During the 2021-2022 academic year, Cecelia worked as a Graduate Student worker providing reference assistance to the Simmons community and mentoring undergraduate and newer MSLIS students. Beyond her reference work, Cecelia also completed two other projects: designing and implementing a taxonomy for tagging reference chats and creating a dashboard to display the results of the tagging data in collaboration with User Services Librarian, Brian Arrigo; and poducing a series of short tutorial videos to support the teaching and learning opportunities presented in chat reference.
This video series was created by Cecelia in her work as a Library Student Worker at the Simmons University Library. The series is designed as a tool for remote chat operators answering frequently asked questions. The five videos are designed as brief how-tos to help students learn how to perform the tasks addressed. The topics were gathered through reference statistics taken using the taxonomy developed by Cecelia and User Services Librarian Brian Arrigo.
The copyright for the videos and the playlist are held by the Simmons University Library. Please contact library@simmons.edu with any questions regarding copyright or use. Access the video playlist.
This digital library was created collaboratively by the members of LIS 462, "Digital Libraries," during the Fall 2021 semester. This digital library presents digital surrogates of Dorothy Siegfreid Silhavy's scrapbook of her time at Simmons from 1938-1942. Cecelia was part of the curation and rights management teams.
This project is licensed by the Simmons University Archives for educational use only. For more information, see the Digital Scrapbook's "Terms of Use" page. Access the Dorothy Siegfreid Silhavy Digital Scrapbook.
This presentation was created as a part of LIS 462, "Digital Libraries," during the Fall 2021 semester. This presentation outlines the baisc qualities of data governance policy in the context of small digital libraries such as the one that our class was developing over the course of the semester.
This presentation was created for educational purposes, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Watch the presentation.
This presentation was created as part of LIS 462, "Digital Libraries," during the Fall 2021 semester. This presentation outlines the features of the Maine Memory Network, a digital library hosted by the Maine Historical Society.
This presentation was created for educational purposes, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Watch the presentation.
These projects were created as part of a larger remote practicum that accompanied LIS 438,"Introduction to Archival Theory and Practice," during the Spring 2021 semester. The finding aid describes a small collection of instiutional records that primarily focus on outreach at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA. The Omeka exhibit presents a survey of the materials within the collection. The museum closed in 2016, and Simmons University now holds their inistuitonal records for use in the LIS 438 practicum program.
The materials in this project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Access the Exhibit. Access the Finding Aid.
This tutorial was created by Bailey Bader, Cecelia Lasley, and Rebekah Taylor for LIS 488,"Technology for Information Professionals," during the Spring 2021 semester. The assignment was to develop a tutorial for the other students in the class on a technology about which the group did not know much. This group chose OER because they were all interested in exploring a different kind of educational tool. The group chose to focus their tutorial on one OER creation tool, Pressbooks, and created a sample OER that summarizes their research about OER.
This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Watch the Tutorial. Access the sample OER.
This handout was created as a project for LIS 488,"Technology for Information Professionals," during the Spring 2021 semester. The assignment was to choose a "buzzword," a term currently in heavy use in the LIS or tech worlds and create a one-page handout defining and explaining it to the other students in the class. Cecelia chose Creative Commons because she is interested in open access and scholarly communications, and Creative Commons is a related topic.
This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Access the Buzzword handout.
This LibGuide was created as a final project for LIS 407, "Information Sources and Services," during the Fall 2020 semester. The assignment was to create a LibGuide on a topic of the student's choosing.The topic of this LibGuide, adapting Special Collections instruction and outreach to the world of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflects Cecelia's interests in Special Collections, instruction, and outreach.
This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Access the LibGuide.