New Librarians Symposium

2018 Lightning Talk Presenters

Carli currently works at the University of Guelph, on the E-Learning and Reserves team as a Library Assistant. In this role, she works with faculty and other campus stakeholders on developing and providing access to course reserves material. Outside of this role, Carli is interested in the intersections of social justice and librarianship and accessibility in the library. She completed her MLIS at Western University in 2017.

Elysha works and plays between Hamilton and St. Catharines. She completed her MLIS at Western University in 2015 and slipped immediately into the role of Learning Support Librarian at McMaster University. Since then, she’s taken a detour into new motherhood and is now employed at St. Catharines Public Library as an Adult Information Services Librarian. Elysha heads up volunteer management with gritLIT: Hamilton’s Readers and Writers Festival and spends her free time knitting and sewing.

Lindsay is an Interim Business Librarian at Humber’s North Campus. She supports students and faculty in the Business School through research help, collection development and providing information literacy and instruction. Lindsay completed her MLIS at the University of Western Ontario in 2016.

Durrell has a PhD in Musicology (UCLA, 2003), a Certificate in Computer Applications Development (Conestoga College, 2010) and a Master of Library and Information Science (Western University, 2018). For about a decade, he developed and taught music history courses as an adjunct or visiting instructor at seven institutions across North America. He has also worked as a semi-professional choral singer, built websites, and presented numerous conference papers and invited talks. In addition, he has written books, book chapters, journal articles, media and book reviews, reference entries, and program notes. His books are: Experiencing Peter Gabriel: A Listener’s Companion (2016), Experiencing Rush: A Listener’s Companion (2014), and Rush and Philosophy: Heart and Mind United (2011). Durrell is still trying to figure out how to combine Musicology, Information Technology, and Library & Information Science, and you can find out more about him by checking out his website.

Aaron is an Assistant Archivist for the Central Ontario Conferences at the United Church of Canada Archives. He spends his days arranging local church records, digitizing photographs, and trying not to argue with genealogists. Prior to completing his MI at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, Aaron worked for several years as the Collections Specialist at the Internet Archive Canada. When not thinking about archives, he enjoys photography, coffee and donuts, and staring into space. He can occasionally be found tweet yelling at clouds as @drmisteraaron.

Melanie spends most of her time teaching information literacy sessions and talking about teaching information literacy sessions. In her free time Melanie enjoys cats, Broadway musicals, and serving sass. Talk to her about any of this by finding her on twitter at @BooksCassidy.

In this role, Scott fulfills liaison duties to the Faculty of Education and School of Creative Arts. Aside from his liaison duties, he is responsible for Open Education initiatives with the library, collaborating with the Office of Open Learning on campus, and acting as a contact person for questions and education on copyright. Scott’s research has focused on access to information and services for the LGBTQ+ community. Prior to becoming a librarian, he taught middle school and high school for 7 years in the province of Saskatchewan.

Heather is a graduate of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and currently works as part of the Secondary School Library Support Services team at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. In this role, she works in collaboration with a teacher-librarian to support students and faculty through a blended service model. An aspiring academic librarian, she is currently working towards a Masters of Education. Her research focuses on online pedagogy in libraries. Today she is part of a collective whose combined efforts have built the foundations for an inclusive, relaxed, and no-pressure community meant for all information professionals. You can find her on Twitter @mctavish_h. Find Librarians Who Beer over @LibrariansWB and via other social media channels.

Sarah is a tattooed information professional and tech wrangler. She wears many hats with SLA Toronto, including Technology & Communications Director, Webmaster, and Editor of the Courier newsletter. She has worked in knowledge management in the reinsurance, telecommunications, and consulting industries, and has a Master of Library and Information Science degree from Western University (in addition to a BA and MA in archaeology and some dead languages.) In addition to wearing cardigans ironically, Sarah is professionally interested in the intersections of various types of librarianship with knowledge management and always looks for opportunities to demystify and evangelize about knowledge management, technology, and information organization to anyone who will listen. Feel free to send her an email at sarah@sarahamorrison.net.

Alexandra graduated from the University of Washington’s iSchool in 2017 and left the beautiful, grey city of Seattle to become Assistant Librarian at Notre Dame de Namur University. As Assistant Librarian, she is fortunate enough to experience the many different facets academic librarianship has to offer. Every day is an adventure and she is excited to see what today brings! You can find her on Twitter @libarbarian3.

Benjamin is currently the Local History Librarian at the Burlington Public Library. Graduating in 2014 from the University of Western Ontario with an MLIS that focused on archives, he has worked as an archivist in the north before he came back to Southern Ontario in 2017. His areas of interest are history, collections development, and research support.

Lisl is the Academic Librarian at Algoma University. Her primary responsibilities revolve around managing Algoma’s Database Collection and Reference Services. She enjoys taking on special projects and discovering new ways to break Library and Librarian stereotypes. Her research goals include how to make the library a welcome space for all, diversity and equity, and accessibility. Lisl holds an MI from the University of Toronto. You can rarely find her on Twitter @LislBunhead.

Tracy has recently returned to the University of Toronto as an Engineering Librarian at the Engineering & Computer Science Library. Her days are spent on outreach coordination, instruction coordination, helping first year students learn about information literacy (and university life in general) and liaising with the Division of Engineering Sciences. She holds an MI (University of Toronto), a BSC in Zoology (University of Guelph), a MSc in Zoology (University of Guelph), and a PhD in Biology (Simon Fraser University).