Mita Williams
User Interface and User Experience Librarian
B.Sc. (McMaster), M.L.I.S. (McGill)
mita@uwindsor.ca
519.253.3000 ext. 3855
- liaison librarian for Government Documents with Shuzhen Zhao
- game runner, community guide, EVOKE
- organizer, Windsor-Essex ChangeCamp
- councillor, OLITA
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
papers
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.
non-peer reviewed
- Scholr 2.0 : a white paper by Scholars Portage (with Stacy Allison-Cassin, York University), August 2007
- "Blogs: Postcards from the Web" ; Access: The Magazine of the Ontario Library Association ; Vol. 9, No. 2 ; Winter 2003 ; p 14-17.
presentations
- Not library games. Libraries *in* games, WILU 2010, McMaster University forthcoming
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- Games Without Frontiers: using games to discover new geographies and generate new futures, University of Windsor's UWin Week, October 14, 2009 : slides
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- Promoting and Positioning RefWorks At Your University; OCUL RefWorks Forum, University of Toronto, August 15, 2005 • ppt
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- "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
Moderator: Susan Cleyle, Associate University Librarian, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL. Affirmative ~ Melody Burton, Public Services Librarian, Communications/Outreach, Stauffer Library Reference Services, Queen's University Library, Kingston, ON; Nancy McCormack, Reference Services Librarian, William R. Lederman Law Library, Queen's University Library, Kingston, ON. Negative ~ Lisa Sloniowski, Reference Librarian, Scott Library & Information Literacy Program Coordinator, York University Libraries, Toronto, ON; Mita Sen-Roy, Science Librarian, Leddy Library, University of Windsor, ON
- "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
- 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
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