Staff Achievements 2023 – Research, Conferences and Awards

Staff Achievements in 2023 – Research, Conferences, and Awards

 

Keith Pickett served on the board of directors of the Medical Library Association and as chair of the MLA Chapter Council. He also served as secretary and chair of the Website Committee for the South Central Academic Medical Libraries (SCAMeL) consortium and as co-chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

 

Laura Wright was chosen as president-elect of the Health Sciences Librarians Association of Louisiana (HSLAL) and served on both the Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The Early Career Librarians Initiative (ECLI), which she co-founded, won the Medical Library Association’s Chapter Project of the Year Award in March. In September, she won the prestigious SCC/MLA Librarian of the Year Award in addition to the second-place Elizabeth K. Eaton, Ph.D. Research Award. Laura also celebrated her 10th anniversary with the Matas Library in 2023.

Laura co-authored two peer-reviewed publications and three conference presentations. In the summer, she and Amy Corder co-presented “Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Health Policy,” a three-part workshop series presented by Partners for Advancing Health Equity.

 

Christine Hernández

  • In April, Christine presented “Holding by Enrique A. Cervantes at The Latin American Library” at the 51st Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) in Mexico City. The conference theme was “Imagining Mexican Art and Architecture.”
     
  • In June, she co-presented with Gabrielle Vail of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill the poster “New Digital Tools for Re-Connecting with Ancient Mayan Texts” at the 68th annual Conference of the Seminar for the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) in Washington D.C. The conference theme was “Connection Development: Collaborations and Communities Across the Americas, Iberia, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas.”
     
  • In June, she also began her term as 2023–2024 president of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), the foremost international professional association for academic libraries focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is preparing the program for the 69th annual SALALM conference titled 5 K’atuns/100 Years Completed: Calendar Celebrations in Latin America, the Caribbean, Iberia, and Their Diasporas. The conference will be held in New Orleans and hosted by Tulane in June 2024 as part of the centennial of Latin American Studies at Tulane.
     
  • In July, she co-presented with Gabrielle Vail of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill the poster “READ & Mayacodices.org Workshop” for the 2023 Kaqchiquel Summer School course.

 

Juan Pablo Gómez

  • In January, Juan Pablo presented the “Central American Portal” at the Central American Politics Consortium (CAPC) at Tulane University. The portal is a unique work in progress that gathers open-access online resources on history, politics, justice, human rights, migration, corruption, and more aimed at academics and professionals in the region who may not have access to paid subscription databases and other resources available in other parts of the world. The workshop was organized by the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) and the University of Oklahoma’s Center for the Americas with a select international group of 30 Central Americanist scholars.
     
  • “Memories and Critical History: Documenting the Past in Nicaragua and El Salvador.” The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century. Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List, eds. Gainesville, Fl: University Press of Florida, 2023, 69–95.

 

Hortensia Calvo

  • At the 68th annual Conference of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) in June, Hortensia was honored by her colleagues in recognition of serving as the organization’s executive director for 17 years.
  • In July, she participated in the “Virtual Curatorial Roundtable: Focus on Latin American Collections, California Rare Book School,” moderated by Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
     
  • “Un tesoro disponible: El libro latinoamericanos en las bibliotecas académicas de EE.UU.” Tendencia Editorial, 35. Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario, 2023. 3-7. https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/40797
     
  • Hortensia Calvo and Beatriz Colombi. Cartas de Lysi: la mecenas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en correspondencia inédita. 2nd rev. ed. Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2023.

 

Jordan Mirostaw celebrated her fifth anniversary as a Matas Library staff member.

 

Graciela Cabrera contributed to the Matas Library’s efforts in creating the annual faculty publications report for the School of Medicine. And she celebrated her 25th anniversary as a library staff member.

 

Mary Holt celebrated her 35th anniversary with Tulane Libraries.

 

Aundria Parkman co-authored a book chapter with Amy Corder and Laura Wright that has been accepted pending revisions. She also designed the logo for the SCC/MLA Early Career Librarians Initiative (ECLI) and volunteered for the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

 

Victoria Elmwood

In May, Victoria presented “Creating Storymaps in Google Earth Web Using the Louisiana Digital Library” at the Louisiana Digital Library Fest in Baton Rouge. This workshop brought together the freely available digital story mapping technology of Google Earth Web (GE Web) and the wealth of archival and rare material contained in the Louisiana Digital Library. Participants mapped a series of points in Acadiana using GE Web. Then they uploaded instructor-selected sample digitized materials that appeared as annotations for each point on the map. The resulting series of pinned locations featured annotations that included images, links, sound files, and text. Ultimately, participants created maps whose annotated locations connected a diverse set of digitized archival materials on a shared topic.

