I have been collaborating with Claire Walker, Research & Instruction Librarian at Belmont University, to conduct a study on student perceptions of academic integrity. Specifically, we were interested in examining how and why students from different cultures differ in their perspectives on these issues. We collected data via online questionnaire from students at a private Christian university […]
I was selected as a member of the first cohort of Leadership Development Scholars by the UNC Graduate School. The program involves the implementation of a proposed professional development project, participation in a leadership workshop, and the creation of a personalized leadership development plan. I will be organizing and moderating a panel discussion with prominent leaders in […]
The AMICAL (American International Consortium of Academic Libraries) 2013 Annual Conference took place June 12-15 at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. I gave a talk titled “Cross-Campus Collaboration for Academic Integrity,” addressing the ways that librarians, teaching faculty, administrators, and IT staff, can collaborate to ensure that undergraduate and graduate students understand academic integrity and develop […]
Claire Walker, Research & Instruction Librarian, and I used the photovoice method to conduct a comparative study about student perceptions of academic integrity issues at Belmont University and the American University of Cairo. We presented our findings at LOEX 2013, a library instruction conference, in a talk called “Picture This! Instruction Librarians Promoting Academic Integrity.” […]
Cleveland State Community College was one of the recipient libraries of the Muslim Journeys grant, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. As part of the promotion for Muslim Journeys, the CSCC library invited me to give a talk called The Arab Spring: Social Movements & Social Networks. You can […]
Along with Claire Walker, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Belmont University, I gave a presentation called Authentic Teaching: Lessons from Instruction Librarians at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. The Conference took place at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA on 6-8 February 2013. Abstract: Librarians, like many scholars, often leave graduate school with little teaching […]
Meggan Houlihan, Coordinator of Instruction at The American University in Cairo, and I published “Teaching Literacy: Methods for Studying and Improving Library Instruction” in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. The article is available online. Full citation: Houlihan, M., & Click, A. (2012). Teaching Literacy: Methods for Studying and Improving Library Instruction. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice,7(4), […]
I was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship to study Arabic in the summer of 2012, and enrolled in an intensive language program at the Hedayet Institute for Arabic Studies in Cairo, Egypt.
In April, I was invited to give a talk at Belmont University in Nashville, as part of National Library Week programs. Details on the talk are below: “Social Movements and Libraries: From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street” 2011 was a year of social movements, bringing change and upheaval all over the world, from the […]
I had the opportunity to collaborate with six authors from AMICAL institutions to conduct a study on the ways that students use the library and other learning spaces on campus. Our findings were published in the International Journal of Library Science. The PDF of the full paper is linked here. Full citation: Click, Amanda, et al. (2012). […]