Holly Hampton is the Head of User Services/User Experience Librarian at California State University at San Marcos. Holly earned her MLIS from Valdosta State University in 2018. Holly’s philosophy includes ensuring the staff and faculty within her unit feel supported, empowered, engaged, and fulfilled. Her research includes examining how this philosophy can be applied and how it changes the experience for library employees and library users. She explores how academic libraries can evolve and improve to continue to meet the ever-changing needs of its users. Holly has been involved with the DEI efforts within her library and organization, including creating a
Black Lives Matter LibGuide and a
Stop Asian Hate LibGuide, co-creating the Library’s statement in support of Black Lives Matter, facilitating trainings and discussions about anti-racism, advocating on behalf of minorities in her leadership role, and being an active member of BFSA. She has worked with library administrators, colleagues, and campus associations to learn and help others learn how equity, diversity, inclusion, justice, and anti-racism practices can be applied within the organization in an effort to improve the experience of BIPOC and move the organization forward.
Talitha Matlin is the STEM Librarian at California State University San Marcos. She has a Master’s of Learning, Design, and Technology from San Diego State and a Master’s of Library and Information Science from San José State University. Her research interests focus on applying instructional design methodologies to nontraditional instructional settings.
Yvonne Nalani Meulemans has been the Head of Teaching and Learning at the University Library at California State University at San Marcos since 2010. Her research interests include the use of threshold concept framework to support students’ transformational learning and reflective practice in library leadership and management.
Lalitha Nataraj is the Social Sciences Librarian at California State University, San Marcos. She holds an MLIS from UCLA and a BA in English and Women’s Studies from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include feminist pedagogy, critical information literacy, critical fashion studies, South Asians in librarianship, and scholarly inquiry and the research cycle.
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