She is the subject liaison to the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, the Environmental Program, Anthropology, Geography, and Global and Regional Studies. Laurie is interested in disparities in information access on a global scale, and she conducts work in Monteverde, Costa Rica, building open access digital collections of research-based materials generated there. Her scholarship has focused on these projects in the context of global information equity; internationalization and the academic library; and environmental information literacy. She has worked with libraries in Costa Rica and Peru.