New Year + New Position

After six months as Adjunct Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor in the Spe­cial Col­lec­tions Research Cen­ter at Appalachi­an State Uni­ver­si­ty, I was giv­en the oppor­tu­ni­ty to move into a new posi­tion. Begin­ning Jan­u­ary 1, I became the Out­reach and Pub­lic Ser­vices Lec­tur­er Librar­i­an in the Spe­cial Col­lec­tions Research Cen­ter. In addi­tion to offer­ing ref­er­ence and instruc­tion ser­vices, I also be involved in out­reach activ­i­ties, includ­ing the cel­e­bra­tion of Appalachi­an State Uni­ver­si­ty’s 125th anniversary.

I’ve real­ly enjoyed this career piv­ot and learn­ing more about archival research and how to teach archival research. For exam­ple, last week I taught two ses­sions on the zines col­lec­tion and it’s been fun and excit­ing to see stu­dents explore and eval­u­ate them with inter­est and curios­i­ty. I’ve also been work­ing with a music fac­ul­ty mem­ber on poten­tial research top­ics that stu­dents could explore on gen­der and music with­in the archives, so while my posi­tion isn’t explic­it­ly relat­ed to music I’m still find­ing ways to incor­po­rate music librar­i­an­ship into my work.

Beyond my new posi­tion, I’m also col­lab­o­rat­ing with some excel­lent music librar­i­an col­leagues from across the coun­try on pre­sen­ta­tions, arti­cles, and a book chap­ter on a music com­pan­ion we cre­at­ed for the ACRL Frame­work for Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­a­cy for High­er Edu­ca­tion. I’ll be shar­ing more info about the music com­pan­ion soon.