Nora Almeida
Nora Almeida has been researching and writing about pedagogy and information literacy. This past semester her article “Librarian as Outsider” appeared in Hybrid Pedagogy and her book chapter, “Podcasting as Pedagogy” is forthcoming in The Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook (ACRL press, 2016). Nora co-presented on web-scale discovery and information literacy at the Charleston Library Conference and the Metropolitan Library Association Annual Conference with Helen Georgas (Brooklyn College) and Alexandra Hamlett (Guttman Community College). Nora also co-presented on “Critical Librarianship in Book and Serials Acquisition” at the Charleston Library Conference with Emily Drabinski (Long Island University) and Rachel Fleming (Appalachian State). Nora’s literary essay, “Moscow,” was published by Essay Daily in February, 2016.
Monica Berger
Last fall semester, by coincidence, I published an encyclopedia entry in the same encyclopedia that Junior wrote for, 100 Best Bands Encyclopedia, edited by David Moskowitz and published by ABC-CLIO. My article was on the highly influential but not well-known Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
I am continuing to research on predatory publishing. I presented and gave a workshop on that topic with Megan Wacha, CUNY’s Scholarly Communications Librarian, at Lehman College on February 26, 2016. The recording is in Academic Works.
Maura Smale
Junior Tidal
During the 2015 fall semester, I was active in a few research endeavors. I published an encyclopedia entry on the heavy metal band Slayer for the 100 Best Bands Encyclopedia, edited by David Moskowitz and published by ABC-CLIO. I published a conference report for the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship for the E-Resource Round Up column. I co-presented on a panel discussion entitled “Programming & Promoting Public Performance Rights Films to Patrons for the American Libraries Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, California. That same conference, I was invited to speak on Drupal Security for the Library Information Technology Association Drupal Interest Group. I also gave a talk on library usability for the Metro User Experience Special Interest Group in New York. For the CUNY IT Conference, I discussed the development of the library’s responsively redesigned website. At the end of the semester, I gave a short talk on coding the library’s Proxy PHP/URL shortening permalinking tool.
Currently, I just finished a usability research project on the library’s responsive designed website (http://library.citytech.cuny.edu). This year long study asked 40 City Tech students on how they use the library website using laptop workstations, Smartphones, and tablet computers. Data collected from the study has been used to improve the library website. An article has been written and has been submitted for publication. The next research project I am working on is a written case study on the development of the library’s mobile website to its current incarnation. This has been provisionally accepted as a chapter for the upcoming book, Mobile Technology and Academic Libraries: Innovative Services for Research and Learning, which will be published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Tess Tobin
Tess’ research focuses on recruitment to the library profession and how Library and Information Science Programs (LIS) are recruiting underrepresented students. She is collecting data from LIS programs in the European Union countries to learn more about their recruitment efforts. This is part of her PSC CUNY grant, Library and Information Science Education in the World Community: A Comparative Study.
She will also be presenting at the SUNY Library Association Conference in April about her recent trip – CUNY Librarians and Archivists Visit Cuba. She will be talking about the challenges of Cuban librarians and their resilience and resourcefulness.
