Projects
Social Media Analysis for West Coast Public Libraries
Research Assistant, University of South Carolina, February 2018
In collaboration with Dr. Amir Karami I explored the content of more than 160,000 tweets posted by 71 public libraries in the western United States of America. We applied computational methods to collect the tweets and discovered meaningful themes. Our research identifies how public libraries represent their services and provides a starting point for different organizations to evaluate the themes of their public tweets. We have submitted our research for presentation at the 2018 Association for Information Science and Technology annual meeting.
Social Media Analysis for Organizations: US Northeastern Public and State Libraries Case Study
Research Assistant, University of South Carolina, December 2017
In collaboration with Dr. Amir Karami I worked on an interdisciplinary research project at the intersection of social media analysis and data science. Using R, we collected and analyzed millions of tweets extracted from several hundred US public libraries to understand how public libraries use social media to describe their services and interact with patrons. We presented our findings at the 2018 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference.
Historic Southern Naturalists
Grant Assistant, McKissick Museum - University of South Carolina, 2017 - 2018
The Historic Southern Naturalists was a grant-funded project collaborated with faculty, students, and colleagues to complete a digitization project that provided open access to the mineral collections of three distinguished University of South Carolina faculty. On this project I experimented with new technology, prepared data to be uploaded in PastPerfect, and maintained regular contact with the project’s stakeholders to ensure the highest quality of work and achieve project objectives.
Archiving South Carolina Women
Student, University of South Carolina Course: Design and Management of Digital Image Collections, Fall 2016
The Archiving South Carolina Women project was an online, community archive I collaborated on with my classmates from Design and Management of Digital Image Collections. We created a Wordpress site for the archive and designed project standards for metadata, documentation, and digitization.