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Education

  • 2010-2012: Master of Library and Information Studies, University of British Columbia
  • 2004-2010, Bachelor of Arts, Honors Double Major, Psychology; Science in Society, York University

Professional Positions

2022 — Current: Department Co-Chair, Librarians’ Department, Thompson Rivers University

  • Responsible for collegially coordinating the work of the faculty librarians within the Librarian’s Department, especially in relation to work assignments, tenure and promotion, performance, professional development, strategic planning, governance, and other academic issues.
  • Work with the University Librarian and other members of administration to resolve issues and plan for the future, especially in relation to budgets, human resources, and facilities.
  • Chair the Workload Committee, which is responsible for assigning work to faculty librarians and planning to ensure adequate coverage on a three-year rolling timeline. Initiated a new model for planning faculty work and a teams-based approach to assigning liaison support after recognizing that individual-liaison assignments were no longer sustainable.
  • Provide annual feedback to faculty librarians as set out in the Collective Agreement. Provide mentorship and support to colleagues. Chair and sit on other committees, such as sabbatical committees, as necessary.
  • Started and lead a mentorship group of colleagues who oversee library technicians to discuss best practices for leadership and team building.

2021 – Current: Makerspace Librarian, Thompson Rivers University

  • Developed the TRU Library Makerspace as a vibrant active-learning space with a focus on hands-on learning, experimentation, and inclusivity. Makerspace started as a pilot project in a group study room in 2000 and is now a 7-room staffed space with over 2000 users a month that includes textiles, media production, 3D design and fabrication, virtual reality, crafting, and more.
  • Responsible for policy, curriculum, budgets, training, equipment and supply purchasing and maintenance, communications, and all other aspects of the space.
  • Lead the Operations Team, which includes 4 library technicians. Our team works collaboratively to run the space and plan for the future. As the faculty member responsible for Makerspace I oversee all aspects of the space and provide training and mentorship, but the Library Technicians are experts in their work and I strive to give them autonomy and lead the Team collaboratively.
  • Lead a team of 5 student ambassadors who support users in the space by providing tours, orientations, and help users troubleshoot issues.
  • Work with faculty from across campus to integrate curriculum into the space with a focus on ensuring a fit with the pedagogy and purpose of the space.
  • Oversee all teaching in the space, including tours, workshops, and events.
  • Highlights
    • Received a campus Sustainability Grant to implement a tool library, a donation-based fiber bank, and create outreach and educational material to support sustainability-related activities and programming in the space.
    • Partnered with the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) to develop a bi-annual competitive grant of up to $2000 for faculty to explore integrating the Makerspace or making-type activities into their classes.
    • Currently conducting research to understand the use of the Makerspace by users, in collaboration with our staff, student researchers, and our Assessment Librarian.
    • Developed the TRU Library Makerspace. Worked with various campus stakeholders and used structured feedback activities to create a shared vision that centred diversity, experiential education, and cross-campus partnerships. Defined goals, outcomes, budgets, timelines, and deliverables. Supervised staff and student assistants. Designed space, selected equipment, oversaw purchasing, set-up, and training of staff.
    • Worked with a graduate student researcher conducting their thesis project to facilitate online focus groups to ensure the space is diverse and programming meets authentic user needs.
    • Initiated, planned, and operated a pilot makerspace in 2020 to explore campus needs and service models for a service providing equitable access to technology that resulted in funding for the permanent Makerspace.

2019 – 2022: STEM Librarian, Thompson Rivers University

  • Liaison to Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Trades, and Technology.
  • Supported the teaching, learning, and research activities of faculty, students, and staff by providing expertise related to information literary, research, scholarly communication, and collection development.
  • Supported multiple knowledge synthesis research teams conducting systematic and scoping reviews.
  • Piloted a “Programming & Pizza” event that brough students and faculty with technology and programming questions together with staff from IT and other service units that have that expertise.
  • Member of planning committee for the annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Helped plan conference structure, evaluate student proposals, support student speakers, and moderate student presentations and panels.
  • Mentored two librarians at other institutions through monthly calls to discuss career goals and professional development opportunities.

