Christina E Riehman-Murphy

Open and Affordable Educational Resources Librarian
Associate Librarian

Department Address

W216 Pattee Library
96 Curtin Road
University Park, PA 16802-1803
Office Phone
215-881-7911
Departmental Phone
814-865-9257 (department)
cer20@psu.edu

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

Her research interests include Open Education/Pedagogy, inclusive learning, and digital literacy.

Teaching Interests

Her teaching interests include information literacy, digital studies, and open pedagogical practices.

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