Staff-Focused Training

2013 to present

Staff have unique needs when it comes to training, and building out training programs for staff has secondary benefits of community development and skills sharing.

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Professional Service and Leadership Positions

  • Member, Libraries Summer Camp Organizing Team. February 2023 to August 2024.
  • Organizer, Duke Libraries Data and Reporting Learning Group. October 2022 to June 2024.
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Visualizing the Future. December 2018 to November 2022.
    Additional team members: Justin Joque (Principal Investigator), Andy Rutkowski (Co-Principal Investigator), and project fellows Negeen Aghassibake, Delores Carlito, David Christensen, Ryan Clement, Sally Gore, Tess Grynoch, Jo Klein, Dorothy Ogdon, Megan Ozeran, Alisa Rod, Cass Wilkinson Saldaña, Matthew Sisk, Amy Sonnichsen.

Projects

Extended Workshop Instruction Experiences

  • Zoss, Angela M. (September 26 and 27, 2019). Data visualization workshop. Half-day workshop for library data professionals at State Library of North Carolina – Library Data Users’ Group, Chapel Hill, NC and Statesville, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (June 1, 2018). Introduction to data visualization. One-day course for library professionals at the Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians, sponsored by North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (April 1, 2017). Introduction to data visualization. One-day course for library professionals at the Data Science and Visualization Institute for Librarians, sponsored by North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. and White, Russ. (September 1, 2016). Introduction to data visualization. One-day workshop at Special Libraries Association Southern California Chapter, Professional Development Day, Long Beach, CA.
  • Joque, Justin, Rutkowski, Andy, and Zoss, Angela M. (June 1, 2016). Making sense of data through visualization. One-day pre-conference program at Annual meeting of the American Library Association, Orlando, FL.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (October 1, 2015). Introduction to data visualization. One-day course for NCSU library staff at North Carolina State University Libraries’ week-long series of data science short courses, Raleigh, NC.
  • Joque, Justin and Zoss, Angela M. (June 1, 2015). Data visualization in the library: Collections, tools, and scalable services. Half-day conference program at Annual meeting of the American Library Association, San Francisco, CA.

Presentations at Conferences, Professional Gatherings

  • Zoss, Angela. (November 8, 2024). Powering up your data work with Excel's PowerQuery. Hands-on workshop at Library Assessment Conference 2024, Portland, OR.
  • Zoss, Angela. (July 22, 2024). Creating basic forms with Microsoft Forms. Hands-on workshop at Duke University Libraries – Libraries Summer Camp, Durham, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela. (July 19, 2024). Practice Presenting to Your Peers. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – Libraries Summer Camp, Durham, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (February 22, 2023). Best practices for making in-person and online instruction accessible. Presentation at Duke University Libraries – Teaching and Learning Program, Durham, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M., Crawford-Smith, Joel. (July 14, 2022). Adventures in Document Accessibility. Hands-on workshop at Duke University Libraries – Libraries Summer Camp, Durham, NC.
  • Grynoch, Tess, Aghassibake, Negeen, Christensen, David, and Zoss, Angela. (June 6, 2022). Teaching data visualization: Adapting the Visualizing the Future data visualization modules for your institutional context. Workshop at IASSIST 2022, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Ogdon, Dorothy, Rutkowski, Andy, & Zoss, Angela M. (November 17, 2020). Visualization in Library Assessment. Webinar at Visualizing the Future Viz and Tell monthly webinar series, virtual.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (January 23, 2020). Reporting 101: Using the Library Data Platform (LDP) for Library Reporting. Presentation and demonstration at 2020 World Open Library Foundation Conference (WOLFCon 2020), College Station, TX.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (August 1, 2019). Data cleaning and manipulation with OpenRefine. Hands-on workshop at Duke University Libraries – Librarians’ Summer Camp, Durham, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (July 31, 2019). Accessibility in Word and PowerPoint. Hands-on workshop at Duke University Libraries – Librarians’ Summer Camp, Durham, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (March 6, 2019). Improving Stakeholder Communication with Data Visualizations. Accepted conference seminar at Designing for Digital (D4D) Conference 2019, Austin, TX.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (March 5, 2019). Tools and Techniques for Scalable Survey Analysis. Accepted conference presentation at Designing for Digital (D4D) Conference 2019, Austin, TX.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (December 14, 2016). Data Visualization Support. Invited webinar at Oklahoma State University Libraries, offered online.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (July 18, 2014). Design and support recommendations from data visualization research. Invited presentation at Science Boot Camp Southeast, Raleigh, NC.
  • Zoss, Angela M. (March 18, 2013). Approaches to Teaching (Data Visualization) Tools. Presentation at Duke Munch & Mull Digital Humanities weekly discussion group, Durham, NC.

Short-form Instruction Experience