2014 – 2019: Bio-medical Librarian, Bio-Medical Library, University of Minnesota

  • College of Pharmacy Liaison Librarian
    • Supported the education and research activities of students, faculty, and researchers.
    • Collaborated with faculty to design and directly teach 15 hours of active-learning curriculum about evidence-based practice across the 4 years of the Doctor of Pharmacy program.
    • Consulted with approximately 100 Doctor of Pharmacy and graduate students a year on issues related to research and clinical care.
    • Served on the Delphi Panel for Evidence-Based Medicine, an expert panel formed to define milestones in EBP skill progression.
    • Served on the Management Team for the open access journal “Innovations in Pharmacy” and led the journal through the process of being accepted for indexing in PubmedCentral and developing workflows for indexing.
  • Research Support
    • Developed training programs for researchers and research support staff focused on increasing the reproducibility in science.
    • Proposed and ran a pilot project to teach computational methods to graduate students through Software Carpentry workshops. Based on the success of the pilot chaired a committee charged with implementing ongoing workshops at the University of Minnesota with funding from the University Libraries, the Office for the Vice President for Research, and the Graduate School. Led initial implementation of the project.
    • Led support for MN-REACH, a three-year, $6 million-dollar, NIH grant to support research commercialization. Headed a team of 4 library staff providing embedded support for teams seeking to commercialize health-science research. Led a Working Group to develop a plan to support innovation and commercialization across campus.
    • Partnered with faculty on a successful NIH Supplementary Training Grant to teach Quality Assurance and Reproducible Methods to graduate students from the basic sciences.
    • Led an evaluation of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) for four health science laboratories. Led a working group investigating support for ELNs at other major American research institutions.
    • Participated and helped plan workshops and training events for graduate students, faculty, and research labs on aspects of research data management, reproducibility, and computational methods.
    • Participated in collaborative research sprint activities meant to support rapid research progress on digital humanities and similar projects.
    • Attended multiple NIH Hackathons to develop functional software, including as Team Lead on a group building software to create topic models for Medline literature and to automate search string creation for systematic reviews.

2012 – 2014: Liaison Librarian, Woodward Library, University of British Columbia (UBC)

  • Liaison to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the School of Dentistry, and the Faculty of Medicine.
  • Supervised a team of 8 Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) students who provided reference, instruction, and research support. Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, supervising, scheduling, and evaluating students.
  • Coordinated an ongoing workshop series taught by librarians and graduate assistants on topics related to information literacy for UBC’s Science Library.
  • Designed and delivered instructional sessions to more than 2000 students, researchers, and faculty members in over 50 sessions on topics ranging from using specific databases to conducting systematic reviews, including curriculum-embedded sessions and workshops.
  • Provided in-depth and ongoing research consultations to faculty members, students, researchers, and research groups in the health sciences.
  • Worked on issues related to collection development, instruction, reference, research support, and scholarly communication.
  • Served on committees and working groups related to assessment and web content.

2012: Librarian, Centre for Health Care Management, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

  • Maintained a portal of open-access material related to health care management, benchmarking, and quality improvement.

Service and Professional Contributions (Select)

Thompson Rivers University

  • 2023 – Current, Member, Librarians’ Department Program Review Team,
  • 2023 – Current, Vice-Chair, University Library Divisional Council
  • 2023 – Current, Treasurer, Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association
  • 2022 – Current, Co-Chair, Librarians’ Department
  • 2022 – Current, Chair, Librarians’ Department Workload Committee
  • 2022 – Current, Member, Appointments Committee, Librarians’ Department
  • 2020 – Current, Elected Representative, Disability Management and Rehabilitation Committee, Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association
  • 2022, Member, Tenure and Promotion Panel, CELT Tenure and Promotion information sessions
  • 2020 – 2021, Faculty Representative, Senate Academic Integrity Committee
  • 2019 – 2022, Member, Librarian’s Workload Committee
  • 2019 – 2021, Project Lead, TRU Library Makerspace Development Team
  • 2019 – 2021, Member, Library Inclusion, Diversity & Accessibility (IDA) Committee
  • 2019 – 2021, Library Representative, Senate Educational Policy Committee

University Libraries, University of Minnesota

  • 2018 – 2019, Chair, Software Carpentry / Hackathon Pilot Planning Group
  • 2017 – 2019: Member, Day of Data Planning Committee
  • 2015 – 2019, Member, Cochrane Urology Group
  • 2015 – 2019, Member, Innovations in Pharmacy (Open Access Journal) Management Team
  • 2015 – 2019, Member, DASH (Digital Arts, Sciences, and Humanities) Expert Group
  • 2016 – 2018, Member at Large, Librarian Committee
  • 2015 – 2018, Co-Chair, Commercialization Working Group
  • 2015 – 2018, Member, Minnesota Electronic Health Library (MeHL) Committee
  • 2015 – 2018, Project Lead, Library Support for MN-REACH (NIH Minnesota Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub)
  • 2016 – 2017, Member, Quality Assurance Research Reproducibility Collaborative (QuARRC) – NIGMS T32 Administrative Supplement Grant
  • 2015 – 2016: Member, Facilities and Resources sub-committee of the PharmD Accreditation Committee
  • 2015 – 2017, Member, Personal Information Management (PIM) Group
  • 2015 – 2016, Member, Libraries Academic Professional and Administrative Committee
  • 2015 – 2016, Member, UL350/UL351 Search Committee
  • 2015 – 2016, Member, Space Planning Committee

