Scholarly Profiles
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Book
M. Heller (2019). Community Technology Projects: Making Them Work. ALA Editions.
Book Chapters
M. Heller and H. Ma (2018). “Setting Our Values as Library Technology Leaders and Women”. In: We Can Do I.T. Women in Library Information Technology. Library Juice Press.
M. Heller and H. Ma (2016). “Collaborative Growth Towards Discovery: Becoming Stronger Through Change”. In: Exploring Discovery. ALA Editions.
Journal Articles
M. Heller and F. Gaede (2016). “Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model for Understanding the Social Justice of Open Access.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 4(General Issue), eP2132. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2132. (Twitter Responses) (Citations)
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, C. Salazar, and M. Yan. How to Hack It as a Working Parent. The Code4Lib Journal, no. 28 (April 15, 2015). (Twitter Responses) (Citations)
Heller, M., & Brooks, M. (2013). Library Labs. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 52(3), 186–190. (Citations)
Book Reviews
2009-present: Reviews for Library Journal on subjects including ecologically sustainable gardening, Roman and Greek history, and Judaism. (Sample Reviews)
Heller, M. (2013). A Review of “Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25(2).
Heller, M. (2013). A Review of “Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works”. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25(1).
Heller, M. (2012). A Review of “Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World”. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24(4).
Heller, M. (2012). A Review of “Strategic Planning for Social Media in Libraries”. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24(3).
Heller, M. (2012). Don’t Make Me Think: a Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (New Riders) by Steve Krug; Information Ecologies: Using Technology With Heart by Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24 (1), 69-69.
Conference Presentations
Heller, M. (2019) What Makes Strong Communities in Digital Humanities Projects. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science. Chicago, IL.
Heller, M. (2017). Creating Welcoming and Ethical Digital Project Communities. DLF Forum, Pittsburgh, PA. osf.io/9szdc
Heller, M (Moderator). (2017) LITA Top Tech Trends, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Heller, M. (2017). Overcoming Impostor Syndrome. American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Heller, M. (2017). We All Live in a Community Submarine. Code4Lib Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Heller, M. and F. Gaede. (2015) Open Access Institutional Repositories and Social Justice: What Kind of Impact Are We Having? DLF Forum, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Heller, M. (2015) All You Want to Know About LibGuides v.2. LIBRAS Public Service SIG, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M., K. Hill & J. Samples. (2015) Post-Conference Workshop 1: Cleaning Up the Metadata Mess with OpenRefine: A Hands-on Approach Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, and M. Yan. (2015) Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You? Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, C. Salazar, and M. Yan. (2015) How to Hack it as a Working Parent. Code4Lib Conference, Portland, Oregon. (Video starts at 39 minutes in) (Slides)
Heller, M. (2015) G is for Gorey—D is for Digital Humanities. ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2014) What Does Your Repository Do?: Calculating and Measuring Impact. LITA Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Slides)
Heller, M. (2014) What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact. Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group. Valparaiso, Indiana.
Heller, M., P. Go & A. Strohm. (2014) Web Analytics for Digital Collections: Appraising Collections and Assessing Impact. Assessment in a Day: IACRL Preconference, Oak Brook, IL.
Heller, M., K. Hill & J. Samples. (2014) Cleaning the Metadata Mess: Using OpenRefine to Transform and Share your Library’s Data. Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, TX.
Heller, M. (2013). Panelist, The Road to Open Access. Chicago Area Theological Libraries Association Fall Conference, Deerfield, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2013) Automating Your Way to Easy Faculty Scholarship Collection Development. Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group. Bloomington, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2012) Creating Web Applications for Data Collection Easily and With the User in Mind. LITA Forum. Columbus, Ohio.
Heller, M. & Brooks, M. (2012). Building a Library Lab for Emerging Technology–No Research Programmers Required. American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, California.
Heller, M. (2012). Social Networking the Catalog: A Community Based Approach to Building Your Catalog and Collection. LITA Webinar, Virtual.
Heller, M., Orlov, A., & Orenic, K. (2012). Creating Pedagogically Meaningful Experiences for Student Workers. Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Oak Brook, Illinois.
