Eric Novotny
Office Address
Academic Support Areas
Research Interests
Subject Expertise
- History
- African American History
- Asian American Studies
- Asian Studies
- Middle East Studies
Publications
"Pennsylvania Perspectives on the 2016 Election: Collecting Social Media Data Around Significant Societal Events", Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2017
Tales from a new (virtually) embedded librarian, Library News, 2016
From inferno to freedom: Censorship in the Chicago public library, 1910–1936, Library Trends, 2014
"Bricks without Straw": Economic Hardship and Innovation in the Chicago Public Library during the Great Depression, Libraries and the Cultural Record, 2011
Hard choices in hard times: Lessons from the great depression, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2010
Conference report: Happy trails: Building a user-centered online library, Serials Librarian, 2008
Using the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program (WOREP) to Improve Training and Reference Services, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007
If we teach, do they learn? The impact of instruction on online catalog search strategies, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
I don't think i click: A protocol analysis study of use of a library online catalog in the internet age, College and Research Libraries, 2004
Library services to immigrants: The debate in the library literature, 1900-1920, and a Chicago case study, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2003
How do we learn?: Contributions of learning theory to reference service and library instruction, Reference Librarian, 2001
Evaluating electronic reference services: Issues, approaches and criteria, Reference Librarian, 2001
Performances
The Civil War Era in the Stacks, University Park, PA 16801, 9/1/2011
Other Publications
Blogs
Historians and Personal Digital Archiving, Scholarly Workflow Blog, 2013
Books
Assessing Reference and User Services in a Digital Age, 2013
Chapters
Evaluating electronic reference services: Issues, approaches and criteria, 2013
Book/Film/Article Reviews
The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier, Reference and User Services Quarterly
Review of "Aliens in Popular Culture", RUSQ Digital Supplement, 2021
American Immigration: An Encyclopedia of Political, Social, and Cultural Change, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2014
Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation and Integration, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2013
Everyday Information The Evolution of Information Seeking in America, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Encyclopedia of American Immigration, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2011
Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2011
The Martin Luther King Jr. Encyclopedia, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2009
Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2009
Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2007
Editorials
Introduction, Reference Librarian, 2006
Preface, Reference Librarian, 2006
Foreword/Postscripts
Introduction, 2013
Preface, 2013
Others
COVID-19 and Innovation: Accessing Microforms in a Pandemic, Serials Review, 2021
Introduction to Issue 1.1: Welcome from the Editors, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2017
Years Ago in the Historical Digital Collegian, 2010
Finding United States historical images in print and online, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2005
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 8), Online and CDROM Review, 1996
NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: SOCIAL SCIENCE, HUMANITIES, NEWS AND GENERAL (ISSUE 7), Online and CDROM Review, 1996