Professional Memberships


American Library Association (ALA) (2007 - present)
  • 2011 ALA Emerging Leader, sponsored by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). Will be presenting research on video game collection development at the 2011 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA. 
  • Chair, RUSA Structure Taskforce
  • Assistant Chair, New Members Round Table (NMRT) Student and Student Chapter Outreach Committee
  • Member, NMRT Online Discussion Forum Committee 
  • Active member of Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), and Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)
  • Member of Beta Phi Mu National Library Science Honor Society (affiliated with ALA) Theta Chapter at Pratt Institute,

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) (2007 - present)
  • Presented "Handheld Libraries 101" poster at the ACRL conference in Philadelphia in March 2011.  
  • Named as ACRL Member of the Week for the week of March 22nd, 2010
  • Active in several divisions and roundtables, including the Women's Studies Section, the Law and Political Science Section, the College Libraries Section, and the Arts Section

Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) (2009 - 2010) 

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) (2009 - present)
  • Leadership Committee, 2011 - present
  • Served as student volunteer at 2009 Annual Meeting, November 8 - 11, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Special Libraries Association (SLA) (2007 - present)
  • Attended 2009 SLA Conference and INFO-EXPO in Washington, DC on travel scholarship from SLA@Pratt, the Pratt-SILS student chapter.