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KellyAnne McGuire

Director of Senior Thesis & Outreach Librarian, Alumni Library

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Areas of Specialization

Information services, patron engagement, information literacy

Other Areas of Interest

Intellectual freedom, literacy and reading culture, print and digital publishing, pedagogy, fiber arts

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

LR 106m The Dao of Research

LR 107m Digital Storytelling

LR 112m Reading Images: visual Literacy in Academia and Beyond

LR 114m Reading Critically: Cultivating Food Media Literacy

LR 117m Synthesizing Research: The Literature Review

LR 120m Critical Issues in Digital Privacy

LR 122m Information Privilege

Game of Tomes (Academy)

Illuminating Manuscripts (Academy)

Digital Data: Making Information Matter (Academy)

Much Ado About Knitting: The Class (Academy)

Biography

MSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA in English and Art History (cum laude), Mount Holyoke College

As the Outreach Librarian at the Alumni Library, KellyAnne organizes library events, displays, and programs, and integrates the library into the broader campus culture. As the Director of Senior Thesis, she develops programming and curriculum to support the senior thesis experience. She is available to students, staff, and faculty for research help, curriculum development, information literacy instruction sessions, and workshops.

KellyAnne has worked, volunteered, and taught at public, high school, and academic libraries in New York and Massachusetts for over a decade, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees at the Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives in Stockbridge, MA.

Highlights

  • Member of The Center for Food Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock
  • Cool Sightings: A Year of Natural History at Simon’s Rock project team member
  • College Reading & Learning Association certified tutor
  • ProLiteracy certified tutor

Presentations

“Weaving it Together: The Warp and Weft of Programming and Instruction,” SENY-Con 2023, Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Highland, NY. April 14, 2023.

Invited workshop leader. “Course Design for Librarians: Turning a One-shot into a Multi-session Course.” Northern New York Library Network, Potsdam, NY. June 14, 2019.

Invited workshop leader. “Course Design for Librarians: Turning a One-shot into a Multi-session Course.” Metropolitan New York Library Council, New York, NY. February 8, 2019.

“Cool Sightings: A Year of Natural History at Simon’s Rock,” with Dr. Sarah Snyder, Berkshire Natural History Conference, Sheffield, MA. November 17, 2018.

Invited workshop leader. “Course Design for Librarians: Turning a One-shot into a Multi-session Course.” Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Highland, NY. July 26, 2018.

Cool Sightings: A Year of Natural History at Simons Rock: A Community Book Project” at the Sixteenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries in Philadelphia, PA (7/7/18) – co-presented with Karen Advokaat

“Metaliteracy for Resilience: Setting Students up for Success,” at the New England Library Instruction Group Annual Program in Portland, ME (6/9/18) – co-presented with Brian Mikesell

“Learn Forward: An Information Studies Curriculum for the 21st Century” at SENY-Con 2018 hosted by Southeastern New York Library Resources Council in Highland, NY (4/13/18)

“Learn Forward: An Information Studies Curriculum for the 21st Century” at the Connecticut Information Literacy Conference hosted by the Connecticut Library Association in Manchester, CT (6/16/17) – co-presented with Brian Mikesell