Christina E Riehman-Murphy
Department Address
96 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1803
About Me
Christina Riehman-Murphy, Assistant Librarian, is the Open and Affordable Educational Resources Librarian at Penn State. Her research interests include Open Education/Pedagogy, inclusive and situated learning, and inclusive spaces in academic libraries. She holds a BA in English & Secondary Education from The Catholic University of America and an MSLS from Clarion University.
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
Publications
A scoping review of the opioid epidemic among U.S. Immigrants: Implications for treatment practices, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 2023
Just One Textbook? Student Perceptions of and Preferences for Open and Affordable Educational Resources, Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE), 2022
Cooking up engagement during a pandemic: The international Great Rare Books Bake Off between the Penn State and Monash University Libraries, IFLA Journal, 2022
“Transcribing Recipe Manuscripts Online: V.b.380 and the ‘What’s in a Recipe?’ Undergraduate Research Project at Penn State Abington.”, Early Modern Studies Journal, 2022
Navigating the 5S’s of open pedagogy projects: A roadmap for educators, The New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The library as a campus spiritual space: evidence from student focus groups, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation, Reference Services Review, 2020
Ready and Waiting: Heterosexual Men’s Decision-making Narratives in Initiation of Sexual Intimacy, Men and Masculinities, 2019
Navigating student success: learning from the higher education landscape, Reference Services Review, 2019
"Why would you do that in the library?": Reshaping academic library spaces to meet students’ spiritual needs, ACRL 2019 Conference Proceedings, 2019
Affirming the research party reference model, Reference Services Review, 2019
PaLA Virtual Journal Club: providing opportunities for reflection, improvement, and connections, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2019
Where the private meets the public: Results of a survey of library professionals’ observed student use of academic library spaces for prayer, College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2019
Ready and Waiting: Heterosexual Men's Decision-Making Narratives in Initiation of Sexual Intimacy, Men and Masculinities, 2018
Throwing a research party, deconstructing the reference desk: Bringing a social component to research, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2017
Amplify your impact: Throwing a research party, deconstructing the reference desk, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2017
Other Publications
Blogs
“The Barclay Project", 2024
The Great Rare Books Bake-off, 2020
"Constructing authentic student textual authority: Teach a text you don’t know", 2019
Money Can’t Buy Happiness, But it Can Buy Research Assistance, Which is Kind of the Same Thing, 2018
Chapters
Scalable, flexible, and scaffolded: Undergraduate research across a multi-faceted university context, Undergraduate research and the academic librarian, 2023
Situated Learning and Open Pedagogy: Pathways for Undergraduate Students' Emerging Information Literacies, Intersections of OER and Information Literacy, 2022
Research Parties: Whipping Up Consultations for a Crowd, The Library Outreach Cookbook, 2020
When There’s No Time to Cook, but There’s a Guest at Your House, Keep Something in the Freezer You Can Pop in the Oven, ACRL Discovery Tool Cookbook: Recipes for Successful Lesson Plans, 2016
Newsletters
The Business of Being a Woman? Hear our Voice(s), 2017
Comment/Debates
A place to study, a place to pray: Supporting student spiritual needs in academic libraries, College and Research Libraries News, 2018
Others
Privies, Pumping, and Prayer: Negotiating Private Needs in Public Spaces, College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News), 2020