Teaching
Below you will find a selective list of courses and workshops that I've taught over the years.
Graduate course, University of Michigan School of Information, 2023
This graduate course covered foundational theoretical, conceptual, and practical problems in digital curation. Students explored these problems in practice through hands-on projects. This course understood digital curation as the active involvement of information professionals in the management of digital data through its lifecycle of interest and usefulness to science, scholarship and education. To prepare students to work in this growing field, the course aimed to provide a strong grounding in the fundamentals of digital preservation and migration; an understanding of the data practices and needs of researchers; trends and obstacles to data sharing and reuse; and experience making data fit for preservation and range of different users and uses. The course drew on current research information science, archival and library service, and cognate fields. The 2023 syllabus is available here.
Graduate course, University of Michigan School of Information, 2022
This graduate course explored skills for developing, manging, describing, and presenting cultural heritage materials in a networked environment. The course follows the move away from centralized, commercial systems such as Library Management Systems (LMS) toward more agile, component-based solutions and open data standards. This move to network-based and interlinked solutions has coincided with a rapid growth in free and open source software (FOSS) and platforms. Among the activities students learned in the course are creation, management, and updating of XML-based and JSON-based metadata using open tools (such as Python), and the setup, configuration, and management of a networked service (such as the Omeka S platform). The 2022 syllabus is available here.
Graduate course, University of Michigan School of Information, 2022
This graduate course explored fundamental theories, concepts, and principles for describing, arranging, and classifying information-bearing resources. The course was designed to provide a broad foundation in knowledge organization theory and approahces in a variety of domains that illustrate practices in libraries, archives, digital repositories, metadata and data management, and taxonomy. The 2022 syllabus is available here.
Professional workshops, Library of Congress (and other locations since 2019), 2019
I am a certified instructor in The Carpentries, a method of teaching that emphasizes technical skill-building and live-coding in an inclusive and accessible learning environment. I focus on Library Carpentry, which presents an active curriculum for librarians to expand their digital skills. I became involved with this teaching approach in 2018, while at the Library of Congress, and completed instructor certification in 2019. I have since taught workshops in-person and online, for learners at the Smithsonian, the U.S. Geological Survey, various public libraries, and elsewhere.
Graduate course, University of Maryland, 2019
This graduate course explored advanced techniques for managing digital projects for students training to become archivists and librarians. The 2019 syllabus is available here.
Graduate course, University of Maryland, 2018
This graduate course explored advanced techniques for managing digital projects for students training to become archivists and librarians. The 2018 syllabus is available here.
Graduate course, George Mason University, 2016
This graduate course introduced the principles and concepts necessary for managing and understanding archival collections, with a focus on translating the skills of public historians to work in archives. The 2016 syllabus is available here.
Graduate course, University of Maryland, 2015
This graduate course taught the fundamentals of digital preservation for Master's students in the library and archvies tracks at the Maryland iSchool. The 2015 syllabus is available here.
Syllabus designer, University of Michigan, 2012
I designed the syllabus for this graduate-level course on bibliograpy and research methods for advanced, music-focused research. The course was designed to offer an overview of the major reference resources and concepts for designing and carrying out music-focused research. The 2012 syllabus is available here.
Undergraduate course, Bowling Green State University, 2010
This course surveyed selected traditional and popular music cultures from around the globe, while also teaching basic listening and writing skills.
Undergraduate course, Bowling Green State University, 2009
This course surveyed selected traditional and popular music cultures from around the globe, while also teaching basic listening and writing skills.
Undergraduate course, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2009
This course surveyed selected traditional and popular music cultures from around the globe, while also teaching basic listening and writing skills.
Updated May 2023
