Introduction
This portfolio is a curated selection, not a comprehensive record of my work or experiences. Each piece of evidence was chosen with intention, reflecting both its relevance and its ability to demonstrate competency mastery. The e-Portfolio was initially created in Squarespace, with evidence hyperlinked to Google Drive and accompanied by descriptive labels for each artifact.
Competency A
Ethics are not abstract ideals separate from professional practice; they are the frameworks that guide how information professionals make decisions, manage risk, and uphold trust. This competency narrative explores how foundational values such as intellectual freedom, confidentiality, accuracy, and responsible stewardship operate across libraries, archives, and corporate information environments. Drawing on academic coursework and applied professional experience, it demonstrates how ethical awareness is embedded in daily information work—from evaluating sources and managing access to navigating intellectual property and rights restrictions in creative asset management.
Competency B
This competency explores how organizational context shapes information practice across corporate, academic, cultural, and governmental settings. Through comparative analysis, I demonstrate how differences in mission, governance, and legal constraints influence access, preservation, and information use. This work highlights the need for adaptability, particularly in environments where intellectual property, risk management, and user needs must be carefully balanced.
Competency C
This competency explores the role of inclusive, user-centered program and service design in library and information science. Through applied research, evaluation projects, and information system redesign, this section demonstrates how thoughtful design decisions can reduce barriers to access and better serve diverse communities.
Competency D
This competency demonstrates my ability to integrate planning, management, marketing, and advocacy to design and sustain effective information services. Through projects in archival policy, programming, and digital engagement, I apply structured workflows and strategic communication to improve access, usability, and visibility. My work reflects a shift from organizing information to actively shaping how it is experienced and valued within an organization.
Competency E
Information retrieval systems determine how information is organized, searched, and accessed within digital environments. Designing and evaluating these systems requires understanding how metadata, indexing, and search interfaces work together to support efficient discovery. In libraries, archives, and digital asset management systems, well-designed retrieval systems ensure that collections remain usable and accessible over time.
Competency F
This reflective e-portfolio entry examines my development of Competency F during my MLIS program at San José State University. Competency F focuses on the selection, evaluation, organization, and preservation of both physical and digital information objects. Through three artifacts—a preservation analysis of silk textiles, a digital photograph preservation project, and a finding aid for a digital animation collection—I demonstrate how these principles guide responsible collection stewardship. Together, these projects illustrate how archival theory and collection management practices support the long-term preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage materials.
Competency G
Information professionals rely on structured systems to organize knowledge so that materials can be discovered, interpreted, and used by specific communities. Standards such as metadata schemas, cataloging frameworks, and controlled vocabularies provide the foundation for this work. These structures allow information to be described consistently while preserving the relationships between records and their historical context. Through my coursework in the MLIS program, I explored how these organizational systems operate within libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. Understanding these standards is essential for ensuring that information remains accessible and meaningful for future users.
Competency H
This essay examines my development of MLIS Competency H: identifying, using, and evaluating emerging information technologies. Through multimedia production, web publishing, and web development, the projects discussed demonstrate how digital tools can support communication, access, and engagement within modern information environments.
Competency J
People rarely ask for exactly what they need, and their questions change as they search. This essay draws on Bates, Kuhlthau, and Duff and Johnson to look at how archivists can shape finding aids, metadata, and reference services around how people actually look for information, including the way researchers so often find what they weren't seeking.
Competency K
Putting a collection online doesn't teach anyone anything. This essay looks at how to design learning for audiences who arrive voluntarily and can leave at any time. It draws on backward design, multimedia learning principles, and Universal Design for Learning, and it's built on my Disney animation video essays, their K-12 activity sets, and a public program proposal around a restored silent film.