This series contains publications by authors who work at CUNY Libraries in faculty and staff roles. CUNY libraries are dedicated to supporting open access library research.
Works from 2026
A sample teaching portfolio for technical services librarians, Junli Diao
SEEK IN CUNY Archives, Reign McConnell
Works from 2025
Making Alma Analytics Work for Resource Sharing: A Discussion & Demo, Tokunbo Adeshina and J. Silvia Cho
Making Sense of All Your Data: Working with Statistics Across Systems, Tokunbo Adeshina and Silvia Cho
Increasing Global South Knowledge Representation with OA and Library Resource Sharing, J. Silvia Cho
Covid-19 Asian American Oral History Project: reflecting on identity and oral history at a community college, Thomas Cleary
Red Scare at CUNY: A Research Guide, Wilhelmine Coste, Scout Zabel, Erin A'Hearn, and Patrick J. McGee
Nchetjá kuènté chjasin Jnantáyo: El barro del pueblo de Metzontla, Xítjōahnko Cruz and Eric Silberberg
Building a Professional Learning Community to Improve Technical Services Librarians' Teaching Preparedness, Junli Diao
Critique, Postcritique and Libraries, Mark E. Eaton
From Weberian Rationalization to JavaScript Components: Modularism in Academic Library Software, Mark E. Eaton
Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT Handout, Michelle Ehrenpreis and John P. DeLooper
Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT Presentation, Michelle Ehrenpreis and John P. DeLooper
Chatbot Assessment: Best Practices for Artificial Intelligence in the Library, Michelle Ehrenpreis and John P. DeLooper
Getting It Right: Common Alma Mistakes and How to Fix Them, Kristen Fredericksen
Increasing Discovery of CUNY Archival Collections Through Metadata, Kristen Fredericksen and Natalie Milbrodt
Interview: Deborah Parker on Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene, Jen Hoyer
Kimball Hall, 1970: Collective Organizing Through Print Production, Jen Hoyer
Evidence-based shared agendas for scholarship on teaching with primary sources: Reflections on a bibliometric analysis, Jen Hoyer and Anne Bahde
Armed by Design: Posters and Publications of Cuba's Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), Jen Hoyer, Lani Hanna, Josh MacPhee, Vero Ordaz, and Sarah Seidman
Empowering Faculty With Open Education: A Three Week Training in OER, ZTC and Open Pedagogy at Bronx Community College, Michael Kahn
1 Repository, 26 Campuses, 10 Years: Strength (and Chaos) in Numbers, Jojo Karlin and Jill Cirasella
Bibliographic Instruction and the Need for “Librarian-First” OER Repositories, Michael Kirby
Review of Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival, Michael Kirby
Review of Platform Power and Libraries, Michael Kirby
Review of The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross, Michael Kirby
The Bib Record in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Michael Kirby
Arts-based Sustainability: From New York to Malawi, Martha B. Lerski
Identifying intangible and biocultural heritage elements toward environmental understanding: engaging stakeholders through art, Martha B. Lerski
A Battle of the Chatbots: An Exploratory Comparison of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity and HuggingChat, Karen Okamoto
Educating the Educators: Six Frames for Three Identities, Eric Silberberg, Laura Cameron, Christina Jones, Amy James, Alison Lehner-Quam, Robin Ewing, and Margaret Gregor
Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism, Leila Walker
Works from 2024
CUNY/SUNY Alma Resource Sharing: A review from two CUNY Campuses, Tokunbo Adeshina and J. Silvia Cho
Evaluation of Undergraduate Research Topic Skill Development, Vanessa Arce and Katelyn Angell
A Handbook on Mentoring Students in Undergraduate Research: Proven Strategies for Success (2nd edition), Nadia Benakli, Monica Berger, Aida Egues, Hamidreza Norouzi, Kate Poirier, and Diana Samaroo
Gender and Peer Review, Monica Berger
Introduction, Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications (Chapter 1), Monica Berger
Library Publishing in the Global South: Research in Progress, Monica Berger
Rachel Franks, Double Agent: A Librarian and a Crime Author - William Blick Interviews Rachel Franks (January 2024), William Blick
Using IFMs to Pay for Lost Items, J. Silvia Cho
Leveraging the Dual Role of the OER Practitioner/Administrator: 'Making it Count' at an Individual and Institutional Level, Cailean Cooney
Library Faith, Self-Care, and Academic Librarianship, John P. DeLooper
Review of the book The Fight against Book Bans: Perspectives from the Field, John A. Drobnicki
Coding with Those Who Show Up: Two Methodologies on Technical Committee Work, Mark E. Eaton
eBook management in Ex Libris’ Alma: A tale of two workflows, Michelle Ehrenpreis and Sonali Sugrim
Spanning Literacy Instruction: A Wikipedia Editing Assignment in an Upper-Level Biochemistry Course, Iris Finkel and Frida E. Kleiman
I Didn't Know You Could Do That in Alma!, Kristen Fredericksen
The News Is History: Building News Literacy Skills with Historic Primary Sources, Jen Hoyer
It’s So Liberating To Do The Work: Education In Archives Creates Space For People With Disabilities, Jen Hoyer and Julia Pelaez
