What is your role on the committee?
I recently joined the Comms team, working on the newsletter and the blog! Prior to my new role, I was a member of the ILG New Professionals sub-committee for three years, mostly co-running and editing the Chatting Info Lit podcast.
When did you join and why?
I joined the ILG New Professionals in summer 2022. I had such a fantastic time with that group, helping out with events and working on Chatting Info Lit, that I wanted to stay on with the ILG at the end of my tenure. So, when I was invited to join the Comms team this past summer, I jumped at the chance! We’re living in a time when information literacy couldn’t possibly be any more important, and Comms presented an opportunity to use some of the skills I’d developed with the New Professionals (and in my day job) to help share information, make connections, and get the word out about ILG events.
What is your day job?
I am a Learning Development Librarian at the University of Nottingham, on the Information Skills side of a team that is made up of teaching librarians and academic skills specialists. In my role, I run information skills sessions, support students on a one-to-one basis, and contribute to our online student-facing resources. I’m the primary Arts and Humanities person on our team, which fits my past life and background as an early career historian. In the current cultural and financial climate around higher education, supporting Arts subjects (and making their IL benefits visible) is incredibly important, so I hope to further this as much as I can in my current roles. I have also (semi-accidentally) become the AI literacy person in our team at Nottingham, and so much of my role over the last two years has been focused on artificial intelligence in higher education and its troubling implications for IL…!
What are your other interests?
My interest in early modern history has transitioned from academic research to amateur historical fiction, and whilst any kind of publication in this avenue is still very much a pipe dream, I have been working on scripts for a fantasy / horror comic book series set in Elizabethan England. In the past few months, I have also fallen off the Warhammer wagon, and I now spend a fair amount of my free time painting miniatures to relax!
