Detroit Music Exhibit

• Researched, designed, and set up a large 10-panel atrium exhibit featuring the evolution of Detroit’s music scene for Black History Month.

Dolly Parton Imagination Reading Event

• Helped coordinate, set up, and run an event with local community partners (senior assisted living facility, university library, and elementary school).
• Event included storytime, crafts, and a special appearance by Macho the miniature horse.

Display Cases

• Researched, designed, and installed displays using material from special collections.

Elephant Display

Based on the Jeheskel (Hezy) Shoshani Library Endowed Collection. Built for a donor visit.

Motown Display

Based on the Detroit Art and Culture Collection.

Anatomy-Themed Display

Based on the Florence Nightingale Collection, the Gift from Dr. Gregory Zemenick, and the Shiffman Medical Library Historic Collection.

Subject of the Month – June 2025

• Researched, designed, and created a topical research libguide on queer anticapitalism.
• Built a physical display case (similar size to Motown display).

Interview Committee

• Served on a committee for hiring two new graduate assistants.

MeL Map

• Designed a map based on WSU’s history of MeLCat using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and MapBox API.
  • View the full interactive map here.
• Created a LibGuide focusing on statistics, analysis, and IMLS funding, featuring original custom widgets.

College to Career LibGuide

• Designed and created a LibGuide highlighting WSU’s College to Career initiative with custom widgets.

Film Screening

• Designed and implemented programming for a film screening of the movie 1984.

Safiya Noble Event

• Researched, designed, and created a LibGuide for a scholar/author visit.
• Designed programming for the event.
• Helped coordinate event logistics.

Georeferencing

• Contributed georeferencing to the Detroit branch of OldInsuranceMaps.net, a virtual map overlaid with historical Sanborn fire insurance maps from the digital collection at the Library of Congress.

Incarcerated Students Reference Project

• Provided reference assistance for incarcerated undergraduate students in the WSU Prison Education Program at Macomb Correctional Facility
• Assisted with coordinating and fielding requests

More Library Cases

• Facilitated updating even more display cases, this time coordinating the entire project.
• Devised documentation for pulling material for future interested designers.

Instruction Sessions

• Assisted library instruction sessions for the following courses:
  • ENG 1020: Introductory College Writing

Accessibility Audit

• Overhauled the accessibility statement of the University Library System.
  • Cross-referenced accessibility statements of partner university libraries.
  • Examined Title II to ensure compliance.
• Outlined the new guide that hosted the statement.
• Evaluated the accessibility statements of University Library vendors and publishers.

Catalog Decolonizing

• Devised alternate local LoC cataloging headings/terminology to "Oriental Languages."
• Project cancelled due to work being done on the national level by the South Asia Funnel.

Arab American National Museum Collaboration

• TBD

Subject of the Month – April 2026

• TBD