Fellows

Negeen Aghassibake

Negeen Aghassibake is the Data Visualization Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries. She received her MS in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2018. Her areas of interest include data literacy and equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts in libraries.

Delores Carlito

Delores Carlito is the Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Mervyn H. Sterne Library. Her research interests are various literacies, particularly metaliteracy, instruction assessment, information literacy across campus and disciplines, and high-impact educational practices. Her recent publications have been on library support of multimodal text creation.

David Christensen

David Christensen is a Data Analysis Librarian at Seattle Public Library. In this role, he provides decision support and assessment across all levels of the organization. In 2019, he produced data visualizations that contributed to the development of $213.3 million library levy renewal package. These visualizations included race and social equity index mapping, open-hours modeling, overdue fee concept mapping, and e-content use behavior analysis.

Ryan Clement

Ryan Clement is the Data Services Librarian at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he helps students from the social sciences and humanities find, manage, interpret, and visualize data. He loves talking to students about how to use data well and how to use data for good. In addition to his work with data and digital scholarship support, he also works on library user experience, service design, and assessment.

Sally Gore

Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS, is the Manager of Research and Scholarly Communication Services for the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she oversees the Library’s efforts at collaboration with basic science and clinical researchers on campus, as well as all scholarly communication endeavors, including eScholarship@UMMS (Institutional Repository). She’s also served as the Research Evaluation Analyst for the University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical & Translational Science. Sally earned her graduate degree in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University and an MS in Exercise Physiology from Ithaca College. She writes the blog, “A Librarian by Any Other Name” and can be found on Twitter at @mandosally.

Tess Grynoch

Tess Grynoch is the Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Hailing from Canada, she holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta. In her current position, she collaborates with faculty, students, researchers, fellow colleagues, and academic units to support scholarly communication programs at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, including library-based research data support services

Jo Klein

Jo Klein is the Geospatial and Data Visualization Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), where they provide consultations, instruction, and other services to support the geospatial/GIS and data visualization needs of faculty, staff, and students. They received a Master of Library and Information Science from UNCG in 2018, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2015.

Dorothy Ogdon

Dorothy Ogdon is the University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries Emerging Technologies Librarian. She is interested in exploring potential applications for 3D printing, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence in information discovery and data reuse. She was a participant in the 2018 Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians at North Carolina State University and is currently coordinating the development of a Virtual Reality Studio and 3D Printing Space at Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Megan Ozeran

As the Data Analytics & Visualization Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Megan promotes best practices in data visualization to the campus community, including designing and teaching workshops and consulting with researchers. Her research into the ethics of data visualization allows her to integrate day-to-day practice with theory and critical studies. She is excited to join the Visualizing the Future team and help shape the growing field of data visualization in libraries. (Note: starting Spring 2020, Megan Ozeran is a Public Services Librarian at Folsom Lake College.)

Alisa Rod

Alisa Rod, PhD, is the Research Data Management Specialist at McGill University Library. Dr. Rod was formerly the Associate Director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College, where she provided direct and programmatic support for the faculty’s efforts to integrate empirical techniques and methods throughout the Barnard curriculum. She has a background in survey methodology and her research interests include interdisciplinary applications of quantitative methods, assessment, and pedagogical innovations related to spatial data analysis and visualization.

Cass Wilkinson Saldaña

Cass Wilkinson Saldaña is the Social Science and Geospatial Data Librarian in Cornell University’s Research & Learning Services unit. Zoë specializes in helping learners & researchers find, interpret, and visualize data across the social sciences. They are particularly interested in creating pathways to critical & feminist data science praxis, surfacing questions of embodiment & queerness in data, and, when not doing data librarian things, playing a lot of pinball.

Matthew Sisk

Matthew Sisk is the GIS and Anthropology Librarian in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on human- environment interactions, the spatial scale environmental toxins and community-based research. At Notre Dame, his primary role is to assist students and faculty with general GIS questions, satellite imagery analysis, data visualization, workflow automation, coding and data curation.

Amy Sonnichsen

Amy Sonnichsen is an LA-based Digital Initiatives Librarian and lover of libraries, data, art, design, and architecture. She hails from the Midwest as an alum of the Twin Cities, St. Olaf College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With past experience in library reference, cataloging, and digital collections, Amy presently delves into all things digital with hints of zines, archives, special collections, and a sprinkling of data vis!