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 […]

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 was an invited panelist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro iDEAL Summit. The panel also included Dr. Peter Johan Lor, Professor at University of Pretoria and former Director of the National Library of South Africa, and Dr. Ismail Abdullahi, Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Carolina Central […]