 

Raquel Horlick and Courtney Kearney

In July, Raquel and Courtney presented “Expanding and transforming access to Tulane University publications” at the STEM Librarians South virtual conference.

 

Amy Corder served as community council liaison for the Medical Library Association Professional Recruitment & Retention Committee and as chair of the SCC/MLA Bylaws Committee in addition to volunteering on the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans. At the meeting, she co-presented “Knowledge of Systematic Review Methodology Among Health Sciences Faculty: A Cross-Sectional Survey” which won the 2nd Place Elizabeth K. Eaton, Ph.D. Research Award. She and Laura Wright co-presented “Research Synthesis for Evidence-Based Health Policy,” a three-part workshop series presented by Partners for Advancing Health Equity. And she co-authored a research protocol published in BMJ Open and received an acknowledgment in a systematic review published in SSM – Population Health.

 

Yue Ming participated in the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans and presented “Introduction to Open Access Data Sharing” during Open Access Week in collaboration with LSU Health Sciences Center. She also completed the “Evidence-Based Practice for the Medical Librarian” course held by the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science as well as the “Introduction to Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” on Coursera.

 

Anthony DelRosario was the keynote speaker at the 2023 Louisiana Studies Conference in September.

 

Madeline Cominos celebrated 25 years as a library technician and retired with legacy status.

 

Faye Daigle won a scholarship to attend a course at the California Rare Books School in August. Held in Washington D.C. and hosted by the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the course, titled “Power of Display: Books as Transformative Tools in Exhibitions,” was a week-long deep dive into creating, planning, installing, and supporting exhibitions using library and archival collections. She was also accepted into Louisiana State University’s library science program and is finishing up her first semester there.

 

Bea Calvert

  • In October, Bea helped organize the faculty discussion panel “Using OERs in the Classroom” at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library and participated in Open Access Week in collaboration with the LSU Health Sciences Center Library by presenting “Open Access for Health Professionals: The Benefits of OA Publishing.” Bea was also elected to the Health Sciences Librarians Association of Louisiana (HSLAL) Nominating Committee.
  • She co-taught six sessions of the Matas 101 program for first-year medical students and five instruction sessions for the Family and Community Medicine Clerkship.
  • In September, she volunteered with the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2023 SCC/SC Annual Meeting in New Orleans and presented the contributed paper “The Role of the Health Sciences Library and Self-Directed Learning in Medical Education: Evidence-Based Medicine and Lifelong Learning.”

 

lisa Hooper

  • lisa authored an opinion piece that ran in the Washington Post on April 28, 2023. Titled “We Should Worry About Preserving Current Content, Not Old Movies,” her piece called attention to the fact that many “culturally rich and significant films” today are at the mercy of for-profit businesses. As such, they represent content that libraries “cannot and will not be able to legally collect, preserve, and make available.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/dvd-cultural-heritage-libraries/ 
  • “Strength in Numbers: Building Shared Knowledge Practices through Open Dialogue,” moderator. Association of Creative Technologies in Academic Libraries. November 2, 2023. 
  • “Podcasting Pedagogies,” moderator. October 27, 2023 Humanities Podcast Network Symposium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8NvA81VaUE 
  • “Conversation with Library Professionals,” panelist. October 19, 2023 Video Trust Symposium. https://youtu.be/HarphRVe8CU?si=nMy7aNwqD3Q68ToN

 

Kay P Maye

  • Sheffield, M., Hernandez, J., de la Cruz, J., & Maye, K. (2023, October). Python Primer. Data Curation Network. data-primers/Python Primer/python.md at master · DataCurationNetwork/data-primers · GitHub.
  • Maye, K., Sheffield, M., Schuler, A., & Barrett, C. (2023, November 1). Investigating the Data Literacy Coursework offered through ALA-Accredited Library and Information Science Programs in the United States [Presentation]. Southeast Data Librarian Symposium, Virtual.
  • Selected as co-chair of the American Library Association’s Spectrum Advisory Committee. He also served as a planning committee member for the 2023 Southeast Data Librarian Symposium.
  • Maye, K. (2023, April 27). One of These Things is Not Like the Other: Using Google Analytics Data to Assess Institutional Repository Collections [Workshop/Presentation]. 2023 Southern Mississippi Institutional Repository Conference. 
  • Maye, K. (2023, February 23). Becoming a snake charmer: A beginner's introduction to Python [Workshop/Presentation]. Network of the National Library of Medicine – Region 3, Virtual. 

 

Lesley Montgomery was appointed by Katina Strauch, founder of The Charleston Conference and senior editor of the library technical services journal Against the Grain, to serve as the new column editor for Wandering the Web, a bi-monthly review of online reference resources. Against the Grain V35-2 April, 2023 Full Issue by against-the-grain - Issuu

 

Published 2/20/2024