Woodward Library, University of British Columbia

  • 2012 – 2014, Member, Research Help Portal Working Group
  • 2013 – 2014, Member, LibQUAL Advisory Committee

Services to Professional Organizations

Community

2014, Maker Camp Organizing Committee

  • Worked with the Vancouver Maker Foundation, UBC Applied Science, and UBC Physics, to develop a free, weeklong science camp for elementary students.

2013-2014, Library Outreach Chair, Vancouver Maker Foundation

  • Acted as a liaison between the library community and the local Maker community.

Awards and Grants

  • 2023 – Current, Sustainability Grant, Thompson Rivers University
  • 2017: UMN Informatics Institute Updraft Grant: HACKathons for Efficiency and Reproducibility in Sciences (HACKERS)
  • 2017, NIH Supplementary Training Grant, Quality Assurance Research Reproducibility Collaborative
  • 2017, JoVE Librarian Travel Award
  • 2016, Sewell Scholarship to attend the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting

Contributions to the Profession

Conference Presentations

  • Makerspaces as learning spaces: implications for your learners — Teaching Practices Colloquium, (2022, Kamloops) – Presentation – Franklin Sayre & Diane P. Janes, TRU
  • Reproducibility Guidelines and Medical Librarians: Adapting Expertise, Transforming Services, Leading Change — Medical Library Association Annual Meeting (2018, Atlanta) — Presentation — Franklin Sayre & Amy Riegelman
  • Open Science and the Grand Challenge of Making Research Available to the Public – Advancing Publicly — Advancing Publicly Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning to Address Society\’s Grand Challenges (2017, Minneapolis) — Presentation – Amy Riegelman & Franklin Sayre
  • Librarians Leading the Way to Improved Research Reproducibility – Charleston Conference (2017, Charleston) — Panel Discussion – Franklin Sayre, Lutishoor Salisbury, Cynthia Thomes, Moshe Pritsker
  • The Reproducibility Crisis And The Role of Academic Libraries – Minnesota Library Association (MLA) — Academic and Research Library Division (ARLD) Day Conference (2017, Minneapolis) — Presentation Franklin Sayre, and Amy Riegelman
  • For Fun and Profit: Supporting Research Commercialization with Interdisciplinary Liaison Teams – Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biannual Conference (2017, Baltimore) – Paper Presentation – Franklin Sayre, Caroline Lilyard, and Mary Schoenborn
  • The Reproducibility Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges for Academic Librarians — Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biannual Conference (2017, Baltimore) – Roundtable Discussion * Franklin Sayre, Vicky Steeves (New York University), and Eka Grguric (NCSU)
  • 10,000 Workflows: A Community-Centered Approach to Personal Information Management — Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biannual Conference (2017, Baltimore) – Poster Presentation – Megan Kocher, Kristi Bergland, Carolyn Bishoff, Amy Claussen, Jody Kempf, and Franklin Sayre
  • Where in Academia Are ELNs? Support for Electronic Lab Notebooks at Top U.S. Research Universities — Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biannual Conference (2017, Baltimore) – Poster Presentation – Franklin Sayre, Caitlin Bakker, Lisa Johnston, Megan Kocher, Meghan Lafferty, and Julie Kelly
  • Instilling a Rational and Methodical Approach to Acquiring Information to Answer Well-Constructed Questions – American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual meeting (2016, Anaheim) — Shannon Reidt, Pharm.D., MPH, Franklin Sayre, MLIS,  Jen Chen, Pharm.D.,  Karen Bastianelli, Pharm.D., Sara Sobota
  • Assessing Information Resource Access and Habits Among Pharmacists – American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Annual meeting (2016, Anaheim) — Poster – Sayre, Franklin D; Reidt, Shannon; Harwood, Eileen M; Jolowsky, Christene; Lunos, Scott; Rodriguez, Raquel
  • Implementing a Longitudinal Evidence-Based Medicine Sequence for Pharmacy — Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Conference (2016, Toronto) — Paper Presentation – Franklin Sayre
  • Evaluating Electronic Lab Notebooks for Health Science Research Laboratories — Medical Library Association (MLA) Annual Conference (2016, Toronto) — Lightning Talk — Franklin Sayre

