Carmen Cole

Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations & Information Sciences and Business Liaison Librarian
Associate Librarian

Office Address

E309-G Paterno
ccc143@psu.edu

Academic Support Areas

Information Sciences and Technology (IST), Security and Risk Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations, Data Sciences, Human-Centered Design and Development, Management Information Systems (MIS), Business Liaison

Subject Expertise

  • Business and Economics
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Information Sciences and Technology
  • Management Information Systems

Publications

The Myth of the 'Born Digital:': Addressing Student Computer and Digital Literacy, Journal of New Librarianship, 2024

Ensuring More Inclusive Hiring Processes, portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022

After-Hours Learning: Workshops for Professional Women to Learn Web Development, ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021

Serving the Need: Engaging in Virtual Video Reference with Students, Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 2020

Safe for work: Online professionalism instruction in the disciplinary context, ACRL 2019 Conference Proceedings, 2019

Google Scholar's Coverage of the Engineering Literature 10 years Later, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2018

Online Appointment-Scheduling for Optimizing a High Volume of Research Consultations, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2017

Due diligence: Recognizing the role of patent research in the start-up life cycle, Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, 2017

Other Publications

Blogs

Inspiration through Generosity, 2020

Badges Pave the Way for More Advanced Instruction, 2019

Chapters

Just Listen: Using Listening Tours to Improve Workplace Culture, Creating Healthy Library Workplaces: Five Factors That Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction, 2025

Fostering Inquiry Through Marketing Research: The Framework in the Business Classroom, Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework, 2024

Challenging authority: Guiding the development of critical reading skills through a social justice lens, Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians, 2023

The Web is Your Canvas: Academic Libraries as Spaces for Web Development Programming Workshops, Creators in the Academic Library: Library Services for Artists, Engineers, Designers, Makers, and More, 2023

Disrupting the business writing course: Critical pedagogy to frame business information literacy instruction, Teaching Business Information Literacy, 2022

Editorials

Ensuring More Inclusive Hiring Processes, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022

Others

Beyond face value evaluating research consultations from the student perspective, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2019