Lara Miller Rivera

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Journals/Publications

• El-Khayat, Y., Franco, N., & Miller, L. (2022). Community Building with Conversations about COVID-19. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 41(2), 223-235. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2022.2095815
• Blakiston, R., Liu, Y. (., & Miller, L. (2021).

  DesignOps in an Academic Library: Reducing Barriers, Improving Efficiency, and Scaling Impact of Design and Research

  . Journal of Library Administration, 62(1), 31-46. doi:10.1080/01930826.2021.2006984

Proceedings Publications

• Miller Rivera, L., Sult, L., & Paschke-Wood, J. (2025).

  Crafting connections: Stewardship, leadership, and the student learning lifecycle

  . In LOEX, 25-26.

Presentations

• Miller Rivera, L. (2025).

  Designing for transfer students: Rethinking literature assignments in generalist STEM courses

  . STEM Librarians Collaborative Meeting. Virtual: STEM Librarians Collaborative.
• Miller Rivera, L., Gerken, C., & Hertzel, C. (2025).

  Navigating change through cross-department collaboration

  . AzLA Annual Conference. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Library Association (AzLA).
• Miller Rivera, L., Sult, L. A., & Paschke-wood, J. (2025, May).

  Crafting Connections: Stewardship, Leadership and the Student Learning Lifecycle

  . LOEX 2025: Crafting a Future for Information Literacy. Pasadena, California: LOEX.
• Vickery, R., & Miller Rivera, L. (2025, October 23).

  Growing a collaborative and sustainable instruction community with the UA Libraries’ Teaching Tools Hub

  . 2025 Arizona Library Association Annual Conference. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Library Association.
• El-Khayat, Y., & Miller, L. (2021, May). Community building with conversations about COVID-19. Medical Libraries Association Conference. Virtual: MLA.
• Miller, L. (2020, October). Supporting Student Success: Pell Grant Student Experiences with Library Technology Lending Services. Library Assessment Conference. Virtual: ARL.
• Blakiston, R. L., Miller, L., & Curl, A. D. (2019, October). Creating User-Centered Website Navigation. University of Arizona IT Summit. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.
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  Website content is often hidden behind cumbersome menus. How can we better label, organize, and design navigation so users can find what they need? Learn two information architecture techniques for a better user experience: card sorts for creating categories, and tree testing for identifying navigation paths.
• Miller, L., Nichols, J. T., & Paschke-wood, J. (2019, 11). Planning and Assessing Outreach to Different Campus User Groups. Arizona Library Association Annual Meeting.

Poster Presentations

• Miller, L., Le-Huu Pineault, A., Crowl, P., Kord, A., Neufeld, E., Lackner, J., & Hudgins, G. (2023, March). Putting Your Library on the Map: Navigating Institutional Relationships for an LMS . Association of College & Research Libraries 2023 Conference. Pittsburg, PA: ACRL.