{"id":18733,"date":"2020-07-16T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=18733"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:44:45","slug":"dataflash-citizen-science-in-the-academic-library","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dataflash-citizen-science-in-the-academic-library\/","title":{"rendered":"DataFlash &#8211; Citizen Science in the Academic Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NNLM Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) is hosting a two-part webinar series entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/classes\/citizen-science-academic-library\">Citizen Science in the Academic Library<\/a>&#8221; on July 24th and July 31st.<\/p>\n<p>The two webinars (July 24 and 31) will introduce attendees to citizen science, provide tips and best practices for getting started and sustaining citizen science on campus, and showcase resources that can be integrated into citizen science efforts. Note that Part 1 and Part 2 are one week apart and have separate registrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker bios:<\/strong><br \/>\nMegan Carlton is an assistant professor and the science librarian at UNC Greensboro.\u00a0She holds a bachelor of science in animal science from Middle Tennessee State University and a master\u2019s degree in library and information science from the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Danica Lewis is the Collections &amp; Research Librarian for Life Sciences at the NC State University Libraries. Her recent work has focused on data informed collection development and supporting citizen\u00a0science in academia.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Stanton is an Associate Librarian at Arizona State University where he has worked for over 25 years.\u00a0 He is also affiliated with SciStarter, and has led efforts to introduce citizen science to the public through libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NNLM Middle Atlantic Region (MAR) is hosting a two-part webinar series entitled &#8220;Citizen Science in the Academic Library&#8221; on July 24th and July 31st. The two webinars (July 24 and 31) will introduce attendees to citizen science, provide tips and best practices for getting started and sustaining citizen science on campus, and showcase resources&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dataflash-citizen-science-in-the-academic-library\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236,7,5],"tags":[271,230,270],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen-science","category-public-health-2","category-training-education","tag-academic-libraries","tag-citizen-science","tag-nnlm-mar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}