Sietmann, C., Hill, J., Wroblewski, J., & Heller, M. (2012). Say You Want an Institutional Repository . Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Oak Brook, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2011.) Model for Building Community Collections. Internet Librarian, Monterey, California.
Gerster, M., Heller, M., Rhoades, K., Sietmann, C., & Zou, N. (2011). The Wider View: The Role of the Library in Accessing Information. 2011 Caritas Veritas Symposium. River Forest, IL.
Heller, M. (2011). Social Networking the Catalog: A Community Based Approach to Building Your Catalog and Collection. LITA National Forum, St. Louis, Missouri.
Heller, M. & Gerlich, B. K. (2011, March). Using the READ Scale to Track the Effort of Assessing Electronic Resource Access Issues. Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Heller, M. & Taylor, N. (2011, February). Chicago Underground Library’s Community-Based Cataloging System. Code4Lib, Bloomington, Indiana.
Heller, M. & Taylor, N. (2011, May). The library catalog as social glue: Using local data to establish relevance, visibility and transparency in communities. Media in Transition 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Heller, M. (2010, June). Research on the Go: Reference in 140 Characters. American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, District of Columbia.
Taylor, N. & Heller, M. (2010, November). Chicago Underground Library’s Community-Based Cataloging System. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2008, February). Is the World Getting Any Smaller? Library 2.0 and International Library Communication. BOBCATSSS, Zadar, Croatia.
Academic Online Writing
Heller, M. (2015). Removing the Truthiness from Google. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=5011 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2015). Educating Your Campus about Predatory Publishers. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=5002 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Trapped in the Glass Cage. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4905 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Migrating to LibGuides 2.0. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4653 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Making Open Access Everyone’s Business. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4739 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). A Short and Irreverently Non-Expert Guide to CSS Preprocessors and Frameworks. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4503
Heller, M. (2014). What Should Academic Librarians Know about Net Neutrality? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4396
Heller, M. (2013). Lightweight Project Management Tools in the Real World. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4237
Heller, M. (2013). Taking a Practical Look at the Google Books Case. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4011
Heller, M. (2013). Revisiting PeerJ. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2912
Heller, M. (2013). What Should Technology Librarians Be Doing About Alternative Metrics? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2569
Heller, M. (2013). Reflections on Code4Lib 2013. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2946
Heller, M. (2013). Revisiting PeerJ. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2912
Heller, M. (2013). Citation Manager Roundup. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3463
Heller, M. (2013). Collecting Data: How Much do We Really Need? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3486
Heller, M. (2013). A Librarian’s Guide to OpenRefine. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3276
Heller, M. (2013). What Should Technology Librarians Be Doing About Alternative Metrics? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2569
Heller, M. (2012). Linked Data in Libraries: Getting into the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group ACRL Tech Connect. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1208
Heller, M. (2012). Creating quick solutions and having fun: the joy of hackathons. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1443 (Cited by Saunders, L., Rozaklis, L., & Abels, E. (2015). Repositioning reference : New methods and new services for a new age.)
Heller, M. (2012). Linked Data in Libraries: Getting into the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group ACRL Tech Connect. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1208
Heller, M. (2012). Lazy Consensus and Libraries. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=391
Heller, M. (2012). Personal Data Monitoring: Gamifying Yourself. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=692
Heller, M. (2012). Real World Semantic Web?: Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=855. (citation)
Samples of College and Graduate School Work
There’s No One Like Moses: Some Problems with Authority Headings in Non-roman Scripts.
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Student paper written for Advanced Cataloging course in 2007.
Original cataloging record
Cataloged for the University of Illinois Residence Hall Library System in 2007.
What Came After Gibbon: Anglo-American Impressions of the Emperor Julian
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Written for Bibliography course in 2007, this bibliography traces nineteenth and twentieth century English language writing about the Roman Emperor Julian.
The Strangest Man That Has Ever Been: Socrates’ Influence on Julian and Kierkegaard
Senior thesis, 111 pp., written in 2006.
Antigone on Campus
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Junior thesis, 44 pp., written in 2005.