Select List of Conference Papers, Presentations & Professional Activities

Featured invited guest panel presentation, “Graphic Novels: They Are Real Books!” (with Raina Telgemeier, Chris Couch, and Ralph Guiteau) Long Island Libraries Pop Culture Conference (LIPopCon), Oakdale, New York, 04/16/2015

Panel presentation, “On Campus, Online, Off Hours: Librarian Strategies that Sustain Graduate Student Scholarship and Discourse,” peer reviewed, Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Portland, Oregon 03/25/2015-03/28/2015

Session co-organizer, “Labor Solidarity in a Right-to-Work State” with Jennifer Dorning, J.D. (sponsored by the AFL-CIO-ALA Joint Committee on Library Services to Labor Groups (Committee Co-Chair), ALA Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 06/30/2014

Presentation, “Reading Beyond the Panels: Social Justice and Graphic Novels,” full-session workshop, Long Island Libraries Pop Culture Conference (LIPopCon), Oakdale, New York, 04/16/2015

Presentation, “What Do You Use for Mapping? Map Warper,” as part of the How-To Tech Workshop Series, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY03/16/2015

Presentation, “What is Digital Pedagogy?,” as part of the Digital Humanities Series, with Prof. Jen Travis, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY 03/09/2015

Presentation, “Creating a Template In WordPress,” as part of the Digital Humanities Series, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY10/22/2014

Presentation, “Introduction to Using WordPress for Digital Humanities,” as part of the Digital Humanities Series, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY10/02/2014

Presentation, “Digging into the Digital Humanities: A Guide to Evaluating a Digital Humanities Project,” as part of the CTL Summer Technology Exploration Series, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY 06/19/2014

Presentation, “Lessons from the Field: Developing Library Support Services for Student Veterans” St. John’s University Division of Library and Information Science Spring Symposium 04/05/2014

Panelist, “Navigating the Successful Tenure Process – New York City Librarians Discuss,” Archives and Library Leadership Network (ALLN) New York City 03/03/2014

Presentation, “Black and White?: Imaging Race in Graphic Novels” at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Denver, CO 05/2013

Presentation, “What’s This? – Using Hashtags and Social Media for Research and Professional Networking” Gina Marandino), St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY 04/28/2013

Program co-organizer and panel co-moderator, “Preserving Labor’s History: Librarians and Archivists on the Frontline” with Jennifer Dorning, J.D. (sponsored by the AFL-CIO-ALA Joint Committee on Library Services to Labor Groups (Committee Co-Chair), ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 06/29/2013

Presentation, “Engaging the Past: Teaching New York History to College Freshmen through Comics and Graphic Novels, at the Researching New York State History Conference, Albany, NY 11/15/2012

Presentation, “When Reading becomes Seeing: Using Graphic Novels as Catalysts for Discourse on Social Issues,” at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, Denver, CO 06/14/2012

“Librarians as Resource” at the Catholic Library Association Conference, Boston, MA 04/12/2012

Presentation and roundtable discussion, with Sophie Bell and David Farley, “Comics in the Classroom? Graphic Novels, Graphic Memoirs, and Higher Education,” for the St. John’s University Center for Teaching and Learning, Queens campus, 11/07/2011

Roundtable discussion, facilitator, “A Different Three-legged Stool: The Faculty-Librarian-Student Connection,” for the St. John’s University Center for Teaching and Learning, Queens campus, 09/27/2011

Presentation, “Reading beyond the Panels: Using Graphic Narratives to Inform a Discussion Group,” for the New England Comic Arts in the Classroom Conference, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, 03/26/2011

Roundtable discussion, with Kathryn Shaughnessy, “Research Partner: Beyond Liaison Librarianship.” Program Track: “Diversify our Interdependence: Building Relationships” for the ACRL 2011 Conference A Declaration of Interdependence to be held in Philadelphia, PA, 03/30/2011

Grant proposal submitted on behalf of ACRL/NY and LACUNY for the ACRL Scholarly Communication Road Show In collaboration with Prof. Kathryn Shaughnessy (St. John’s University, ACRL/NY Executive Board), Prof. Anne Leonard (CUNY City Tech  College, ACR/NY Executive Board) and Prof. Jane Fitzpatrick (CUNY Graduate Center, LACUNY Executive Board)

Panel presentation program, with Kathryn Shaughnessy, “Librarian Leaders: Engaging Students in Catholic Social Justice Teaching” for the Catholic Library Association 2011 Convention to be held in New Orleans, LA 04/26/2011-04/28/2011

Presentation, St. John’s University, Center for Teaching and Learning, Technology Research Fellows, “Getting Started with Zotero,” 10/26/2010

Presentation, St. John’s University, Center for Teaching and Learning, Technology Research Fellows’ Retreat, “Zotero 101″ 09/25/2010

Library Workers Skill Share Event, co-sponsored by the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) and the Association of College and Research Libraries/New York (ACRL/NY), “speed mentor” and resume reviewer, Brooklyn Public Library, 07/13/2010

