E-Textiles in Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians: 69 - Tapa blanda

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Carli Spina is the Head of Research and Instructional Services at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, an MLIS from Simmons GSLIS, and an M.Ed. in Technology, Education, and Innovation from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She frequently presents, teaches, and writes about a variety of emerging technologies and STEAM topics and their impact on libraries. She has published articles and book chapters about library applications of data dashboards, iBeacons, augmented and virtual reality, web design, gamification, mobile applications, data science, accessibility tools, and Universal Design as well as writing many articles for School Library Journal. Most recently, she co-authored ARL's SPEC Kit 358: Accessibility and Universal Design and an article on social media accessibility in the Marketing Libraries Journal. Her writing has been awarded both the 2018 Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Writing Award for best post on The Hub and the Short Form Division of the 2012 AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers.

She was also a 2012 American Library Association Emerging Leader and a 2013 Harvard Hero. She can be contacted on twitter as @CarliSpina.

Helen Lane is the Instructional Design Librarian at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is responsible for designing digital learning resources, maintaining and enhancing the library’s presence in FIT’s Learning Management System, and outreach and engagement with blended and online courses. Intrinsic to her work is exploring, identifying and providing training in emerging technologies that support teaching, learning, and research goals. As co-director of the MakerMinds events at the FIT library, she has lead workshops on Arduino coding for wearables, sewing with conductive thread, and augmented reality software. She has written articles on a variety of subjects from AR as a library discovery tool to Evidence Based Practice in nursing.

She has previously worked at libraries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Pace University and Columbia University. She holds MLIS from Pratt Institute and a post-graduate certificate in Instructional Design from Open SUNY.