Emily Rimland
About Me
Leads the vision for information literacy, teaching, and learning at the University Libraries and directly manages and guides the scope, strategy, and team members of the Library Learning Services department.

Research Interests
Teaching Interests
Publications
Design principles for digital badges used in libraries, Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
Employer perceptions of critical information literacy skills and digital badges, College and Research Libraries, 2016
Assessing affective learning using a student response system, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2013
Digital Gaming, Alumni Libraries, 2010
Transitioning to corporate librarianship, Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, 2008
Science Documentaries at Your Library: Two Penn State Programs, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2008
7 Things You Need to Know About Facebook Applications, 2007
Using the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program (WOREP) to Improve Training and Reference Services, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007
del.icio.us, Interview (Weekly Tech Tip), 2007
For Your Enrichment: Ranganathan's Relevant Rules, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2007
Reaching students with Facebook: data and best practices, Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship, 2007
Other Publications
Chapters
Collaboration on a Grand Scale: Creating a highimpact educational orientation experience through campus and library partnerships, Planning Academic Library Orientations: Examples and Strategies From Online Tutorials to Scavenger Hunts, 2018
Collaboration on a Grand Scale, 2018
Micro-credentialing, Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases, 2016
Teacher learning journeys: A design case study of a learner-centered stem digital badging system, Digital Badges in Education, 2016
If you build it will they come? The importance of collaboration and marketing in developing and promoting mobile services, M-Libraries 4 From margin to mainstream - mobile technologies transforming lives and libraries, 2013
Using an Alternate Reality Game to Engage Students in Learning, 2012
USING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING TOOLS FOR REFERENCE AND OUTREACH, 2010
Incorporating Emerging Technologies into First-Year Experience Credit Information Literacy Courses, Best Practices for Incorporating Information Technology in First Year Experience Courses, 2010
Using Online Social Networking Tools for Reference and Outreach, Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship, 2010
Blogging: Creating An Online Community, The Library Instruction Cookbook, 2009
Others
Use digital badges to scaffold and guide student learning, University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning, 2020
Library Technology Report: Micro-credentialing and Digital Badges, 2019
The Making of a Micro-credential, American Libraries Magazine, 2019
ALA Annual Program Report for AASL/ACRL Interdivisional Committee on Information Literacy, College and Research Library News, 2010
Using the Social Web to Promote and Enhance Information Literacy, ACRL/Instruction Section Current Issues Discussion Digest, 2008
Do we do it well? A bibliographic essay on the evaluation of reference effectiveness, Reference Librarian, 2007
Ranganathan's relevant rules, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2007
Two New Members Gain Insight on Instruction, NMRT Footnotes, 2006