Category: Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Prof. Jen Hoyer, Assistant Professor and Eresources/Technical Services Librarian recently published a book chapter entitled “The News Is History: Building News Literacy Skills with Historic Primary Sources,” in News Literacy Across the Undergraduate Curriculum, Amy Damico and Melissa Yang, eds. Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024, https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40962. + CUNY Academic Works.

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This book chapter explores how we can teach skills for news literacy by looking at historic primary sources. Instead of trying to constantly adapt lesson plans to new media forms, I suggest that we use historical news sources as a sandbox for practicing news literacy skills, and then allow students to apply those skills in the spaces where they interact with news today. This chapter examines some of the needs faced by news literacy in the twenty-first century alongside the possibilities offered by teaching with primary source material and includes activities to teach transferable skills for news literacy.

City Tech library faculty, Profs. Cailean Cooney, Wanett Clyde, Kel Karpinski, Junior Tidal, and Nanette Johnson, recently published an article about their experiences communicating their work as non-teaching library faculty using a teaching portfolio. See Cooney, C., Clyde, W., Karpinski, K., Tidal, J., & Johnson, N. (2023). When ‘Non-Instructional’ Librarians Teach: Navigating Faculty Status and Teaching Portfolios. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 9, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40962. CUNY Academic Works

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This article shares individual and collective experiences from five faculty ranked librarians with roles outside of formal instruction who are employed at an academic institution in the United States, and their approach to developing and embracing a teacher identity in the context of their professional trajectory. The article explores how the authors prepared to be evaluated against traditional classroom teaching for promotion by forming a cohort-based group to support “non-instructional” librarians to create a teaching portfolio, and how they approached teaching from liminal and, at times, tenuous positions and career stages.

Tidal, J. (2023). Speaking Volumes: Podcasts for Patrons and Professionals. Niche Academy, virtual.

Junior Tidal, Professor, Web Services, Multimedia Resources Librarian was invited to teach a webinar on podcasting, the subject of his recent book.

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This webinar provides librarians with the basics of podcasting. It introduces the “five w’s” of podcasting, software, hardware, and how to market to listeners.

A recording of the webinar can be found on this page: https://www.nicheacademy.com/blog/podcasts-for-patrons-and-professionals

City Tech Library faculty have varied scholarly and creative agendas. Here are our recent publications and other accomplishments:

Nora Almeida
Almeida, N. (Oct. 2022) Land Use Intervention Library performance piece. Puffin Foundation. https://www.puffinfoundation.org/grantees/land-use-intervention/

Almeida, N. (2022) “Out of Town,” TYPO, 33,  http://www.typomag.com/issue33/almeida.html

Hoyer, J., & Almeida, N. (2021). The social movement archive. Litwin Books. see under Hoyer for links

Almeida, N., & Tidal, J. (2022). Library Wayfinding and ESOL Students: Communication Challenges and Empathy-Based Intervention. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 22(2), 453-474. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2022.0025.
Read in Academic Works

Almeida, N. (2022). Library Tautology: A Reenactment of the One-Shot. College & Research Libraries, 83(5), 833. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.83.5.833.
read in Academic Works   meet the author

Monica Berger

Berger, M. (2021). Bibliodiversity at the Centre: Decolonizing Open Access. Development and Change, 52(2), 383–404. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12634

read in Academic Works

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Berger, M. (2021). Teaching Authors about Predatory Journals in the One-on-One  Consultation. In B. Buljung & E. Bongiovanni (Eds.), The Scholarly Communications Cookbook (pp. 177–181). Association of College and Research Libraries.

read in Academic Works

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Berger, Monica (2023). “The Politics of Open Access and the Decolonization of Knowledge” [Invited paper], The Integrative Potential of Epistemic Virtues for the Digital Humanities, German Institute of Tokyo, Toyko.

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Wanett Clyde
Clyde, W. (2022). Peer Pressure: Embracing Good Influences. In R. M. Kim, G. M. Cho, & R. McGinty (Eds.), The children of the people: Writings by and about cuny students on race and social justice (First). DIO Press.

Cailean Cooney
Cailean was accepted as a Fellow in the inaugural CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) Summer Institute.

Cailean, along with her co-pi at Brooklyn College, were awarded funding from the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline and the University Dean for Talent & Industry Partnerships for a CUNY-wide research project entitled Do students have adequate access to technology to succeed in Computer Science / information technology courses, both in and outside the classroom?

Cooney, C. (2022, October). Faculty Representation in OER Initiatives. CUNY SoTL Conference (virtual).

Cooney, C. (2022). City Tech’s Open Educational Resources Fellowship. In E. Bakaitis (Ed.), Considerations of Open: Faculty reflections about open educational resources.

Cooney, C., Thompson, J. & Peach, J. (2022). Creating Community among Faculty OER Fellows: COVID-19 edition. In E. Bakaitis (Ed.), Considerations of Open: Faculty reflections about open educational resources.

Jen Hoyer
Hoyer, J., & Almeida, N. (2021). The social movement archive. Litwin Books.
read the introduction in Academic Works.   meet the authors

Hoyer, J., Holt, K. H., Pelaez, J., & Guy-Clement, N. (2022). What primary sources teach: Lessons for every classroom. Libraries Unlimited, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.

