Emily Rimland

Head of Library Learning Services
Librarian

Office Address

W216 Pattee Library
Office Phone
814-863-7355
Departmental Phone
814-865-9257 (department)
elf113@psu.edu

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

Emerging technologies applied to library services, instructional technologies

Teaching Interests

information literacy

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