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Sabbatical Focus - shared with the college libraries staff and faculty - August 2,2022

 



I have had a few questions about my work and intentions during my sabbatical (fall 2022), so here is a quick outline of what I am currently planning.  

First, please keep me included in email lists for Teams, meetings, and general information. It will keep me informed so that when spring 2023 arrives, I will have some knowledge of the happenings that have occurred during fall 2022 in the library. One of my “fundamental cares” is to be fully informed, so this request leads to fulfilling this fundamental care. 

My sabbatical work will be focused on:

The development of an Information Literacy (IL) book that outlines IL as a Discipline. Guided by conversations over the last year or so with colleagues, scholars, researchers, and other academics across the globe, this project has emerged as a potential publication. We have written an NEH (National Endowment of the Humanities) grant for the project and will hear about that in August. In the meantime, we have a publisher interested in the work, and just received reviewer comments on the book proposal. The group of collaborators, advisors, and editors for the work represents a global constituency of experts in Information Literacy. 

The second focus of my sabbatical work will be as the Chair of the ALA (American Library Association) LRRT (Library Research Round Table) and our work this year is about collaboration and research across librarianship- including academic, public, school libraries, special libraries, archives, museums, and other potential connections for librarians to foster meaningful research. This supports the notion of IL as a Discipline and the need for theory to inform practice and practice to inform theory more intentionally. 

I will also continue to work on some ongoing projects such as the cross institutional UCF/SSC Project Outcome research project data analysis, the Celebration of Librarian Collaboration work, integrating IL into the new BS Education degrees, and some other projects in queue. 

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