While technology has made producing copies of digital content almost entirely free, there is no escaping that publishing, according to most definitions of the term, still requires time and money. Any publishing service offered by a library must find a way to achieve financial sustainability—that is, operate without losing money. However, even "losing money" is a tricky concept, especially when taking into account varying definitions of operating expenses (overhead costs) under different models for auxiliary services. Libraries are by their very nature cost centers, providing services without the expectation of recovering revenue, and are usually part of larger organizations that similarly provide services under partial or full subsidies. While libraries are often comfortable with charging for convenience services and for services to those outside their designed community of users, careful thought should be given to which costs a publishing service-or any new service-should be expected to recover.

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.

Panel presented at the 2017 Comicpalooza. This panel discusses comics in academia through the lens of library exhibitions and programing, combining comics and textbooks, and the use of comics as a new rhetorical and multimodal method for exploring narrative.

Presentation on using the Create List function in Sierra, a library service platform. It covers the basics of how to use create lists, some best practices, as well as some slightly more advanced uses like Import records, JSON queries, and using Regular Expressions in the search info. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.

Presentation on automating the clean up of catalog records in Sierra using SQL queries and Python scripts. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.