National Library Legislative Day, Washington DC, New York State delegate, on behalf of ACRL/NY and ACRL, 06/29/2010

Mayor Bloomberg’s Commission on Women’s Issues “Mentor It Forward” program, “speed mentor,” 06/19/2010

Presentation, with Dr. Blythe Roveland-Brenton, Metropolitan Catholic College Librarians Chapter of the Catholic Library Association, “St. John’s University Libraries: A Brief History,” 04/22/2010

Presentation, “Shared Leadership, Shared Responsibility: Learning to Lead from Among,” break-out session, St. John’s University Women in Leadership Conference Finding the Power of Possibility Will Lead You to the Power of Hope, 03/20/2010

Poster session presentation, “Transforming Responsibility into Opportunity: Lessons Learned by a Legislative Advocate,” at the 2010 ACRL/NY Annual Symposium, “Emerging Leadership in Academic Libraries.” 12-04-2009

Invited participant, Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) two- day session, “Planning Our Digital Future,” 11/2/2009-11/3/2009

Paper presentation, “Where’s the Party? New York Celebrates the Opening of the Erie Canal” at the Researching New York Conference, SUNY Albany, included as part of the panel “History and Memory: Interpretation and Commemoration,” 11/18/2009-11/20/2009

Presentation, Long Island College and Academic Library Directors (LICALD) Fall Meeting Program, “Twitter in Academic Libraries???” New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Old Westbury. 10-01-2009

Panel presentation, 30^th Annual Conference on New York State History, paper presented: “Reasons to Celebrate: New York and the Opening of the Erie Canal,” SUNY Plattsburgh. 06-04-2009—06-06-2009

Keynote presentation, with Dr. Blythe Roveland-Brenton, St. John’s University Retirees Association: “The Changing Face of the Queens Library,” with a PowerPoint presentation on the history of St. John’s Queens Library, Council Hall, St. John’s University. 04-26-2009

Presentation, “Using Blogging Software to Promote Special Collections,” Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY) Archives/Special Collections Roundtable, 05-08-2008

Presentation, “Using WordPress to Build a Website and a Community to Promote the Use of Special Collections,” panel presentation and discussion as part of the Library 2.0 Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Metropolitan Library Council, 03-14-2008

Select List of Workshops, Seminars, & Tours Given

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “These Difficulties and Distresses a Thousand Times Greater: General Charles Lee and the Suppression of the Loyalists in New York and Virginia,” by Dr. Philip Papas, 05-08-2008

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “These Difficulties and Distresses a Thousand Times Greater: General Charles Lee and the Suppression of the Loyalists in New York and Virginia,” by Dr. Philip Papas, 04-11-2008

New York Metropolitan Library Council (METRO) Library 2.0 Special Interest Group (SIG), “Using Wordpess to Build a Website and a Community to Promote the Use of Special Collections,” at METRO Training Center, 03-14-2008.

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “In Defense of the Jews: Leipzig Theologians and the Early Enlightenment,” by Dr. Raymond Erickson, 03-28-2008

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “The Crisis of Cosmopolitanism: Vico and the Making of Social Science,” by Dr. Barbara Naddeo, 02-07-2008

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Out to Eat: The Emergence and Evolution of the Restaurant in Nineteenth-Century New York City,” by Dr. Cindy Lobel, 11-02-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Wake of Enlightenment: Meldelssohn, Judah Ben Ze’ev, and the Rhetoric of Religion,” by Dr. David Richter, 09-28-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Mapping Rebellion: Montresor and his Map,” by Dr. Angelo Angelis and Dr. Philip Papas, 05-04-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Reading about Africa in the Early Republic,” by Dr. Jonathan Sassi, 04-20-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Order and Authority in New Netherland: Or, was Peter Stuyvesant really such a bad guy?” by Dr. Simon Middleton, 03-26-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “General Charles Lee: Soldier, Radical, Scholar,” by Dr. Philip Papas,03-16-2007

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “Voltaire’s Library in Russia,” by Dr. Inna Gorbatov, 10-27-2006

Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, Guest Speaker Series, “’When they come here they feal so free’: Liberia and the Equivocal Freedom of Return,” by Dr. David Kazanjian, 10-20-2006

Organize and host of the New York Public Library Librarian Retiree Association’s group visit to the Eighteenth-Century Reading, July 2007

Organize and host of the New York City Teachers Retiree Association’s group visit to the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room, spring 2006

“A Visit to the Eighteenth-Century,” a free and public presentation and discussion with approximately fifteen people in attendance, two times per semester through The CUNY Graduate Center Continuing Education Program, on print culture of the eighteenth-century, using books, political pamphlets, maps, broadsides and documents, 2004-2005

“Doors Wide Open” public tour and overview of the Eighteenth-Century Reading Room collection, as part of a free tour of the historic B. Altman building, now home of The Graduate Center, sponsored by The CUNY Graduate Center Continuing Education Program, given six times per year, 2002-2005

All-day Book Preservation Workshop for the Catholic Archdiocese of New York Library Connections Program, 2004