Recent Publications & Conference Presentations: Pedagogy
Almeida, Nora. “Library Tautology: A Reenactment of the One-Shot.” College & Research Libraries. Special Issue on Library Instruction and the One-Shot, edited by Nicole Pagowsky 83, no.5 (2022). https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1623
Almeida, Nora and Junior Tidal. “Library Wayfinding and ESOL Students: Communication Challenges and Empathy-based Interventions.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy 22.2 (2022) https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/article/library-wayfinding-and-esol-students-communication-challenges-and-empathy-based-intervention
Almeida, Nora, Jean Amaral, Thomas Cleary, Junli Diao, Megan Wacha, and Ann Matsuuchi. “WikiProject CUNY: On CUNY Librarians’ Collaborative Projects with Wikipedia.” LACUNY Institute: Students are Evolving, Are Libraries Adapting? Laguardia Community College. (May 2019). See: Slides
Almeida, Nora, Romel Espinel, Eamon Tewell, and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe. “From Value to Values: Information Literacy, Capitalism, and Resistance.” Association for College and Research Libraries Conference: Recasting the Narrative. Cleveland, OH. (April 2019). https://eamontewell.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/from-value-to-values-acrl-2019.pdf
Almeida, Nora and Ian Beilin. “Contested Sites of Critical Library Pedagogy.” Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (November 2018). https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/631252
Almeida, Nora and Junior Tidal. “Mixed Methods not Mixed Messages: Improving LibGuides with student usability data.” Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 12.4. (2017) https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/232/
Almeida, Nora, and Julia Pollack. “In Bed with the Library: A Survey of Embedded Librarianship Initiatives at City University of New York Libraries.” Communications in Information Literacy 11.1. (2017) https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/179/
Almeida, Nora. “Podcasting as Pedagogy.” The Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook. Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy (eds). Chicago, IL: ACRL Press, 2016. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ny_pubs/98/
Almeida, Nora, Helen Georgas, and Alexandra Hamlett. “The Cosmography of Discovery: Integration, Student Perceptions, and Information Design.” Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference. University of Texas at Austin. (April, 2017). See: Slides
Almeida, Nora, Junior Tidal, and Heather V. Hill. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: UX and Library Pedagogy.” CUNY IT Conference: Challenges and Opportunities. (November, 2018). See: Slides
Almeida, Nora. “Librarian as Outsider.” Hybrid Pedagogy (2015). Web. http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/librarian-as-outsider/
Selected Professional Development Activities: Pedagogy
Critical Pedagogy Symposium. Virtual Conference organized by LILAC, METRO, and ACRL-NY, 5/2021.
Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium. Virtual Conference hosted by the University of Arizona Tucson, 9/2020.
“Video Production for Online Teaching.” Virtual Workshop taught by Mike Mena, organized by the CUNY Graduate Center Publics Lab, 8/18/2020
LILAC Spring Conversations: Teaching and Learning at a Distance. CUNY Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee, 6/4-6/5/2020
Developing a Culturally Responsive Literacy Lens Workshop, Metropolitan New York Library Council, 9/16/2019
Innovation Through Collaboration Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Seminar, LaGuardia Community College National Science Department & College-wide Undergraduate Research Committee, 1/18/2019
Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. 11/15-16/2018
Counter-Histories Symposium, The New School, 5/1/2018
On the Art and Activism, Ebb and Flow of Global Brooklyn: A Panel Discussion with Savitri D, Dulcie Canton, Brennan Cavanaugh, Robin Laverne Wilson, Mark Noonan, and Benjamin Heim Shepard. Interference Archive, 3/27/2018
“Making Things Very Public” lecture on art, social justice, and public space by Mischa Kuball, Cooper Union Intra-disciplinary Seminar Public Lecture Series, 3/19/2018
Wages for Housework lecture by Marxist Feminist Scholar and Activist Silvia Federici, Interference Archive, 2/9/2018
Critical Librarianship Workshop. Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, 12/5-6/2016
Politics in Public Space in Words and Pictures, Interference Archive, 12/13/16
2016 LACUNY Institute: Race Matters: Libraries, Racism, and Antiracism, Brooklyn College, 5/20/2016
Teach@CUNY, CUNY Graduate Center, 5/2/2016
