Honors & Awards

  • Legislative Award for Excellence in Political Affairs and Library Advocacy. Utah Library Association, 05/2021
  • Honored at the 2020 Celebrate U, A Showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements for “From Digital Library to Open Datasets: Embracing a Collections as Data Framework.”. University of Utah, 04/2020
  • 2019 American Library Association Gerald Hodges Intellectual Freedom Chapter Relations Award recognizing the most significant intellectual freedom contribution made by a state or regional chapter of the American Library Association. The 2019 Hodges Award was presented to the Utah Library Association for efforts sustained during my year as ULA President. American Library Association, 05/2019
  • Borgman, Christine L., Golshan, M. S., Sands, A. E., Wallis, J. C., Cummings, R. L., & Randles, B. M. (2016). Data management in the long tail: Social and technical opportunities. Best Research Paper, Runner-up at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), Amsterdam. International Digital Curation Conference, 02/2016
  • ICPSR Data Curation Research Paper Competition, Runner-up. ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research), 06/2014
  • Chancellor’s Marshall . University of California, Los Angeles , 06/2013
  • Showcase Portfolio . University of California, Los Angeles , 05/2013
  • Distinguished Undergraduate Student Honor . California State University, Long Beach , 05/2011
  • Whittington Scholarship for excellence in the philosophy department. California State University, Long Beach , 12/2010

Affiliations

  • Utah Library Association (ULA), member, 11/2013 - present
  • American Library Association (ALA), Member, 09/2011 - present

In the Media

Professional Service

  • Utah State Library. Board Member. 06/2022 - 06/2025
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities. Grant Reviewer. 01/2022 - 03/2022
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Member. Executive Director Search Committee. 06/2021 - 07/2021
  • JSTOR. Role: Beta Tester. Beta Testing for Constellate, a new text and data mining interface for JSTOR Data. 05/2021 - 08/2021
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Co-Chair. Advocacy Committee. 05/2020 - present
  • J. Willard Marriott Library. Role: Liaison. Political Science Liasion. 05/2020 - present
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Co-Chair. Library Day on the Hill. 06/2019 - present
  • J. Willard Marriott Library. Role: Co-Chair. Library Services Committee. 05/2019 - 05/2021
  • Utah Library Association. Past President. 05/2019 - 05/2020
  • J. Willard Marriott Library. Role: Member. Digital Matters Program Asst. Services Search Committee . 11/2018 - 01/2019
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Member. Advocacy Committee. 10/2018 - present
  • Digital Library Federation Forum. Role: Reviewer. Learn@DLF Digital Pedagogy Cookbook. 10/2018 - 10/2018
  • Utah Library Association. President. 05/2018 - 05/2019
  • Utah Library Association. President-Elect. 05/2017 - 05/2018
  • Educause. Role: Reviewer. Digital Humanities Review Group. 03/2017 - 05/2017
  • Greater Western Library Alliance, Prairie Village, KS. Role: Member. GWLA Research Data Management Task Force. 01/2017 - 10/2017
  • DH + Lib (Digital Humanities and Libraries) . Role: Editor at Large. DH + Lib Editor at Large. 11/2016 - 12/2016
  • National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Grant Reviewer. 09/2016 - 10/2016
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Member. Copyright Education Committtee. 06/2016 - present
  • University of Utah. Role: Conference Co-Chair. Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities . 03/2016 - 03/2017
  • DataONE, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM . Role: Peer Reviewer. DataONE Education Modules Reviewer. 03/2016 - 04/2016
  • Educause, Washington DC. Role: Chair. ECAR Working Group for Research Data Sharing. 02/2016 - 02/2017
  • Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities for DHU1 - DHU5. Planning Committee Member. 10/01/2015 - present
  • J. Willard Marriott Library. Philosophy Liasion. 09/2015 - 03/2022
  • ILEAD. Mentor for the Open Education Resources ILEAD Team, 2015. 03/2015 - present
  • Creative Libraries Utah . Blog editor and guest podcaster. 01/2015 - 01/2017
  • Utah Library Association. Public Relations Chair. 12/2014 - 05/2017
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Editor. Creative Libraries Utah, editor. Guest editor and podcaster. 12/2014 - 05/2016
  • Utah Academic Library Consortium. Role: Member. UALC Public Affairs Committee. 07/2014 - 04/2015
  • Utah Academic Library Consortium. Role: Member. Data Curation Interest Group. 02/2014 - 04/2015
  • Utah Library Association. Role: Member. ULA Outreach Committee. 10/2013 - 02/2014

Internal Service

  • Faculty Review Committee. Member, 07/2021 - present. College service.
  • SEBS CIT. Team Leadere, 03/2021 - present. College service.
  • Liaison to the Political Science Department. Liaison, 05/2020 - present. College service.
  • Library Services Committee. Co-Chair, 05/2019 - 05/2021. College service.
  • Digital Matters Program Assistant Search Committee. Member, 11/2018 - 05/2019. College service.
  • Digital Matters Lab Steering Committee. Chair, 01/01/2017 - 02/01/2018. University service.
  • Search Committee, Graduate and Undergraduate Services Librarian. Member, 09/2016 - 02/2017. College service.
  • Search Committee, Mountain West Digital Library Program Director. Chair, 04/2016 - 10/2016. College service.
  • Review Undergraduate Honor's Theses. Reviewer, 04/2016 - 04/2016. University service.
  • Search Committee - Head, Digital Scholarship Services. Member, 01/2016 - 05/2016. College service.
  • Search Committee, Associate Dean for Human Resources. Member, 01/2016 - 04/2016. College service.
  • Participation in the SEBS and FAAPH groups. Selector, 01/01/2016 - present. College service.
  • Co-liaison to Philosophy department. Co-liaison, 01/01/2016 - present. College service.
  • Digital Matters Lab Working Group. Member , 08/2015 - 02/01/2017. University service.
  • ASPIRE Grants Reviewer. Reviewer, 08/2015 - 09/2015. College service.
  • Staff Intranet Task Force. Member, 05/2015 - 06/2016. College service.
  • ICPSR Designated Representative for the University of Utah. 04/2015 - present. University service.
  • Review Undergraduate Honor's Theses. 04/2015 - 04/2015. University service.
  • Host Data Journal Club once a month with Daureen Nesdill. Find speakers, provide food, and promote a reading group around data-related issues. Host and Presenter, 04/01/2015 - 04/01/2017. College service.
  • Search Committee - Human Resources Director. Member, 04/01/2015 - 08/15/2015. College service.
  • Professional Development Time Task Force. Member, 11/2013 - 02/2014. College service.

Community Partnership

  • Wasatch Presbyterian Preschool Board Member. 11/2020 - 11/2023
  • Spoke at Career Day for Hillside Middle School. 12/12/2018 - 12/12/2018
  • Organized, hosted, and promoted the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for the Utah Library Association. Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library. 09/03/2015 - 02/03/2016
  • MWDL Fall Webinar Series - http://www.mwdl.org/events/webinars/webinarschedule.php. 06/2014 - 11/2014
  • Public Library Partnerships Project. 03/2014 - 04/2015
  • MWDL Winter Webinar Series. 11/2013 - 03/2014
  • Spoke at Career Day for Hunter Junior High. 09/20/2013 - 09/30/2013

Outreach

  • Co-liaison to Philosophy and Geography departments. 01/01/2016 - present
  • ICPSR Designated Representative, University of Utah . 04/2015 - present