Beliefs

• I believe libraries should be accessible to all and that information, technology, and educational resources within the library should be openly accessible to all who wish to use it.

• I believe that libraries should be user friendly for different groups – vision impaired, hearing impaired, people with and without disabilities, people who speak different languages, and people from all walks of life no matter their race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, among many others identifiers.

• I believe a library must acknowledge prior wrongdoing and create a welcoming, equitable environment for all in the community it serves in order to create a trusting environment with the public.

• I believe that the goals of libraries are specific to the communities they serve and to the material of their holdings – and that both should be held in a homeostasis.

• I believe a library is a space that constantly evaluates their holdings, mission statement, and the efficacy of both, and adapts accordingly as needs change.

• I believe that a library must be community focused.

• I believe that a librarian must be able to support the inquiries of patrons in an unbiased way, guiding them to information that is of the highest quality coming from diverse authors and authorities.

• I believe that librarians should empower information users.
   

Vision

• I envision a technologically advanced, open, bright, lively, and collaborative space where patrons feel safe to ask librarians questions regarding reference, research, and information.

• I envision a safe space for free learning, and free speech, with zero tolerance for hate for any group or person that culminates in their danger (i.e. Racism, Antisemitism, Transphobia, Homophobia, Islamophobia, or any other forms of organized hate towards groups of people). A place where all can access information, training, and the tools they need to be informed community members.
   

Expected Goals in the Future

I expect to continue my current role as a documentation manager for the short term, and eventually hold a position in a museum archive or database as a manager of digital collections. For now, my patrons are my staff, objects conservators in an art museum. I would like to broaden my effect to reach all staff of a museum, as well as external researchers, and museum patrons. This goal is ultimately to serve more of the community that I feel I am a part of, as opposed to a smaller fraction of it, like I am serving now.

I am learning how to make our collections more accessible in the ways that I am able to. This includes inventorying, digitizing, processing, creating finding aids, training staff, and adapting to the needs of my staff and the technology required for them to do their jobs efficiently. I seek feedback from my staff regularly in the form of anonymous surveys asking them to explain their needs, their concerns, and what is working with changes that I have implemented in our archives.

I would like to implement more equitable and intersectional practices in my work now and in the future. This includes making sure that our reference library contains publications written by people from marginalized groups or communities, and creating access to our archives to communities that may not know they exist. I plan on working closely with other departments in the museum like central archives, digital, and the library to be able to achieve an overarching goal of creating more equity in our institution’s information and education.​