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An Asynchronous, Virtual Lab Course Model Using The Framework To Reshape Student Responses To Media Narratives, Jonathan H. Harwell, Deborah Prosser Jan 2023

An Asynchronous, Virtual Lab Course Model Using The Framework To Reshape Student Responses To Media Narratives, Jonathan H. Harwell, Deborah Prosser

Library Faculty Scholarship

This chapter describes a lab course redesigned by two librarians in a small liberal arts college. The course is tied to an undergraduate methods course, "Research, Media, Culture," in a Critical Media & Cultural Studies program. The lab had previously been taught as a synchronous course over three weeks. As a response to lower enrollments in the major, as well as the virtual teaching mode for the main course, we adapted the lab component into a six-week asynchronous course pilot with a goal of delving more deeply into information literacy pedagogy than the previous course format allowed. We also embedded …


Drawing The Invisible: Comics As A Way Of Depicting Pscyhological Responses To The Pandemic, Edward Whatley Jan 2022

Drawing The Invisible: Comics As A Way Of Depicting Pscyhological Responses To The Pandemic, Edward Whatley

Library Faculty Scholarship

This graphic article explores the sensory world in the context of pandemic-related mental health issues. While comic artists work in abstract and impressionistic styles to varying degrees, most comic art has been representational. While many artists are adept at rendering facial expressions and body language, these are merely outward manifestations of a character’s mood or emotions. This article explores conveying states of mind less literally, using my own psychological reaction to the pandemic as its subject. I employ visual metaphors, icons, symbols, abstraction, and simplification rather than realistic or highly rendered images in the hopes of better relaying thoughts and …


Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist-­Librarian For Black Special Collections, Shaundra Walker Apr 2021

Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist-­Librarian For Black Special Collections, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

While Ann Allen Shockley’s literary career has received a wealth of critique, her work as a librarian and her writings about Black Special Collections have not received as much analysis. When viewed through the lens of Critical Race Theory (CRT), Shockley emerges as an activist- librarian, one worthy of further study and consideration. Her writing and instruction on Black special collections highlight the liberatory potential of collection building to address the marginalization that traditional cataloging and classification systems impose on materials about the experiences of Black people. When applied to collection building practices, CRT reveals the ways in which Shockley’s …


Adapting An Hbcu-Inspired Framework For Black Student Success In U.S. Lis Education, Ana Ndumu, Shaundra Walker Jan 2021

Adapting An Hbcu-Inspired Framework For Black Student Success In U.S. Lis Education, Ana Ndumu, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

This perspective essay explores Gasman & Arroyo’s (2014) HBCU-inspired framework for Black student success as a prism for re-envisioning LIS education. In response to calls for anti-hegemonic LIS education, the authors discuss a potential tool for Black student success and suggest its benefits to LIS education. The framework can introduce non-white, anti-racist educational practices to the work of educating the U.S. library workforce; it is relevant in light of ongoing racial and political strife in U.S. society.


The Art Of The Real: Fact Checking As Information Literacy Instruction, Jamie Addy Jan 2020

The Art Of The Real: Fact Checking As Information Literacy Instruction, Jamie Addy

Library Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how academic librarians tasked with research instruction can use connections between digital, civic and information literacy to combat polarization and misinformation through skill-based instruction.


Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy Jun 2019

Pedagogical Perspectives Of The Adp Digital Polarization Initiative, Jamie Addy, Jeff Dowdy

Library Faculty Scholarship

A presentation of assessment data generated by librarian led sections of GC1Y to teach students fact checking skills and other techniques to combat polarization in civic and digital life. Presented at the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Conference 2019, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.


A Revisionist History Of Andrew Carnegie’S Library Grants To Black Colleges, Shaundra Walker Jan 2017

A Revisionist History Of Andrew Carnegie’S Library Grants To Black Colleges, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

Using Critical Race Theory (CRT) as an analytical framework, this chapter explores the development of libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie and later the Carnegie Corporation on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With particular emphasis on CRT's interest convergence tenet, the chapter illuminates both the motivations of these corporate philanthropies and the experiences of African Americans who negotiated with them to obtain library buildings for their campuses.


We All Read The Same Book: Assessing The Impact Of The Common Reader, Jamie Addy, Jenny Harris Jan 2017

We All Read The Same Book: Assessing The Impact Of The Common Reader, Jamie Addy, Jenny Harris

Library Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses assessment efforts to determine the impact of GC's Common Reader program from 2014-2015.


Cooking On High With Early College & Dual-Enrollment Programs, Jolene Cole Jan 2017

Cooking On High With Early College & Dual-Enrollment Programs, Jolene Cole

Library Faculty Scholarship

A chapter from: The First-Year Experience Cookbook. The First-Year Experience Cookbook provides librarians with a series of innovative approaches to teaching and assessing information literacy skills during a student's first year. Featuring four chapters—Library Orientation, Library Instruction, Programs, and Assessment—and more than 60 practical, easy-to-implement recipes, this book compiles lessons and techniques for you to adapt, repurpose, and implement in your libraries.


Ready Player Ready Research: A Common Reader Caper, Jamie Addy Jan 2017

Ready Player Ready Research: A Common Reader Caper, Jamie Addy

Library Faculty Scholarship

This chapter discusses integrating co-curricular activities to promote and embed common reader material throughout the first year experience.


We've Got Mail: Email Preservation At A Small, Private University, Nahali Croft Jan 2016

We've Got Mail: Email Preservation At A Small, Private University, Nahali Croft

Library Faculty Scholarship

This paper discusses the obstacles and solutions to implementing an email preservation system at a small university. I reviewed five possible programs for the best fit for the situation, though only three were considered seriously for implementation. At the conclusion, I discuss why the path taken was most appropriate, which may benefit others looking to implement similar systems.


Early Colleges And Academic Libraries: Instruction Failures And Successes, Jolene Cole Jun 2015

Early Colleges And Academic Libraries: Instruction Failures And Successes, Jolene Cole

Library Faculty Scholarship

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Critical Race Theory And The Recruitment, Retention And Promotion Of A Librarian Of Color: A Counterstory, Shaundra Walker Jan 2015

Critical Race Theory And The Recruitment, Retention And Promotion Of A Librarian Of Color: A Counterstory, Shaundra Walker

Library Faculty Scholarship

Despite the proliferation of residency programs, institutes, and scholar- ships designed to increase the numbers of African American and other academic librarians of color, academic librarianship, in contrast to the American population, continues to lacks racial diversity. According to the American Library Association’s most recent Diversity Counts report, credentialed academic librarians are 86.1% white. African Americans make up 12.6% of the American population, but only account for 5.4% of credentialed academic librarians.