Invited Presentations

  • Towards Minimal Reporting Standards for Preclinical Biomedical Research — Enhancing Scientific Reproducibility in Biomedical Research Through Transparent Reporting Workshop – September 2019 – Washing DC – Panel – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  • Helping Science Succeed: The Librarian’s Role in Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis — Medical Library Association Professional Development Webinars – Medical Library Association – Webinar – Franklin Sayre, Am Riegelman, February 2019
  • Incorporating Research Quality Assurance into MD/PhD and PhD Research Training — 5th World Conference on Research Integrity – May 2017, Amsterdam — Presentation – Rebecca Davies, Christina Petersen, Katrina Laube, Caitlin Bakker, Franklin Sayre, Yoji Shimizu
  • Space as Service: Transforming Library Spaces To Support Curriculum in The College of Pharmacy and the Academic Health Center – Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLiC), April 2016
  • Getting Hired in Higher Education Panel — Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS), British Columbia Library Association (BCLA), February 2014

Papers (peer reviewed)

  • Association of CYP2B6 genetic polymorphisms with bupropion and hydroxybupropion exposure: A systematic review and meta-analysis. – 2022 – Pharmacotherapy. Eum S, Sayre F, Lee AM, Stingl JC, Bishop JR.
  • Replicable Services for Reproducible Research — 2018 – College & Research Libraries, preprint ahead of publication, article — Franklin Sayre and Amy Riegelman – https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16993
  • US Government Resources Related to Research Rigor and Reproducibility — 2018 — *Documents to the People –Alicia Kubas, Amy Riegelman, Franklin Sayre – http://hdl.handle.net/11299/200547
  • Support for Electronic Lab Notebooks at Top American Research Universities — 2018 — Journal of eScience Librarianship – Franklin Sayre, Caitlin Bakker, Julie Kelly, Megan Kocher, and Meghan Lafferty

Papers (not peer reviewed)

  • The Reproducibility Crisis and Academic Libraries —College & Research Libraries, 79(1), 2. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.79.1.2, Guest Editorial — Franklin Sayre and Amy Riegelman
  • For Fun and Profit: Supporting Research Commercialization with Interdisciplinary Liaison Teams — Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Biannual Conference (2017, Baltimore) Paper Presentation – Franklin Sayre, Caroline Lilyard, and Mary Schoenborn

Books Chapters

  • Supporting Reproducible Research — 2023 (In Press) — In Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge, (edited by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will Cross) – Hayden, G., Mentnech, T., Rampin, V., & Sayre, F.
  • Building, Sustaining, and Growing Multidisciplinary, Multi-Departmental Partnerships to Teach Open Science Tools — 2022 — In N. Mani, & M. Cawley (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Academic Libraries as Partners in Data Science Ecosystems – IGI Global – Hennesy, C., Bakker, C., Dunn, N. J., Naughton, D., Sayre, F., & Traill, S. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9702-6.ch009

Other

  • TRU You Got This Podcast — Get Your Hands Dirty: Makerspaces in Academia (Interview) https://yougotthis.trubox.ca/podcast/episode-32-get-your-hands-dirty-ft-franklin-sayre/
  • Makerspace Continuity Survey: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1apCQ8oSztQZdvE4dwVFsGA35ejKgkFS2/view
  • How to Run a Free Online Conference: A Workbook – Franklin Sayre, Tisha Mentnech, Amy Riegelman, Vicky Steeves, Shirley Zhao
  • Reproducibility Bibliography: Reproducibility Guidelines and Disciplinary Examples (website — co-creator and editor) – http://reproducibility.dash.umn.edu/ (Defunct)

Professional Development (Select)

  • TRU Chair Leadership & Development Conference, June 13-15, TRU
  • Learning from the Land Retreat, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Wells Gray Education & Research Cente, May 30 – June 1
  • #critlead: Practicing critical librarianship from positions of power, Library Juice Academy, 2022
  • Emerging Leaders Program, Thompson Rivers University, Kanmloops, 2021-2022
  • Library Carpentry Instructor Certification, The Carpentries, Calgary, 2018
  • NCBI Hackathon, Project Lead, Automating Systematic Reviews, 2018
  • NY Genome Center Hackathon, Member, Hackathon Education Group, 2017
  • Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization (MOOC from UC San Diego), 2015
  • Systematic Reviews: Opportunities for Librarian, 2014
  • Systematic Review Workshop. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2014.
  • Instructional Skills Workshop. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2013.
  • Statistics for Health Librarians. British Columbia Health Libraries Association, Vancouver, 2013.
  • Finding Pharmaceutical Information. Medical Library Association, Seattle, 2012