It’s been a little over four years since my last update. While I know some people who kept posting, or forced themselves to, for me it was important that I prioritize other things. Much of my time has focused around my, and my family’s, physical and mental health, moving, work, cleaning, more work, fixing things, and trying to support others to the best of my abilities. I had hoped to put out an update this summer but due to ridiculous rate hikes by my previous website host, I ended up having to move my entire website. This took quite a bit of research and back and forth with tech support as I didn’t have the funds to pay someone to do the move for me. The biggest part of the move was going through every post and page and fixing all the errors that crept in due to changes in how websites are coded. To add to the labor of moving the site, the move also destroyed most of my image descriptions, but not in a consistent manner so I’ve had to go back through and manually refresh, or in some cases retype, every image description on every page. If I missed an image description please let me know. All this moving and updating took all the time I’d hoped to spend in updating this website.
What has Kiyomi been up to?
This is an excellent question. It feels like yesterday and forever ago that the pandemic started in 2020. Since then many projects and activities have been delayed, canceled, or revised. I don’t know how I accomplished anything, but eventually, by sequencing things so that at any given moment I only had to think about what was in front of me I made progress. Last year my husband had surgery and I took quite a bit of time off to deal with that. I also took the time to work through the formal ADA accommodation process. I’ve always been fortunate to be accommodated by my supervisors as needed without a formal plan. To ensure that doesn’t change in the future I decided to work through the process while I knew I had a supportive supervisor. I’ll expand upon this more in an upcoming book chapter, but please know that being in pain should not be a daily thing, seriously go to your healthcare professional. Physical and occupational therapy can help alleviate many different types of pain even if, like me, the root cause is not completely understood.
Obligatory list of accomplishments since late 2019
Here are some of the things I’ve been up in the last 4years.
- Disability Community and Advocacy, Facilitator 2023- present
- Huarez, A. H. (2023). Supportive Management for People with Disabilities with Katelyn Manwiller, Kiyomi Deards, & Samantha Peter. Library Leadership Podcast.
- Huarez, A. H. (2023). How to Be Generous Without Being a Doormat with Kiyomi Deards & Leo Lo. Library Leadership Podcast.
- Hoeve, C., & Deards, K. (2023). How Libraries are Funded: Transparency Issues in Student Tuition and Fees Among ARL Libraries. Journal of New Librarianship, 8(1), 155–165.[Effort: Planning, Writing, Analysis, and Editing 50%].
- Chair of the Libraries Faculty, 2022-2023
- Deards, K., & Puente, M. A. (2020). Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Libraries: Programs and Methodologies to Consider. Research Library Issues, 301, 43–70. [Effort: Planning, Writing, and Analysis 60%; Editing 80%].
- Deards, K. D., Frerichs, S. W., Hill, P. W., & McQuillan, J. (2020). What Help Do Faculty Perceive Is Needed to Improve their Community Engagement through Outreach? Big Ideas Seed Grants: Planning Grant, UNL: Nebraska Center for Educational Science Outreach. [Effort: Planning 35%; Initial Draft 20%; Editing 60%].
- Manwiller, K., Peter, S., & Deards, K. (2022). Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Culture: Supportive Management for People with Disabilities. Conference on Academic Library Management (CALM). [Refereed]. [Effort: Planning, Creation, Presenting 33%].
- Hoeve, C., & Deards, K. (2022). Creating a Popular Science Collection to Support Interest, Research, and Curriculum Support at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Pop Culture Association Annual Conference 2022. [Effort: Planning, Creation, Presenting 33%]
- Deards, K., & Lo, L. (2022). Planning Your Impact. MILEX (Maryland Information Literacy Exchange) June Meeting. [Invited]. [Effort: Planning, Presenting 50%].
- Hodge, T., Castañeda, A. M., Deards, K., & Hohl, C. (2022). Job Hunting from a Hiring Perspective. SoCLIS (Students of Color in LIS at the University of Washington) Career Night. [Invited]. [Effort: Handout 50%; Panel 25%].
- Deards, K., & Checco, J. (2022). CHEM 835/435 Chemical Biology. CILC (Creating Informed Learners in the Classroom) Symposium. [Invited].[Effort: 20% Content; Creation of Slides 100%] (Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic; deposited with the CILC project.)
- Deards, K. (2022). Communicating Science with Little (or No) Budget: Design Rules and Tricks for the Non-Artist. American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, Division of Chemical Information, Scientific Visualizations & Creative Presentations. [Invited].
- Deards, K. (2021). DEIR (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Respect) in Chemistry Libraries. Fostering, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect in the Chemistry Community. [Presenter]. [Invited].
- Tetrault, P., & Deards, K. (2021). What Can You Do? Ally Development. OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute). UNL, Lincoln, NE. [Online class.][Effort: Updating and Expanding Materials 100%, Teaching 50%].
- Fellow, FLAIR (Faculty Leadership in Academia: From Inspiration to Reality), UNL, 2020
