Service

A list of some of my academic and professional service activities at MacEwan University and externally since I began working at MacEwan University in December 2016.

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MacEwan University Service

General Faculties Council

Member, 2025–

The General Faculties Council (GFC) is MacEwan University’s senior academic governance body. The GFC is responsible for academic standards, integrity, policies and programs, as well as scholarship, research, and creative activities at MacEwan University. The role of the Council and its operations are outlined in its Bylaws. The University President is chair of Council and acts as a conduit between GFC and the Board. In managing the University's academic affairs, the GFC has the powers, duties, and authorities granted to GFC in the Alberta Postsecondary Learning Act (the Act). The GFC meets every month throughout the year except for July and August.

Committee on Scholarly Activity

Member, 2025–

The Committee on Scholarly Activity (the Committee) is established by the General Faculties Council (GFC) under its general authority for academic matters under the Alberta Post-Secondary Learning Act (PSLA). The Committee provides academic research oversight from a cross-program/institutional perspective. It serves as GFC’s primary advisory group on scholarship, understood to include both research and creative activity, and related initiatives, issues, and activities. The Committee meets every month throughout the year except for July and August.

AVP, IT & CIO Search Committee

Member, 2024 (March–April)

The AVP, IT & CIO Search Committee was constituted to interview shortlisted candidates for the position of Associate Vice-President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer at MacEwan University, and to select the winning candidate from the pool of shortlisted candidates. The Committee conducted interviews with shortlisted candidates, and made its recommendation on the preferred candidate to the Vice-President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer.

Student Affairs Tenure and Promotion Committee

Member, 2023–2025

The Student Affairs Tenure and Promotion Committee is the body charged with evaluating and adjudicating on faculty members’ applications for tenure and promotion in Student Affairs at MacEwan University. Tenure applications are reviewed in November, and promotion applications are reviewed in February. I served as an external member on the Committee.

Internal Grants Adjudication Committee

Member, 2023–2026

The MacEwan University Internal Grants Adjudication Committee adjudicates internally funded university-wide grant applications to conduct or transfer knowledge of original scholarship; the Committee provides recommendations for ongoing research funding to the administrator responsible for research to support faculty and student research. The Committee has a series of meetings twice per year to adjudicate internal grant applications.

University Faculty Scholarship Awards Adjudication Committee

Member, 2022–2026

The University Faculty Scholarship Awards Adjudication Committee administers the selection and review of candidates for the Distinguished Research Award and for the title of Board of Governors Research Chair; these awards and titles recognize research and creative excellence of faculty whose scholarship has made significant contributions to society or the scholarly community within local, regional, national, or international contexts. This Committee meets as required by deadlines for applications and nominations, and at the call of the Chair.

True North Science Boot Camp 2022 (TNSBC 2022)

Member of the Organizing Committee, 2021–2022

The 7th annual True North Science Boot Camp was hosted virtually by the John L. Haar Library (MacEwan University Library) at MacEwan University from 10 May 2022 to 12 May 2022, organized around the theme of community-based scholarship. The True North Science Boot Camp (TNSBC) is a professional development event for librarians who support research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Lab Users Group (LUG)

Member, 2021–

The Lab Users Group in an internal academic governance body that gathers the software requirements and manages technology standards for the next academic year for computers in the teaching laboratories, the Library, and the software installed on myApps for remote learning.

Priority Operational and Project Issues (POPI)

Member, 2018–2023

The Priority Operational and Project Issues group was comprised of managers of various MacEwan University IT units, and IT infrastructure and application updates and reporting on issues were provided by the members of this group during meetings. "Library Updates" were a standing agenda item for POPI meetings. This committee met monthly year-round.

ITM Subcommittee for IT Standards Review

Member, 2018–2023

The ITM Subcommittee for IT Standards Review was responsible for reviewing and drafting the set of IT standards that define information technology standards at MacEwan University. This subcommittee usually met twice a month year-round, although there were periods of inactivity.

Information and Technology Management (ITM) Committee

Member, 2017–2023

The ITM Committee oversaw the development and execution of the ITM strategic plan, addressed the alignment of the IT plan with academic and service requirements, informed service levels for technology access and support, and provided oversight on major projects. This committee met monthly throughout the fall and winter terms.

External Service

NEOS Digitizing for Accessibility Working Group

Member, 2021–2024

NEOS was the consortium of academic and special libraries in the greater Edmonton area that shared a catalog and an integrated library system (ILS). The NEOS Digitizing for Accessibility Working Group worked to make some NEOS member institutions Qualifying Authorities with the Internet Archive, which then allowed these Qualifying Authorities to provide access to certain Internet Archive resources to individuals with print disabilities, such as blind, low vision, and dyslexic users. As well, the NEOS Digitizing for Accessibility Working Group members could scan copyright-approved print items and contribute these scanned electronic resources with reformatting and remediation to the Internet Archive’s collections.

NEOS Discovery Committee

Member, 2020–2023

NEOS was a consortium of academic, government and health libraries in the greater Edmonton area, who collaborated to share a catalog and integrated library system, and worked together on learning initiatives, document delivery, and a range of core library activities; MacEwan University Library was a member of the NEOS Library Consortium. The NEOS Discovery Committee facilitated communication, planning, and technical support between all NEOS libraries with respect to discovery systems, discovery services, and discovery layer infrastructure.

Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC), Training Interest Group

Member, 2018–2024

Under the auspices of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG), CWAC was an initiative to develop an inclusive web archiving community of practice within Canadian archives, libraries, and other cultural memory institutions.

Guest lectures at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta

Lecturer, 1999–

In an ongoing external service commitment that I have been engaged with annually since 2013 (and first began in 1999), I have delivered a guest lecture and facilitated an accompanying hands-on workshop in the class LIS 597: Advanced Scholarship and Research in LIS, at the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS). My involvement with guest lecturing at SLIS in LIS 597, and LIS 505: Research Methods for Library and Information Studies, dates to 1999.