June 8, 2026

We're celebrating the achievements of LAUC-I members! The following items (arranged alphabetically by librarian) were self-reported and accomplished during 2025. This content was originally posted on the LAUC-I website. 

Kathryn Anderson (Research and Instruction Law Librarian)

• Kathryn Anderson, The Challenges of Funding California County Law Libraries, 44 LEG. REFERENCE SERVICES Q. 144-176 (June 2025). Authored article exploring the history of the California county law libraries and their funding; the impacts of funding fluctuations and uncertainty on libraries and their communities; and how county law libraries have responded to fiscal challenges.

Anastasia Armendariz (Rare Books & Special Collections Librarian)

• Co-authored an original research article, "Fevered Inheritances: Ethics of Care and Donor Power in Starchives" in 'Archivaria.'
• Presented "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Book & Special Collections Curatorship," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Conference, July 2025.

Carrie Cullen (Research Librarian for Physical Sciences and Systematic Review Librarian)

• Worked with OIT Classroom Technologies to add the Morphic accessibility tool to the standard installation package for all classroom and lab computers on the Irvine campus. 

Wasila Dahdul (Data Curation Librarian)

• Co-authored an original research article:
  Mehrab, K. S., Maruf, M., Daw, A., Neog, A., Manogaran, H. B., Khurana, M., Feng, Z., Altintas, B., Bakis, Y., Campolongo, E. G., Thompson, M. J., Wang, X., Lapp, H., Berger-Wolf, T., Mabee, P., Bart, H., Chao, W.-L., Dahdul, W. M., & Karpatne, A. (2025, June). Fish-Vista: A multi-purpose dataset for understanding & identification of traits from images. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 24275–24285). IEEE.

Jenna Dufour (Visual Arts Librarian)

• Book review of Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer edited by Amos Paul Kennedy. Letterform Archive Books, September 2024. Analytics: 127 downloads; 283 views. 

Audra Eagle Yun (Head of Special Collections & Archives and University Archivist)

• Co-edited a monograph, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series III, Volume 6), published by the Society of American Archivists.

Liz Galoozis (DEIA Strategies Librarian)

• Co-presented with Katherine Kapsidelis (UCLA): "Scaffolded Approaches to Teaching Critical Information Evaluation Skills" at the Conference on the First Year Experience, February 2025.
• Co-presented with Lisa Cheby (CSUN), Cybele Garcia Kohel (CSUN), and Lauren Salerno (formerly Los Angeles Public Library): "Dwelling in Possibility: How Libraries Can Help Your Writing Career," Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, March 2025.
• Co-presented workshop with Julie Adamo (Middlebury College) and Caro Pinto (Mount Holyoke College: "Real Talk in a Brave Space for Job Seekers," Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, April 2025.

Becca Gates (Research Librarian for Health Sciences)

• This past year I completed the Research Training Institute through the Medical Library Association, which culminated with a poster presentation at the annual conference. My research was on health sciences libraries' employees understandings of disability and I collected my data through surveying. My next step is publication!

Sara Heimann (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Librarian)

• As a member of the Business Information Sources Committee of the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) of ALA’s RUSA Division, I served as co-editor of the Outstanding Business Information Sources 2025 column. The column provides reviews of "outstanding" and "notable" business information sources published since May of the previous year.
• I completed six, month-long courses to earn a Certificate in Library Leadership and Management from Library Juice Academy (LJA). Course topics included: leadership communication; implementing and managing organizational change; employee recruitment, retention, and development; and strategic planning.

Danielle Kane (Computational Research Librarian)

• Poster and presentation at WorldCon 2025 as part of their academic track.
  In an infinite number of planets, and in a world where you could wear anything, why do all the librarians look alike? Why do they still wear their hair in a bun? We propose to analyze the text of all novels and novellas of the Hugo nominees and winners from 1939-2024; doing a textual analysis using R to find reference(s) to librarians, libraries and other mentions of research to see how depictions of this important category changes (or not) over time, and how our imaginings of this also evolve.