I will be presenting my research as a visual presentation during the President’s Reception at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting. Come talk to me about my poster, Stress, Adaptation, Growth: International Students’ Approaches to Scholarly Research and Academic Integrity, at 18:30 EDT on Monday, October 30th. You can check out the poster and additional materials below. Poster […]
Claire Wiley, Meggan Houlihan and I will be presenting our poster, Synthesizing the LIS research on international graduate students, at the American Library Association 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. You can check out our poster and handout below, but it will be MUCH more fun to come chat with us at 10:30AM on Sunday, June […]
I’m presenting a poster, Cross-cultural adaptation: international students, research & academic integrity, at the 2017 ACRL conference in Baltimore, MD. Come talk to me about my research at 9:30AM on Friday, March 24th! Poster PDF Handout PDF
In 2017, Reference Services Review will publish a special issue on “Transfer Students and Students in Transition.” Meggan Houlihan, Claire Walker Wiley and I have contributed an article focused on the information literacy research in our systematic review of the LIS literature on international students. The issue will be published in February of 2017, and our […]
Claire Wiley (Belmont University), Meggan Houlihan (New York University – Abu Dhabi), and I conducted a systematic review of the LIS literature about international students and academic libraries. Our findings will be published in College & Research Libraries in May of 2017, but the preprint is available here: http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2016/03/22/crl16-877.abstract Abstract This study is a systematic review of the […]
In October 2015, I traveled to Tallinn, Estonia to attend in the European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL). I participated in the doctoral forum, presenting the preliminary results of my dissertation work (International students and academic integrity: Global perspectives on a complex issue). Meggan Houlihan, First-Year Experience and Instruction Librarian at NYU Abu Dhabi, and I gave a talk […]
In February 2015, North Carolina A&T hosted the inaugural Empirical Librarians Symposium. Emily Vardell, Leslie Thomson, John D. Martin III, and I led a panel on research methods for library and information science, covering focus groups, surveys, participant observation, and interviews. Resources from our panel, Conducting LIS Research: The Method in our Madness, are available on […]
I was fortunate to be able to attend IFLA for the first time in August. This year the Congress took place in Lyon, France. Sumayya Ahmed and I (ELIME-21 Fellows), along with SILS faculty Barbara Moran, gave a presentation about the newest ELIME-21 grant initiative. The Global Training Resources for Information Professionals (GTRIP) project is a repository […]
Josiah Drewry (Business & Economics Librarian, UNC Chapel Hill), Mahmoud Khalifa (Library of Congress Field Office, Cairo, Egypt) and I have been working on a systematic review of the LIS literature between 2004 and 2013 in order to address the following questions: What kinds of scholarly conversations have Middle Eastern and North African practitioners of […]
The results of my academic integrity study have been published in Libri. Click, A. “Taking something that is not your right”: Egyptian students’ perceptions of academic integrity. Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services, 64(2), 109-123. Abstract: This study explores the perceptions of Egyptian undergraduate students at The American University in Cairo, an American-style private university […]