Hi, I’m Lindsay, Faculty Reference Librarian at Merced College, a midsized community college in California’s Central Valley.

I’m the daughter of a Mexican immigrant and Arkansas migrant, both cannery workers, and was the first person in my family to attend college. I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up until a sociology professor pointed me to librarianship after he listened to me say that I enjoyed helping fellow students with their writing and working on research papers.

A college graduation, recession, wedding, graduate degree, and lots of little library jobs later, I started my full-time professional capital “L” librarian career in August 2013 at the Los Baños Campus of Merced College, a full-service center an hour away from the campus in Merced, California. In June 2016, I started working as the Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the UC Merced Library at the University of California Merced. In August 2019, I returned to Merced College as a Faculty Reference Librarian at the Merced campus and earned tenure in March 2023. I also have the honor of being one of two faculty members who received the Distinguished Full Time Faculty Member of the Year award for 2023-2024.

In the library, I serve as Instruction lead and the library liaison for the School of Humanities and Liberal Arts and its corresponding Student Success Team. I also currently serve on Curriculum, including technical reviews, Distance Education, Student of the Month, and the Online Education Technology Planning committees. I’m also a member of the Zero Textbook Cost Task Force and the College’s Academic Senate for California Community College’s Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI) liaison.

The part I love best about my job is easing student anxiety when transitioning to college research. I enjoy teaching, building learning objects, and advocating for an embedded information literacy curriculum and Zero Textbook Cost resources.

My CV includes more about my work.

Outside of work, I love hanging out with my husband, toddler, and pitbull Roxie.