Change is Possible: Implementing Assessment of Library Instruction with the Help of Change Management Theories, Carrie Jedlicka
Adapting for Anti-Racism: Collaboratively diversifying faculty open professional development, Stacy Katz and Sherry L. Deckman
Review of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto, Michael Kirby
Librarians Need Accomplices!, Robin Naughton Ph.D and Simone L. Yearwood
Revamping Email Communications: A Review of Five Free Email Design Platforms, Karen Okamoto
Bite-Size Market Research Tools: Micro Surveys and Usability Studies, Mark Aaron Polger
Reflecting on 10 years of the PR Xchange, Mark Aaron Polger
The Information Literacy Class as Theatrical Performance: A Qualitative Study of Academic Librarians’ Understanding of Their Teacher Identity, Mark Aaron Polger
Analysis of Library School Syllabi Reveals Poor Design and Limited Content about Disability and Accessibility, Nandi Prince
Fostering self-reflection on library instruction: Testing a peer observation instrument focused on questioning strategies, Eric Silberberg
Reacciones de los docentes ante las prohibiciones y biblioclastia de los nuevos libros de texto gratuitos de México en 2023: Un estudio cualitativo descriptivo, Eric Silberberg, Armida Liliana Patrón Reyes, Pedro Chagoyán García, and Eric Manuel Benjamín Sánchez Barragán
Teachers’ reactions to the bans and biblioclasm of Mexico’s national free textbooks in 2023: A descriptive qualitative study, Eric Silberberg, Armida Liliana Patrón Reyes, Pedro Chagoyán García, and Eric Manuel Benjamín Sánchez Barragán
Palimbiosis, Leila Walker
Digital Literacy Activities, Sharell Walker
Works from 2023
The Importance of Data Privacy and Security During Emergency Remote Learning, Emma Antobam-Ntekudzi
Improving a Library FAQ: Assessment and Reflection of the First Year’s Use, Vanessa Arce and Michelle Ehrenpreis
Academic Librarians and Pedagogical Approaches to Deterring Predatory Publishing, Monica Berger
Fostering Epistemic Equality with Library-Based Publishing in the Global South, Monica Berger
Library Publishing in the Global South: Research in Progress, Monica Berger
The Politics of Open Access and the Decolonization of Knowledge, Monica Berger
The Scholarship of Rock Music: Knowledge Mapping through Bibliography, Monica Berger
Working towards promotion to full professor: strategies, time management, and habits for academic librarian mothers, Marta Bladek
Effects of Library Workshop Attendance and Library Website Visit Frequency on Health Professions Students’ LibGuides Awareness, John Carey, Ajatshatru Pathak, and Sarah C. Johnson
OER about Open Access: A Brief Assessment, Jill Cirasella
When ‘Non-Instructional’ Librarians Teach: Navigating Faculty Status and Teaching Portfolios, Cailean Cooney, Wanett I. Clyde, Kel R. Karpinski, Junior R. Tidal, and Nanette Johnson
Titles and keywords: ‘Great love isn’t two people finding the perfect match in one another!’, Junli Diao
Review of the book Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century, John A. Drobnicki
DRYing Our Library’s LibGuides-Based Webpage by Introducing Vue.js, Mark E. Eaton
Confronting the Challenges of Teaching Hard History Through a Role-Playing Activity, Iris Finkel
Work Orders Demystified, Kristen Fredericksen
We Didn’t Know: How a Mid-career Research Project Taught Us about Disability, Advocacy, and Ourselves, Lee Ann Fullington and Jill Cirasella
How Granular Do You Want to Go? Analyizing MARCXML Data with Python, Rebecca Hyams
The Limits of Community: Wendell Berry, Books Bans, and Intellectual Freedom as an Individual Right, Michael Kirby
Taking Advantage of Opportunities for Informal Leadership, LINDA MILES and Susanne Markgren
Pulling It All Together: Teaching Genre, Disciplinary and Career Literacies, and the Framework for Information Literacy in an Associate Degree Capstone Course, LINDA MILES and Elisabeth Tappeiner
Modern impressions: Getting to know your library website users, Robin Naughton
Where Do Community College Students Go for their Reference Management Needs: Findings from a Survey StudyManagement Needs: Findings from a Survey Study, Ajatshatru Pathak and Sarah Johnson
Understanding student perspectives on learning analytics to enable privacy advocacy and policy design, Michael R. Perry, Andrew D. Asher, Kristin A. Briney, Mariana Regalado, Abigail Goben, Maura A. Smale, Dorothea Salo, and Kyle M. L. Jones
Inclusive and Accessible : Library Signage and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Mark Aaron Polger
The Information Literacy Class as Theatrical Performance: A Qualitative Study of Academic Librarians’ Understanding of Their Teacher Identity, Mark Aaron Polger
Continuing Education and Data Training Initiatives are Needed to Positively Impact Academic Librarians Providing Data Services, Nandi Prince
What’s art got to do with politics? Show me the evidence, Nandi Prince
TopoRadio: Mapping Research on Spanish-LanguageRadio in the United States, Eric Silberberg
EDUCATION AND THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CRISIS IN THE AGE OF CHATGPT, Casandra Silva Sibilin