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Hoyer, J., Holt, K., Voiklis, J., Attaway, B., & Joy Norlander, R. (2022). Redesigning Program Assessment for Teaching with Primary Sources: Understanding the Impacts of Our Work. The American Archivist, 85(2), 443-479. https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-85.2.443.
Read in Academic Works  meet the author

Karpinski, K. R. (2022). The Iconography of an All‐American Icon: Sailors, Homoeroticism, and Mid‐Century Queer Cultural Politics. The Journal of American Culture 45, 440-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13419

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Anne Leonard
Leonard, Anne, and Jason Montgomery. “The City as a Learning Lab: Using Historical Maps and Walking Seminars to Anchor Place-Based Research.” Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research, edited by Lijuan Xu, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, pp. 59–68.
read in Academic Works

Nandi Prince
Prince, N. (2021). Communicating to improve the lived experiences of learning during COVID-19. The Christian Librarian, 64(1), 5.

Prince, N. (2022). Women of Colour and Black Women Leaders are Underrepresented in Architectural Firms Featured in Key Trade Publications. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 17(3), 138–140. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30180.
read in Academic Works

Prince, N. (2023). Prince, N. (2023). What’s art got to do with politics? Show me the evidence. College & Research Libraries News, 84(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.84.1.7
Read in Academic Works

Prince, N. 2022 PSC-CUNY Research Award recipient to fund research study: “Assessment of Students Research Practices who are Enrolled in an Evidence-Based Nursing Program.” Award #65088-00 53.

Junior Tidal

Tidal, J. (2021). Podcasting: A practical guide for librarians. Rowman & Littlefield.
Read Ch. 1 in Academic Works

Almeida, N., & Tidal, J. (2022). Library Wayfinding and ESOL Students: Communication Challenges and Empathy-Based Intervention. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 22(2), 453-474. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2022.0025.
Read in Academic Works

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Kel Karpinski, Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Interlibrary Loan Librarian, recently published an article: “The Iconography of an All-American Icon: Sailors, Homoeroticism, and Mid-Century Queer Cultural Politics.” The Journal of American Culture 45, no. 4 (2022): 440–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13419

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
My research looks at sailors in the United States in the 1950s and 60s, and how the sailor has become a gay icon.

Kel Karpinski, Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Interlibrary Loan Librarian, recently published an encyclopedia article: Karpinski, K. R. (2022). Hail, Caesar! In E. J. Dymond & S. J. Murguía (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film (pp. 162–167). Rowman & Littlefield.

Describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This piece looks at queer characters in the Coen Brothers’ film Hail, Caesar! (2016). The film takes place during the heyday of the Hollywood film studio and draws on many films from that time period during the 1930s and 40s.

Nora Almeida, Associate Professor, Instruction and Outreach Librarian recently published an article, “Library Tautology: A Reenactment of the One-Shot” in a special issue of College and Research Libraries. Her article is freely available to read in Academic Works.

Nora will be talking about her article as on a panel of authors from the special issue on November 16 at 2 PM. Registration :: Registrants are welcome to submit questions  in advance of the event.

In 2-3 sentences, describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
My scholarship generally focuses on intersections of Library and Information Science and Critical Theory–specifically drawing from Feminist Theory and Performance Theory. Much of my work, including this non-traditional essay, explores care labor, neoliberalism, and institutional power dynamics.

What makes you particularly proud of this work?
Think it’s great that more academic journals are publishing non-traditional (and “non-academic”) scholarship, which opens up / shifts disciplinary discourse norms and potentially allows for a wider readership base.

Jen Hoyer, Instructor and Eresources, Technical Services Librarian has co-authored the new book What Primary Sources Teach Lessons for Every Classroom with ABC-CLIO. The book is available for purchase from the publisher. The introduction and table of contents are available in CUNY Academic Works.

In 2-3 sentences, describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This book provides hands-on strategies for providing skills-based instruction with primary source material. Organized as a set of adaptable lesson plans, this publication is designed to support classroom teachers, archivists, and special collections librarians alike. Two additional chapters on differentiation and on adapting lesson plans to fit whatever archival material you have on hand support instructors in being creative and catering to the needs of their students.

What makes you particularly proud of this work?
I’m really excited about how this book advocates for and supports instruction that centers the student.

Jen Hoyer, Instructor and Eresources, Technical Services Librarian and Nora Almeida, Associate Professor,  Instruction and Outreach Librarian published The Social Movement Archive with Litwin Books. The
introduction is available open access in Academic Works and the full book is available for purchase from Litwin Books.

In 2-3 sentences, describe your scholarship or creative work to someone unfamiliar with the field.
This publication represents an intersection of Jen and Nora’s scholarship that focuses on archival theory, social movement history, and material culture. This is a book about archives but also about cultural ephemera and the role that cultural production and art serves in social movement organizing. This book might interest to archivists and library professionals as well as activists or scholars who study social movements or new materialism.

What makes you particularly proud of this work?
One of the best parts of this project was that it gave us an opportunity to talk to movement activists and artists supporting social movement organizing. We also see this book filling a gap in current literature about alternative archives–many scholars are advocating for more inclusion of the perspective of content creators in archives by involving them in description but rarely include these perspectives in their own scholarship.

Add anything else you’d like the reader of our blog to know about your work
This book is illustrated and contains full color reproductions of primary source material created by contributors. People interested in this book might want to know more about the social movements represented which include: women’s liberation, disability rights, housing justice, Black liberation, anti-war, Indigenous sovereignty, immigrant rights, and prisoner abolition, among others.