Seminars & Workshops Attended

Sequences

In December 2025, I completed the coursework required for the Systematic Review Services Specialization offered by the Medical Library Association, building my skills for systematic reviews.

Workshops

2026

The Library and Institutional Success

Hosted online by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

This series incorporated four one-hour webinars on the status of higher education, including national trends and business models, and the library’s roles within that space. I particularly enjoyed the final webinar on telling the story of library impact through data, taught by Kate McDowell from the University of Illinois. She had plenty of great advice, but the statement that will stick with me is: “Any story can be told. The power is in the retelling.” Do others retell your story?

The following week, attendees had the option to attend a live workshop with other library leaders. The workshop focused on change management and what change we can expect within an academic library. The mini-lessons, followed by group discussion, were thoughtful and engaging, and we came away with connections and ideas for our own spaces.

2024

TWU College of Nursing Faculty and Staff Retreat for DNP Program

Hosted by Jayne Jennings Dunlap, TWU CON Associate Clinical Professor and Interim DNP Program Director.

This two-day retreat allowed faculty and staff who collaborate on the Doctor of Nursing Program to gather from all three campuses in order to learn from one another. Librarians were included on the first day to discuss the research done throughout the course of the program.

As a relatively new librarian for the nursing program, I was thankful to be included, both to get to know the nursing faculty and to learn more about our DNP program and research. I was particularly interested to learn more about their new approach to framing research, PPCO (Problem, Population, Change, Outcome) in order to facilitate quality improvement and systematic change.

2023

Scoping Review Workshop

Hosted by Texas Christian University in partnership with the Joanna Briggs Institute; taught by J. Dru Riddle, Director of the Center for Translational Research at TCU. Attended April 2023.

An in-depth analysis of conducting a scoping review, this full-day workshop gives librarians and researchers the tools they need to plan and execute a scoping review, from determining whether the researchers’ question is best served by a scoping review or another scholarly format; building a protocol to plan the review; and executing a review, including the search strategy, rounds of inclusion and exclusion, and extracting and presenting the evidence.

Seminars

2025

2024

2023

  • Alternative Pathways to Leadership, Texas Women in Higher Education, November 2023.
  • Library Management: Managing from the Middle, Amigos Library Services, October 2023.
  • AI in the Classroom: The Future of Education and ChatGPT’s Role in It, Offices of Teaching & Learning with Technology and Curriculum & Strategic Initiatives at TWU, March 2023.
  • Chat GPT: A Window into the Potential of AI Learning, Offices of Teaching & Learning with Technology and Curriculum & Strategic Initiatives at TWU, March 2023.

2022

2021

  • SMU Ally Training, Women & LGBT Center at Southern Methodist University, November 2021.
  • Trust Me, I’m a Black Woman, Griffiths Leadership Society at the University of Missouri, March 2021.
  • Creating Instructional Videos: A Lesson in Resilience and Adaptability, North American Virtual Reference Online Conference, February 2021.

2020