Claire in the Library

Outcome 3a. Design resources or tools that facilitate access to information.

The first of two important items instruction interns at Rebecca Crown Library are responsible for is displays. Not only do we pull books and link to information relevant to whatever topic the display is focused on, but we were required to create big, beautiful posters to accompany the displayed books. I designed these resources in order to encourage the DU community to learn more three different topics and provided ways to access even more information if interested.

To view which books and movies were a part of each display, select a collection below:

• Freed Between the Lines: Banned Books and You
• National Day of Racial Healing, featuring Jane Elliot
• Celebrating Women’s History Month with Black Women Playwrights

Outcome 3b. Utilize resources or tools to manage information.

The second of two important items created by instruction interns throughout the course of our internship is LibGuides. Since the pandemic, the Rebecca Crown librarians have been creating many of these research guides, some aimed at assisting specific academic departments, others about social issues and advocacy or topics professors propose to us. This year, my boss and Instruction Librarian Ben DeBiasio wanted to clean up our LibGuide offerings, making the guides match in format and updating information and linked resources.

I focused on the following LibGuides, which can be viewed on the Rebecca Crown Library website:

• Art, Art History, and Design
• Inclusive Language Guide (work-in-progress example)
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Nursing
• Psychology
• Theatre Arts

Because these are items that get updated every year, anything viewed after June 30, 2025 might not be my work but instead the work of next year’s Instruction interns.

Outcome 3c. Evaluate resources or tools that manage and facilitate access to information.

This artifact comes from LIS 708, Evidence-Based Planning, Management, and Decision-Making. Below is a proposed service evaluation plan submitted as the final project of this course. My specific proposal outlines a diversity audit of the Harvard Theatre Collection’s physical book collection and discusses both why it’s important to have representation of many different races on the shelves, especially within a performing arts collection, and what this sort of equity might look like at Harvard, i.e. proportional to the demographics of the Harvard/Cambridge communities. I had a lot of fun creating this plan and in my LIS 708 course.