Kristy Borda
Name Pronunciation
Kris-tee Board-uhPronouns
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Research Librarian for the Sciences and Instructional Strategy
Department:
Collections & Research EngagementEmail: kmborda@ncsu.edu
0000-0002-4314-7833
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Project SAFE AllyMy areas of expertise
I support research in
I can help with
Citation Management
Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote
Find Articles
Search in Discover, Google Scholar, and the Libraries' databases
Cite Sources
Cite print and online sources, Citation Builder
Library Instruction Programs
Invite a librarian to your class, first-year writing instruction, library scavenger hunt
Evaluate Sources
Determine the rigor and quality of research materials.
Learning and Working with AI
AI tool selection, considerations for use, best practices
Recent Works
AI Powered Citation Management
AI Powered Citation Management . (2024). NC State Conference on Faculty Excellence.
Bridging Alumni and Students: The Emerging Engineers Series
Borda, K., Carter, A., Kroon, T., & Valencia, A. (2024). Bridging Alumni and Students: The Emerging Engineers Series. Cooperating Raleigh Colleges.
Empowering Emerging Engineers Through Alumni Connections
Empowering Emerging Engineers Through Alumni Connections. (2024, November). STEM Librarians Collaborative.
Shout-outs From My Colleagues
Shout-outs are kind words from Libraries staff to other Libraries staff for going out of their way to be extra awesome at their job.
We want to give a shout out to Kristy for her work on AI instructional content this year, specifically the AI in Textiles and AI in Agriculture workshops. Her easy-going and engaging teaching style helps our patrons gain the essential skills they need to effectively integrate AI tools into their research workflows. We appreciate her collaborative spirit, which makes the process of developing technical content productive and rewarding.
— Shannon RicciAlp Tezbasaran
Requests for incorporating AI tools into course-based instruction have increased this semester. As someone less familiar with these tools, it can be intimidating to try and figure out the landscape. Tyler, Jenny, and Kristy have been a huge asset with their willingness to let us shadow their classes where they teach AI tools for subject-specific sessions. I appreciate their generosity in communicating about sessions where we can lurk!
— Hillary Fox
Special thanks to Kristy, Shaun, Cindy, and Rob for their ongoing effort in 2024 to migrate our existing Refworks users to Zotero and other citation managers after Refworks became an unsustainable product. It can be thankless work to have to communicate disappointing news to faculty and students as well as help them find alternatives. But BIG THANKS to you! Thanks to Kristy for her leadership of the team and to everyone for their thoughtful approach to supporting researchers, designing online materials, providing workshops, and more. I appreciate your user-centeredness as well as your good sense about us deciding to end Refworks access and how to support users with finding better solutions.
— Kim Duckett
Special thanks to Hannah, Tyler, and Kristy who have quickly become Research Engagement's go-to colleagues for learning about AI research tools. They've created learning opportunities for others in the department, developed a workshop for a local library conference, and are designing a workshop for students. I recently borrowed extensively from their content to enhance my own instruction for a group of graduate students and, honestly, could not have done this without their amazing work! Their content is conceptualized and packaged very well and so useful! Thank you!!!!
— Kim Duckett
I would like to give a big shout out to Emily, Shaun, Kristy, and Hillary F. for their work to create and deliver presentations for our soft launch of a publishing workshop series for NC State! They presented fantastic, relevant, and timely content and they brought their experience, expertise, and energy to make the workshops fun and engaging. They helped to create the foundation of a series of workshops on publishing for the NC State community that will carry on into the future.
— Hilary Davis