As part of my professional work as a technology leader and archivist, I have written for publication, made conference presentations, led workshops, written documentation, and produced publicity material for services and roll-outs.

For my personal essays, please see my blog: Babbling Brookes.

Copyright notice
Because much of this material is no longer available online, I have posted them on my site for sole purpose of making them available to people interested in my previous work. Most of these items remain copyrighted by the institutions for which I did the work.

Publicity campaign for rollout of MySimmons portal, spring 2009.		Internal campus online/email announcement Documentation for Events process Video display system announcements
Method for handling Simmons requests for discipline- or department-specific software and other systems, enabling partnerships and flexibility between the community and IT.		So You Want a New System, NERCOMP 2009. A Policy-Based Approach to Technology Systems, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2 (Apr-Jun 2008).
Engaging Simmons students in learning about technology, through fun activities		“Who Will Be the Next Rockstar?” User Services Lightning Round and poster EDUCAUSE 2008. “Fear Factor and American Idol: Leveraging Pop Culture for Student Support,” NERCOMP 2006; EDUCAUSE 2006.
Simmons graduate and undergraduate student orientation material, 2004-2008		Sample audio file (was on iTunes U) Print flyer publicizing Disinfect & Protect web site. Copyright brochure
Example of technical staff’s sophisticated use of low-cost technologies, and ability to share their knowledge and experience.		Windows Imaging, from Floppy to PXE, XP to Vista, or how I learned to stop worrying and automate everything. . . Robert Borque and Aran Gilmore, NERCOMP SIG, March 2008.
Publicity campaign for Simmons rollouts of Mac OS X.5 Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista, and Office versions 2007 (Windows) and 2008 (Mac), spring – fall 2008.		Leopard and Vista and Office–Oh My! main page, and Mac Resources campus announcement and main page. Brave the Journey . . . video display system announcement.
Mechanism for supporting Simmons student-owned computers, subsequently applied to faculty/staff personally-owned computers		Self-Help Clinics: A Pragmatic Approach to Student Support, NERCOMP Help Desk SIG, 2007; EDUCAUSE 2006. Self-Help Clinics: A Pragmatic Approach to Student Support poster, NERCOMP 2006. Oh No! They Want Me To Support Students’ Computers . . . ? Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services, 2005.
Response to Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter,” turning the question on its head: what does it mean for IT to matter?		The Edge and How to Get It poster, EDUCAUSE 2005.
Examples of archival finding aids, written while working as a manuscripts processor		Goddard-Cambridge Graduate Program in Social Change: Records, 1969-1979 finding aid, Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston, 1991. Boston Urban Gardeners: Records, 1976-1989 finding aid, Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Boston, 1990. Luscomb, Florence, 1887 – . Papers, 1856-1987: A Finding Aid, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, 1989. Print friendly version.
Selected scholarly and archives profession articles, not available online		Biography of Florence Hope Luscomb, American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1999. “Communism, Subversive Activities, and Related Matters: Florence Luscomb Strikes Again!” in A Sampling of Innocent Documents, Radcliffe College, 1999. “Context, Compatibility, and Photo Cataloging,” New England Archivists Newsletter, January 1996. “Barbara Deming,” in Carol Hurd Green and Mary Grimley Mason, eds., American Women Writers, Vol. 5: Supplement, Continuum, 1994. Co-author, review of Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, The Public Historian, Winter 1993. Book review of Archival Appraisal, NEA Newsletter, October 1992.