Erin Burns
Texas Tech University
Erin Burns is a STEM librarian at Texas Tech University and serves as the personal librarian to the Whitacre College of Engineering. She has a BA in English from Youngstown State University and an MLIS from Kent State University. Her research interests include mental health and academic ablism, digital humanities, critical librarianship, and yoga. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT 500), and you can find her walking or hiking when she is not knitting, creating yarn art, or standing in tree pose.
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July 28, 2022
12:45 pm–1:10 pm
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Pivot! Shifting from non-STEM to STEM librarianshipLibrary school often doesn’t have a STEM librarian track, leaving STEM librarians to find their own way. In this presentation two STEM librarians will discuss how they came from non-STEM backgrounds and adjusted/adapted to STEM librarianship. Learn what they learned, the trials they overcame, and how they pivoted to STEM.
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Presentation |
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July 29, 2022
3:00 pm–3:07 pm
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Systematic Reviews: From One-Hit Wonder to the Long and Winding RoadTexas Tech’s librarians have been offering a wide variety of workshops that are almost like one-shot sessions, usually directed at graduate students and faculty. When assessing the Systematic Reviews workshop, we discovered that a one-shot session was not enough. Therefore, during the 2022 spring semester, we collaborated with different areas of librarian expertise (STEM, Education […]
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Lightning Talk |
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July 29, 2022
3:50 pm–4:15 pm
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STEM Workshops and You!Have you ever wondered how to reach more STEM students? This seminar will go over how we have used workshops to teach a variety of STEM students and subjects and how you can use workshops to reach your students.
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Presentation |
