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overview
- Soph is a queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and trans Medical Librarian, Speaker, Writer, and Creative. With personal and professional experience in the health sciences, they work to overcome systemic inequities with their words and actions.
Positions
- Library Asst Professor, Laupus Library Administration, Laupus Library
- Contact Info
Soph Myers-Kelley
Overview
Affiliation
member of
Publications
selected publications
presentations
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presentation
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Antibiotics for a Toothache? How Dentistry fuels Resistance and How Nanomedicine could turn thetide
, CORAS 2026 -
Donor Weight Criteria in US Body Donation Programs: Website Analysis, Results, & Next Steps
, Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Conference -
Review Zoo Expert Review Types & Steps: A Decision Support Tool
, ECU Libraries Staff Development Day -
The Impact of Study Abroad Experiences on Professional Practice Competencies in Graduate Students: A Systematized Review
, College of Allied Health Sciences Research Day 2026 - An Ally is an Activist is an Advocate: An LGBTQIA+ Panel Discussion & Workshop, MLA 2024
- Donor Weight Criteria in US Body Donation Programs: Website Analysis, Results, & Next Steps, MLA 2024
- Self-reflections on our literature search: Creation and utility of a Literature Search Best Practices Guide for librarians, MLA 2024
- My Favorite Tool 2024 , Technology & Education Caucus MLA
- Academic Libraries Panel Series - Panel #2: Tips for Landing a Job After Library School
- A Library Guide for Anti-Racist Research: Development, Evolution, and Reflection, MLA Conference
- Beyond the Binary
- DEI Committee's Living Library, MLA
- Disability Visible: A Book Discussion Panel, Experience MLA
- Disability in the Library Panel, MLA Conference
- Living Library, MLA 2024
- Navigating medical services when Autistic: Soph Myers-Kelley educates Aucademy, Aucademy
- Redefining Professionalism Roundtable Discussion, Experience MLA
- Redefining Professionalism: Reflection on What Professionalism Looks Like in 2023, MLA/SLA 23 Conference
- The Disability Movement and You! (and your students!), Annual Student Success Conference
- The Problem with ABA Treatment: Autism Conversion Therapy & Medical Librarianship, Neurodiversity in the Library: Building Better for Staff & Students Conference (OCULA)
- You Don't Look Sick: Invisible Disabilities; A Panel Discussion with HCBC
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Service
professional service activities
- Graphic Medicine Review for Stardust Family https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comic-reviews/stardust-family-2/ 2025
- Living Library MLA Was a book for MLA's Living Library event 2025
- Past-Chair of LGBTQIA+ Caucus Advisory role 2023 - 2024
- 2024 GMIC Awards 2023 - 2024
- Library Mock Interviews- MLA Student Round Table Interviewed two students for 30 minutes each in mock interviews as they prepare for careers in librarianship. 2023
- Reviewed MLA Immersion Session: "Lessons in Slow Librarianship: Making Room for Thought, Intention, and Kindness. Was asked to observe immersion session run through and provide feedback as trusted advisor. 2023
- Chair of LGBTQIA+ Caucus 2022 - 2023
- Chair of Professionalism & Leadership Hub Leads the P&L Hub by organizing meetings, leading the creation of events, and executing an Immersion MLA 2023 conference session. 2021 - 2023
- Revised Book Chapter Becoming a Disabled Ancestor By Mondo Vaden Was requested, due to my expertise in disability and librarianship, to review a chapter by a Black-disabled author for an anthology. 2023
- Chair-elect for MLA LGBQTIA+ Caucus 2021 - 2022
- Brody Type.Case Humanities Journal 2022
- Library Reviewer of Doody's Core Titles Reviews key texts in a given subject. 2022
- Reviewer of Graphic Medicine Novels 2022
- LGBTQIA+ Representative for Professionalism and Leadership MLA Hub 2020 - 2021
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Librarians Without Borders Ursula Poland International Scholarship Jury
For more information, please consult:
-Committees and Editorial Boards:http://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=440
-Awards and Honors juries:https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=26
-Grants,Scholarships, andFellowshipsjuries:https://www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=47 2020 - 2021
Background
education and training
- B.S. in Sociology and Nonprofit Management, Hamline University
- M.L.I.S in Library and Information Science, Saint Catherine University
credentials
Contact
preferred title
- Library Liaison to the Brody School of Medicine