NAHSL 2021 Starting from Scratch: Taking Charge of Change |
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Prescribing from the shelf: Bibliotherapy yesterday and today.
Mary Mahoney Mary Mahoney is a historian specializing in histories of bibliotherapy from the United States to the present. She is currently at work on a history that explores episodes of therapeutic reading in nineteenth-century asylums, the trenches of World War I, Graceland, and beyond. In her other work, she examines the history of the American Girl franchise as a touchstone of girlhood and popular culture from the 1980s to the present. With her friend and fellow historian Allison Horrocks, she hosts the critically- acclaimed American Girls podcast that rereads the American Girl series book by book. They are also at work on a book exploring the series to be published in 2023. In her day job, Mary is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Trinity College where she helps faculty, students, and staff explore research and teaching using digital methods. |
Principles of data visualization and telling data stories
Peace Ossom-Williamson Peace Ossom-Williamson, MLS, MS, AHIP is the Associate Director of the National Center for Data Services at the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) and Public Health Informatics Analyst at COVID Black. She serves on the advisory council of the NNLM Evaluation Center and is a member of both the executive board of the Texas Library Association and the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. Peace is an active researcher and innovator with over 15 years of experience in libraries. As an informationist and health educator, she has expertise in the provision of services crossing between libraries and public health, particularly in the areas of scholarly communications and data services. Ossom-Williamson also teaches courses in the undergraduate public health program at UTA and the graduate LIS program at San Jose State University. |