Emily Reed
Department Address
351 Olmsted Drive
Middletown, PA 17057-4850
About Me
- Provides library instruction, research consultations, and other services to the School of Public Affairs.
- Coordinates first-year library instruction for Penn State Harrisburg students. Courses include ENGL 015, ENGL 030, ENGL 083, and ESL 015.
Coordinates library resources, services, and outreach for international students at Penn State Harrisburg.
Academic Support Areas
Subject Expertise
- Contemporary Topics
- Criminal Justice
- Health Policy and Administration
- Homeland Security
- Political Science
- Public Administration
- Public Policy
Publications
Teaching College Students How to Seek Missing Voices: Possible Roles for AI, World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) Papers and Presentations, 2026
Stemming the Tide: Transforming Academic Deficiency Bias into Equity Literacy, 2026 LOEX Conference Proceedings (Library Orientation Series No. 59), 2026
Getting Started with Trauma-Informed Reference Consultations, RUSQ: A Journal of Reference and User Experience, 2026
Inclusion and Empathy Are Not Enough: Cultivating Student Belonging in the Academic Library Through Compassion, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Examining the Influence of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors on Disparities in Health Care App Usage: Protocol for a Systematic Scoping Review, JMIR Research Protocols, 2025
Only One Information Ecosystem, or Many?: Examining How Information Privilege in the Framework Impacts International Students, College and Research Libraries News, 2024
Transplanting Cultural Capital and Community Cultural Wealth from the Education Field to the LIS Field: Harvesting Its Library Instruction Potential, 2024 LOEX Conference Proceedings (Library Orientation Series No. 57), 2024
Using the “Humble Inquiry” Approach to Cultivate Flourishing Librarian-Learner Relationships, 2024 LOEX Conference Proceedings (Library Orientation Series No. 57), 2024
Overview of cultural capital theory's current impact and potential utility in academic libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2023
The impact of cultural capital on searching as strategic exploration in incoming first-year students, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2023
How Should Cultural Capital Theory Inform Library Practice?, ACRL 2023 Proceedings, 2023
Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Library Instruction for International Students, Journal of Library Administration, 2023
From passive listeners to active participants: Lessons learned from the pandemic about engaging international students during library instruction, College and Research Libraries News, 2022
Remote Reference Consultations Are Here to Stay, Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
Transformative Collaboration of Library Services and Outreach for International and Diverse Students: A Multiple Campus Personal Librarian Pilot Case Study, 2021 LOEX Conference Proceedings (Library Orientation Series No. 54), 2021
International students and COVID-19: The initial response from the Penn state libraries, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Other Publications
Chapters
Cultivating Identity Safe Libraries and Revealing the Academic Library's Hidden Curriculum: An Approach for Building Confidence in International Students, Flourishing in the Academic Library: A Framework for Fostering Student Belonging, Confidence, and Connection, 2027
Supporting High Impact Undergraduate Research Practices as a Social Sciences Liaison Librarian: Cases, Benefits, and Challenges, Teaching Information Literacy in Political Science, Public Affairs, and International Studies, 2026
Identifying Unheard Voices, Critical Information Literacy Applications for All Libraries, 2025
Information Literacy in Political Science Research Methods Courses: Perspectives from a Librarian, The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy, 2021
Voter Check-Up, Literacies in Action: Recipe Book for Literacies Programming, 2020
Others
Best Free Reference Websites, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2017