Leddy Library
Mita Williams



User Interface and User Experience Librarian
B.Sc. (McMaster), M.L.I.S. (McGill)

mita@uwindsor.ca
519.253.3000 ext. 3855




about me

After graduating from McMaster University with an Honours B.Sc in Geography and Environmental Science and acquiring a M.L.I.S. from McGill University, I was employed in a number of contract positions in public, corporate, non-profit, government, and academic libraries before joining the Leddy Library as Science Librarian in 1999.


publications and presentations

works

peer-reviewed
  • “The Social Life of Digital Reference: What the Technology Affords" in Digital versus Non-Digital Reference, Edited by Jessamyn West, Haworth Press 2004 -a monograph published simultaneously as The Reference Librarian, Vol. 41, No. 85.

    Social Life of Digital Reference - What the Technology Affords.doc

non-peer reviewed



presentations

  • Making eBooks from Wordpress to EPUB. University of Windsor Digital Humanities Summer Series (Leddy Library and the Humanities Research Group), June 15, 2011: slides
  • member of eReader Panel. The popularity of eBook readers and the Implications for Canadian Libraries, OLITA Digital Odyssey, June 10, 2011
  • Build your own library with Zotero, University of Windsor's Campus Technology Day 2011, May 25th, 2011 : slides
  • We're Jamun and We Hope You Like Jamun Too, Code4Lib North 2011, McMaster University, May 6, 2011 : slides
  • Games Without Frontiers: using games to discover new geographies and generate new futures, University of Windsor's UWin Week, October 14, 2009 : slides
  • Promoting and Positioning RefWorks At Your University; OCUL RefWorks Forum, University of Toronto, August 15, 2005 ppt
  • "The Great Debate: Be it Resolved that we Teach them Nothing - Library Instruction Doesn't Work", Canadian Library Association, Calgary AB, Thursday, June 16, 2005

  • "Making Links with SFX"; NAAUG-SMUG 2005 Annual Conference, University of Maryland, College Park, June 10, 2005 ppt

  • "RefWorks and GetIt - Making Links"; OCUL Forum; Guelph-Humber, December 8th, 2004 ppt
  • "Weapons of Mass Instruction" w/Lisa Sloniowski ; Ontario Library Association Superconference ; January 29, 2004

  • "Blogging and The Reference Librarian" part of "Blogging for Librarians" panel w/ John Dupuis (York University) & Steven Cohen (Rivkin Radler, LLP, New York) ; Ontario Library Association Superconference ; January 30, 2004 ppt
  • "The use of the Internet to reach beyond mainstream sources and to connect activist communities." w/Lisa Sloniowski ; Zap Your Pram, October 24-26, 2003
  • "Blogapalooza" ; Ontario Library Association Superconference ; February 1, 2003 ppt

  • "Classifying Web Resources" w/ Wayne Daniels, Jeanne Enright, and Scott Mackenzie; Ontario Library Association Superconference; February 6, 1997


web portfolio




unconferences





other
  • 2010, 2011: game runner and community guide for EVOKE

  • October 21st, 2009: TEDxDetroit

  • May 2, 2009: hosted a Jane's Walk of Walkerville, Windsor, Ontario with Chris Holt and Andrew Foot

  • February 19, 2009: Pecha Kucha presentation: "The City As Playground", Talk20 Night at ArtCite, Windsor



Mita Williams
Librarian

updated June 2011