Library

Jenny Bodenhamer has worked in libraries for over fifteen years. She has a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma's School of Library and Information Studies and has experience in both academic and public libraries. From 2011 to 2023, she was a Cataloging Librarian at the Metropolitan Library System. From February 2023 to July 2025, Jenny worked as a Digital Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University, focusing on the creation of metadata for electronic theses and dissertations and contributing her aid with OSU's migration to Folio, an open-source library service platform. Now, she is serving as the Assistant Department Head of Digital Services and Discovery Services.

In recent years, she has served the Oklahoma Library Association's Technical Services Roundtable and the Continuing Education Committee in various leadership roles. In this capacity, she has helped update OLA handbooks and forms. Her interests include providing professional development opportunities to OLA members and increasing awareness of OLA's value to our community.

Jenny's mission is to enable librarians and patrons reach their personal education goals. She does this by promoting continuing education programs locally and by making resources accessible and discoverable for people to educate themselves.

Research Interests:

Resource Discoverability, Continuing Education for Librarians, ChatGPT, the Use of AI in LIbrarianship, Metadata, Keyword, Subject Headings

Bonnie stumbled upon a career in public relations after a life-changing afternoon washing dirt. She has worked in communications for 25 years, specializing in education, libraries and the arts. After completing a master’s degree in mass communication, Bonnie became accredited in public relations in 2007. Now, she enjoys mentoring students and sharing her skills and experience with others.

Tracy Caine is a semi-retired professional from Oklahoma City. Before joining the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, he worked as a manufacturer’s representative in the consumer electronics industry, a sales representative and customer relations expert in both the industrial uniform industry and most recently the commercial tire market. Caine’s career in the sales industry provided him the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life and hear generations of individual stories. In his work with the OOHRP, he records and makes accessible the fascinating stories of the people of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. Caine is also a community volunteer, lending his time to several charitable organizations.   

Cristina Colquhoun is the Instructional Design and Online Learning Librarian for Oklahoma State University Libraries. She is an experienced educator and instructional designer and holds a Master of Science in Educational Technology from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies and Psychology from the University of Miami. Cristina is passionate about increasing educational equity and expresses this through her work and scholarship in instructional design, accessible learning design, student data privacy, and open educational resources (OER).

Research Interests:

Accessible learning design, student data privacy, generative artificial intelligence, and open educational resources (OER)

Associate Professor, Assistant Department Head of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA). Skilled in Archives & Archival Studies, Nonprofit Organizations, Higher Education, Educational Technology, Metadata, Digitization, and Library Science. Strong information technology professional with a PhD focused on Oklahoma's Archival History.

Patrick Daglaris is an Associate Professor and Oral History Aarchivist for the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library, where he oversees the collection management and digital preservation of their 2,400+ interviews. He oversees the production of the Amplified Oklahoma podcast in which student interns highlight stories and narrators from the OOHRP collections for broader public consumption. He is interested in the discoverability of audiovisual materials and community engagement by archival institutions and holds a Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists.

Bailey Hoffner is the Metadata Librarian for Digital Resources and Discovery Services at Oklahoma State’s Edmon Low Library. As an adult-diagnosed autistic woman, she is particularly interested in the representation of autistic experience in libraries and library metadata. She is currently working on a Critical Interpretive Synthesis entitled Perceptions and Discourses of Autism in Library and Information Science Literature with international collaborators, and is an advocate for slow librarianship as a radical practice of inclusivity in library work.

Research Interests:

Disability studies and libraries
Autistic and neurodivergent experience of libraries (worker perspective)
Representation of neurodivergence in library literature and library systems

I am an Associate Professor and Head of the Research & Learning Services Department in the Oklahoma State University Libraries. I have a Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Texas State University. I have worked in public and academic libraries since 2008 in a variety of capacities. I serve as the library liaison to History, Political Science, American Indian Studies, and Africana Studies--contact me for assistance finding information and conducting research in those fields. I am interested in Research Information Management Systems, scholarly publishing, open/public access to scholarship, copyright, research data curation & access, programming pedagogy, library instruction, bibliometric analysis, and many other related topics. I routinely provide workshops on a number of technical tools, including data wrangling & visualization in R, LaTeX and Markdown, Git & GitHub, OpenRefine, REST APIs, SQL, tidy data, regex, and others.

Dr. Dani Kirsch is a Research Data Services Librarian in Research & Learning Services at the Oklahoma State University Library. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Southeast Missouri State University and earned a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology at Oklahoma State University. Her doctoral research focused on predator-prey ecology, risk assessment, and reproduction. She has been an avid R user since 2016 and has extensive experience instructing workshops on various topics in R for both novice and intermediate learners.

