10.10.08

Amy worked with the other Doctoral Student Association representatives, Cassidy Sugimoto and Chirag Shah, to organize a Doctoral Research Symposium at UNC's School of Information & Library Science. Eighteen doctoral students presented their research to faculty and fellow students.

08.05.08

Amy presented a paper entitled "Reference Librarians' Personal Theories of Practice: A New Approach to Studying Reference Service" at the Reference Renaissance conference in Denver. Amy also served on the program committee and contributed to a panel on digital reference.

06.30.08

Amy and colleague Hyun-Duck Chung received one of the 2008 Emerald Research Grants for their research on using digital reference transcripts for training. The $5000 award will support their project "Better Business Reference Training: Evaluation of Virtual Reference Transcripts for Subject-Specific Training."