This book explores how pop culture is used in academic libraries for collections, instruction, and programming. It also describes the foundational basis for implementing pop culture and discusses how it promotes conversations between librarians and the students, making not only the information relatable, but the library staff, as well.
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1 Uses of Popular Culture in the Academic Library: A Literature Review |
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2 Classic to Modern Conceptions of Popular Culture and the American Academic Library |
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3 Making Bookmaking Communities: Popular Publishing Cultures and Makerspaces |
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4 Stream This! Using Pop Culture to Build Confidence and Connect Community College Students to Academic Research |
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5 Popular Culture in Special Collections: A Case Study in Collection Development and Instruction |
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6 Mapping the Imagination in an Academic Library |
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7 Wakanda as a Window to the Study of Africa |
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8 From Boo Radley to My Cousin Vinny: Popular Film Collections in Academic Law Libraries and Legal Education |
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9 Lessons from Hogwarts and Beyond: Harry Potter and the Endemic of Media Bias |
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10 Not Throwing Away Our Shot: Engaging Students in Resource Evaluation Using Hamilton: An American Musical |
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11 Information Literacy and Library Instruction through the Lens of Influencers and Reality Television |
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12 The Pedagogy of Zines: Collaboration, Creation, and Collection |
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13 Teaching Copyright through Pop Culture for Public Scholarship-Based Instruction |
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14 Paranormal Walking Tours on the University Campus |
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15 Gathering in the Libraries: A Collective Experience |
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16 Using Multicultural Barbie Dolls to Teach Colonialism, Racism, and Income Inequality |
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17 Science Meets Popular Culture Speaker Series: A Texas Tech University Libraries Outreach Initiative |
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18 Building a Research Data Management Program through Popular Culture: A Case Study at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries |
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About the Editors |
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About the Contributors |
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Melissa E. Johnson is the Assistant Director of Reference and Education Services at Reese Library, Augusta University, where she also teaches freshman composition courses. She has previously published chapters in Approaches to liaison librarianship: Innovations in organization and engagement by C. Crichton & R. Canuel (Eds.),Open praxis, open access: Digital scholarship in action by D. Haugh & D. Chase (Eds), The Grounded Instruction Librarian by Jackie Belanger, Lauren Hays, Melissa Mallon, Rhonda Huisman, and Cara Bradley (Eds.), and Library partnerships with poets and writers: Case studies by C. Smallwood & V. Gubnitskaia (Eds.). Johnson is co-editor of Augusta Universitys undergraduate research journal, The Arsenal. Johnson earned both her Master of Library and Information Science degree as well as her Master of Arts in English degree from Valdosta State University (Valdosta, GA). She is currently pursuing an EdD from the University of North Georgia (Gainesville, GA).
Thomas Weeks is a reference and instruction librarian at Reese Library, University Libraries, Augusta University (Augusta, GA). He has previously published a case study of creating multimedia tutorials using established best practices in the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning and a chapter in the book The Grounded Instruction Librarian, edited by Jackie Belanger, Lauren Hays, Melissa Mallon, Rhonda Huisman, and Cara Bradley. He is a 2016 graduate of ACRL's Immersion program. Weeks earned his MLIS from Valdosta State University (Valdosta, GA) and an MS in Instructional Design and Technology from Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA). He is currently pursuing an EdD in curriculum studies from Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA). His research interests include critical librarianship, cultural studies of education, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Jennifer Putnam Davis is the Scholarship and Data Librarian at the Robert B. Greenblatt, MD Library, University Libraries, Augusta University (Augusta, GA). She has previously published an article with co-author Johnson in the Serials Librarian, and a case study with co-author Weeks in the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning. Davis is co-editor of Augusta Universitys undergraduate research journal, The Arsenal. Davis earned her MA in Medieval Literature from the University of York (York, UK) and her MLIS from Valdosta State University (Valdosta, GA).