General Information
Biography
Isabel Soto-Luna (she/her/hers) is the Business Librarian for UNO Libraries. She is a bilingual, information professional, educator, liaison, and communications specialist with experience in academic libraries, archives, fundraising, translating, and project management.
Teaching Interests
Information Literacy, Research
Research Interests
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Access, Open Access and Creative Commons Licensing
Awards and Honors
2017 - 2018 Spectrum Scholar - 2017
2020-2021 Emerging Leader, Leadership - 2020
Education
MS, Emporia State University - Denver Campus, Emporia, KS, Library Science, Leadership and Administration, 2018
BA, Colorado State University Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, Foreign Language , Spanish, 2015
BS, Colorado State University Pueblo, Pueblo, CO, Mass Communications, 2015
Licensures and Certifications
Creative Commons Certificate, Creative Commons Organization, 03/01/2021
Service
Department, College, and University
Library DEAI Committee, Committee Chair, Established in 2022, we established the charge, mission, and goals for the committee during our monthly meetings. On top of establishing the committee we worked on the following projects in 2022:DEAI wording for RPT guidelines DEAI Resource Guide for library personnel Took over maintenance for the Anti-Oppression Guides, 01/01/2022 - 01/31/2022
OLLAS Faculty, Special Institutional Assignment, Attend monthly meetings during which OLLAS discusses departmental business and maintain email communications which are used in the reviewing and voting on inclusion of credit bearing courses and approving new members. As OLLAS faculty, attended the following events:Arte LatinX Gallery OpeningArte LatinX Block PartyOLLAS Retreat, 02/01/2022 - 02/28/2022
Professional
Spectrum Advisory Committee (SAC), Through monthly meetings, SAC plans the following:Welcome messages for new scholarsLeadership Institute (part of ALA Annual)Twitter chatsCreation of Spectrum Scholar DirectoryCohort Orientation and virtual happy hourIn 2023 the Giving Back Circle will be reimagined and given a new purpose., 09/01/2018 - 09/30/2018
OpenEd Conference - DEI Committee, Conference-Related, 04/01/2021 - 04/30/2021