Research Interests:

In my library work, I am pursuing projects related to assessing research data sharing and reuse, specifically at OSU. In particular, I am interested in locating, extracting, and utilizing scholarly metadata from sources such as DataCite and Wikidata.  My doctoral research was centered in predator-prey ecology, with an emphasis on risk assessment and its impacts on behavior, physiology, and reproduction. My dissertation focused on the perception of risk and safety, chronic and acute risk exposure, and the effects of predation risk exposure timing on freshwater snails. 

Megan Macken is Head, Digital Resources and Discovery Services at Oklahoma State's Edmon Low Library where she works with a variety of systems that support research and learning, including the integrated library system, Folio/EDS, and the institutional repository, Open Research Oklahoma (ORO). Previously she worked as a digital scholarship librarian and digital archivist. She has master's degrees in Library Science and the History of Art from Indiana University. Macken is co-editor of the Art Libraries Society of North America's book review publication, ARLIS/NA Reviews.

Sara Mautino is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She is the art and architecture librarian for Oklahoma State University Libraries.  Since 2021, she has been managing the Cunningham Architecture Library for the OSU School of Architecture. Sara has been a librarian since 2015 when she graduated with her MSLIS from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. The bulk of her librarianship experience has been in K-12 schools. Sara has presented at conferences for the Association of Architecture Librarians & Archivists (AALA), Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), Architecture Librarian's Group of the UK (ArcLib), the Amigos Library Services, the Metadata Justice Symposium, as well as others. In addition to the day-to-day tasks required to operate a university branch library and her responsibilities as a faculty member, Sara focuses her architecture librarianship energies on engaging students from commonly overlooked communities and building a collection that reflects the students, faculty, and staff served by the Cunningham Architecture Library.

Research Interests:

Education Policy
Community Access and Impact in Architectural Education
Impact of librarianship on the student experience

Sarah Milligan is a Professor and Head of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) at the Oklahoma State University Library, where she holds the Hyle Family Endowed Professorship and oversees the production, access, and preservation of the 2,000+ interviews in the OOHRP collection. She has worked extensively in oral history outreach, including providing training for new interview production as well as technical assistance to oral history collection holders throughout the country. Before joining the OOHRP, Milligan was the Administrator for the Kentucky Oral History Commission, managing the KOHC's archive of over 10,000 oral history recordings, a long-standing statewide oral history granting program, and an extensive outreach network. She has also worked as a Folklife Specialist for the Kentucky Folklife Program, producing and mentoring ethnographic fieldwork and on the administrative team for the Kentucky Folklife Festival.

Milligan has expertise in archival preservation and access and is a founding member of the Digital Public Library of America OKHub working group, and the inaugural President for the Oklahoma Archivists Association. Milligan has served on numerous committees for the Oral History Association (OHA), including co-chairing the 2018 Task Force to revise the long standing OHA Principles and Best Practices, and serving on the OHA Council (2018-2022) before serving a rotation of First Vice President - Past President (2023 - 2027). Milligan also serves as the chair of the board of Trustees of Oklahoma Humanities (2023-2026).

Nikhil Motwani is a Research Professional at Oklahoma State University Library, specializing in information systems, server management, and web development. With a Master's degree in Management Information Systems and a background in Computer Science and Engineering, Nikhil brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to his role. His experience spans website development, database management, and server administration, with a particular focus on implementing innovative IT solutions in academic library settings. Nikhil has contributed to scholarly publications in the field of library privacy and data management. In 2019, he was selected for a prestigious National Science Foundation-sponsored Entrepreneurship Program, where he developed business processes and solutions, demonstrating his ability to bridge academic research with practical applications.

Research Interests

• Information Systems in Academic Libraries
• Privacy and Security in Digital Library Systems
• Cloud Computing and Virtualization Technologies
• Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
• Web Technologies and User Experience in Digital Libraries
• Integration of Emerging Technologies in Library Services
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Information Systems
• Project Management Methodologies in IT Implementation
• Cross-functional Collaboration in Technology Projects

Dr. Juliana Nykolaiszyn is the Associate Dean of Library Operations and Puterbaugh Professor of Library Service at the Oklahoma State University Libraries. In this role, she provides leadership for the areas of Access Services, Digital Resources & Discovery Services, Library Systems, and Research & Learning Services. Her research interests span digital collections, discovery layers, oral history, and library management.