oversees operations and services, including collection development, reference, outreach, preservation, and access.
Presentation title: “Libraries and Laudato Si”
Amanda Avery
Amanda Avery is an Outreach and Assessment Librarian and Assistant Professor at Marywood University Library, in Scranton Pennsylvania. She maintains her library’s very low-tech seed library and gardening book collection, making sure all varieties of watermelons are up to date in the online catalog.
Presentation title: “Our Dark Materials: A Steampunk Future for Libraries?”