Interviews

• “Libraries, ‘Democracy’, and Intellectual Freedom”, Organizing Ideas, Episode 24, April 20, 2020
• “Politics of Librarianship”, SHOUT for Libraries, September 29, 2019
• “Politics of Libraries”, No Librarians Allowed, Episode 3, April 1, 2018
• “Politics in the Library”, SHOUT for Libraries, s01e04, January 20, 2017

Presentations

• “Intellectual Theory and John Rawls’ Theory of Justice”, Open Ideas, December 14, 2020.
• “Intellectual Freedom, Academic Freedom, and the Politics of Recognition”, NEOS Miniconference, June 5, 2020.
• “Introduction to Machine Learning Using Ruby”, Code4LibYEG, July 5, 2019.
• “Big Data, Class Composition, and the Multitude”, Canadian Political Science Association annual conference, Vancouver, June 4, 2019.
• “Libraries, Labour, and the Strike,” 1919-2019: Building a Better World: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, Winnipeg, May 9, 2019.
• “Two Ways of Looking at Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from Italian Marxism”, Open Ideas conference, University of Alberta, April 5, 2019.
• “Exploring Critical Librarianship”, OCULA Webinar (with Karen Nicholson), February 28, 2019.
• “Libraries and Democracy: A Critique”, Ontario Library Association, Toronto, January 31, 2019.
• “Labour, Solidarity, and Libraries”, Panel (with Jennifer Dekker and John Fink), CAPAL Conference, May 30, 2018.
• “Theory as Material Force: Marxism and the Challenge of Academic Librarianship”, CAPAL Conference, May 29, 2018.
• ““Agents of change”: Books and Marxist theories of history and technology”, Bibliographic Society of Canada, May 28. 2018.
• “Building Websites with GitHub Pages and Jekyll”, Code4Lib Edmonton Workshop, May 25, 2018.
• “What Marx Can Tell Us About Climate Change”, Rebel Knowledge 2018, Guelph University, February 11, 2018.
• “Embracing Anarchy? A Code4LibYEG Retrospective”, with Lydia Zvyagintseva and Dana Ouellette. Netspeed, October 4, 2017.
• “Beyond the Boolean: Modern Algorithms for Search and Discovery”, Netspeed, Edmonton, October 3, 2017.
• “The Teaching Factory, or, the Reserve Army of Academic Librarianship”, Precarious Academic Labour in the Age of Neoliberalism, Okanagan College, Kelowna, May 5 & 6, 2017.
• “Libraries and the State: A Discussion of Complicity and Dual Power”, SLIS Research Colloquium, November 16, 2016.
• “Linked Open Data”, Edmonton Open Data Summit, October 15, 2016.
• “Building presentations with Reveal.js and Markdown”, Code4LibYEG Workshop Day, June 17, 2016.
• “Open Source Discovery Systems and Blacklight”, invited talk, Ryerson University, May 11, 2016.
• “Blacklight and Open Source Software”, SLIS 598, April 4, 2016.
• “Library IT Ecosystem”, invited talk, SLIS Brown Bag series, with Jason Harris, February 10, 2016.
• “Coding: Between Hacking and Engineering”, Digital Scholar’s Student Group inaugural meeting, University of Alberta, January 21, 2016.
• “Functional Programming with Clojure”, Code4LibYEG Unconference, November 5-6, 2015.
• “Coding and Humanism”, Digital Pedagogy Institute, Toronto, August 20, 2015.
• “Virtual Collaboration: Tips and Tricks for Working Together at a Distance Access”, with Sarah Simpkin, Access Conference, Toronto, September 10, 2015.
• “Using the Twitter API”, Code4LibYEG API Hackfest, Edmonton, July 17, 2015.
• “International Partnership in Vietnam: Experiences and Lessons”, NEOS Miniconference, Macewan University, June 12, 2015.
• “Friction and Mystery: Open-Source Software and Information Literacy”, ILPalooza, Macewan University, April 23, 2015.
• “Keynote: Open-Source Adoption and Technological Capacity Building in Libraries”, AAAL Fall Meeting, November 20, 2014.
• “Inside-Out Discovery”, Netspeed, Calgary, October 16, 2014.
• “Taking Control of Discovery: In-house development to improve student experience and break down silos”, with Sonya Betz, Access Conference, Calgary, October 1, 2014.
• “Moving to Open-Source: Agility, Automation, Collaboration”, Manitoba Library Association Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2014.
• “Configuration Management and Deployment Tools”, Code4Lib North, London, Ontario, May 2014 (with John Fink, Digital Scholarship Librarian, McMaster University).
• “Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Systems”, Indian Library Association Conference, Roorkee, India, February 2014.
• “Trends in Library Discovery”, University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies SLIS 536, February 2014.
• “APIs and Web Services in Library Systems”, University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies SLIS 598, January 2014.
• “Sinatra: A Lightweight Ruby Web-Framework”, Code4Lib Lightning Talks, Edmonton, November 2013
• “Librarians, Hackerspaces and participating in Open-Source Projects”, Netspeed, Calgary, October 2013.
• “Interoperability with Blacklight, EDS, and Fedora”, Access Conference, St John’s, September 2013.
• “Discovery and the Library Collection”, Brown Bag Presentation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, August 2013.
• “Linked Data and The Future of Discovery Services”, APLUA Presentation, University of Alberta, Edmonton 2012.
• “Hackerspaces: The Cathedral vs. The Bazaar”, Common Space: Creating Community in Public Places. PLG Panel, Edmonton Public Library, Edmonton, April 2012.
• “Discovery Systems and Services”, NEOS Discovery Workshop. Concordia University College, Edmonton, April 2012.
• “Music, Identity, and Memory in Tarkovsky’s Mirror”, International Conference on Music in Russia and the Soviet Union: Reappraisal and Rediscovery. Durham, UK, July 2011.

Recorded Talks

Libraries and IT (Panel). 2016 Access Conference.

Ignite Talks. 2016 Access Conference.

“Virtual Collaboration: Tips and Tricks for Working Together”, with Sarah Simpkin, University of Ottawa. 2015 Access Conference.

“Coding, Humanism, Pedagogy”, from the 2015 Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Toronto - Scarborough.

“Interoperability with Blacklight EDS and Fedora”, from the 2013 Access Conference.