Kayla Olson

About
Kayla is the liaison librarian to History, Ethnic Studies, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Philosophy, Special Education, and Marketing. Prior to becoming an academic librarian, she trained as a Roman archaeologist and had the opportunity to dig in both Italy and Cyprus. As a librarian, her professional interests include information literacy instruction, the historical and present role of libraries in knowledge production, and qualitative research support with a special emphasis on supporting students and researchers of humanities and material culture disciplines.

She is also the Engagement Librarian, so she works with her fellow librarians to develop educational programming around topics like information literacy and information cycles, artificial intelligence (Al), and the scholarly communications cycle (e.g. open educational resources (OERs), publishing, and copyright).

Publications, Presentations, and more
Olson, K., 2022. Uncovering Connections: CAQDAS and Tropy for Art Historians and Archaeologists. Visual Resources Association Bulletin, 49(2).

Olson, K Hayslett, M., Bardeen, A. and Olson, K., 2022. An Approach to Supporting Teaching With Data in the Social Sciences. In Handbook of Research on Academic Libraries as Partners in Data Science Ecosystems IGI Global: 1-24.

Olson, K. May 2020. "'Euoi Saboi!': A New Look at the Cosa 'Snake Vessels' [Conference Presentation]." Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-097X

Education
BA, Anthropology & Classics, UW-Milwaukee
MA, Classical Archaeology, Florida State University
MLIS, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill