Upcoming Presentations
Presenter for the Florida Virtual Campus Professional Development Alliance series (October 9th, 2025)
Zoom Session – Libraries and AI: Combating Misinformation through Information Literacy
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Presenter at the 2025 ASIS&T Virtual Satellite Meeting (December 10-11)
Virtual Poster – Academic Libraries in the Age of AI: The Importance of Information Literacy Education
Past Presentations
Presenter at SUNYLA 2025, Delhi, New York (June 18-20, 2025)
General Session – Improving Library Services for Student Success and Engagement
Presenter at SUNYLA 2025, Delhi, New York (June 18-20, 2025)
General Session – Introduction to AI and Information Literacy
Presenter at ACRL 2025, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 2-5, 2025)
Poster – The Role of Academic Libraries in AI Literacy Education
Presenter at ARL IDEAL 2024, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (July 15-17, 2024)
Lightning Talk – Mentoring of BIPOC Librarians in Academic Libraries: Why it’s Important for Retention and How to Get Started
View presentation information here: https://hdl.handle.net/1807/139230
Co-Presenter at ARL IDEAL 2024, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (July 15-17, 2024)
General Session – Sustainable Practices for the Retention of BIPOC Librarians
Kawanna Bright , Assistant Professor of Library Science , East Carolina University
Ayiana Crabtree , Student Success Librarian, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
View presentation information here: https://hdl.handle.net/1807/139260
Co-Presenter at ASIS&T 2023, London, England (October 27-31, 2023)
Poster – Retaining LIS Professionals of Color: Examining Job Survival Through Survival Analysis
Sunha Kim, Associate Professor – University at Buffalo
Amy VanScoy, Associate Professor – University at Buffalo
Ayiana Crabtree, Graduate Student (MS-ILS) – University at Buffalo
Panelist for an SLA-SCC Career Stories Panel Discussion (August 24, 2023)
https://connect.sla.org/discussion/sla-scc-career-stories-panel-discussion-082423-5-6pm-pt
Co-Presenter at ACRL 2023, Pittsburg, PA (March 15-18)
Do they have a future in LIS? Investigating the difference between BIPOC and white academic librarians’ likelihood to leave the field
Kawanna Bright , Assistant Professor of Library Science , East Carolina University
Ayiana Crabtree , Graduate Student in Information and Library Science , The University at Buffalo
Mónica Colón-Aguirre , Assistant Professor , University of South Carolina
Amy VanScoy , Associate Professor , University at Buffalo
Presenter, “Engaging Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Faculty, Staff, and Students through XR,” Immersive Learning Research Network Annual Conference, Virtual, May 2022.
Co-Presenter with Muhammed El-Sayed and Nefle Nesli Oruc, “The Studio X Karp Library Fellows: Peer-to Peer XR Learning & Engagement,” RIT’s Frameless XR Symposium, Rochester, NY, November 2021.
Awards
Awarded, ALISE Emerging Scholar, August 2024
Awarded, ACRL 2023 Student Conference Scholarship, ACRL, December 2022
Awarded, River Campus Libraries Dean’s Student Library Service Award, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, May 2022
Ayiana Crabtree 