Publications

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The Atlanta University Center’s (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Growing Partnerships and Outreach to Support Its Annual International Games Day (2024): International Games Day (IGD) is one of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library's most popular annual outreach events. The library's IGD transformed from a one-day event for its AUC community members to come visit, socialize, and play a few rounds of table-top card and board games into a two-day event with broader gaming and e-sports networking opportunities which has been very well-received.

Atlanta University Center Repository Link: hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.rwwlpub:0056 

African American Sheet Music Review (2023):  African American Sheet Music is a database created by the Center for Digital Scholarship located in John Hay Library at Brown University. It is a culturally rich database filled with sheet music, illustrations, lyrics, and music publishing history centering around the lives of African American composers, musicians, singers, dancers, and stage actors. Various descriptions have the holdings set between different collection dates; however, in the search filters researchers can search items between 1800 and 1926, with some years missing in between. African American Sheet Music contains a wealth of information about African American theater during eras such as the Antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction. In addition, there are important illustrations for blackface minstrelsy. Approximately 1,455 items are digitized and readily available for research usage.

Atlanta University Center Repository Link: hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.rwwlpub:0053 

Leveling Up Support of Gaming Programs (2023): Abstract: Needed diversity in the gaming community has been a topic with the boom of video games over the decades. However, there is also a need for researching the diversity in library gaming programs. A millennial librarian attempts to contemplate the question, "What are libraries doing to level up support of gaming programs in diverse communities and specifically in HBCUs?"

Ebony Magazine Archive Review (2022): The Ebony Magazine Archive is a very important African-American cultural resource of images, news, entertainment, and much more between the years 1945-2014. It is a primary resource database geared toward academic research in the humanities, but other disciplines may also benefit from the rich content of the archive. Most specifically researchers in art, cultural studies, history, literature, mass media, music, business, and marketing would benefit from the photographs, cartoon/comic strips, advertisements, film reviews, and news reports. In addition, it provides essential images of key African American figures, businesses, and artists. The searching and search results interface lets the user explore by content type, Boolean/phrases, and SmartText searching among other filters. All content is available through PDF for great accessibility and convenience. 

Atlanta University Center Repository Link: hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.rwwlpub:0049 

Capstone Paper (2019): My graduating paper written in fulfillment of the requirements of the MLIS program at Valdosta State University. It focused on student chat usage in academic libraries and the possible causes for the increase of chat usage versus physical reference transactions.

What Color Are You? (2016): My second piece for Valdosta's State University's On Tap Magazine. This article is a review of the Japanese anime "Psycho Pass." The article explores the first episode where the audience is set up with the futuristic world of 22 century Japan in Tokyo. The Japanese government is now ruled by a system called Sibyl and a citizen's pass into society is their "Psycho Pass," which is literally the numerical measurement of their consciousness. A citizen's psycho pass has to be below a certain number called the Crime Co-efficient and crime coefficients are also linked to colors. If either color or crime co-efficient goes to the danger zone, a citizen is sent to a psychological facility for "help." Many ethical and moral lines are blurred on this show. This anime really plays on the morals of the characters and the audience watching.

Social Gaming (2015): My first piece for Valdosta's State University's On Tap Magazine. This article is a brief history of how multiplayer and co-op gaming has become so popular and is now a social activity. Online gaming options are almost impossible to avoid in video games nowadays and is usually expected of the company's producing to have that option. Before the internet boom, only "nerds" were thought to play video games but now it is a widely accepted hobby and has even developed professional careers for people.