Sarah Hartman-Caverly

Reference and Instruction Librarian
Associate Librarian

Office Address

Thun 107
Departmental Phone
610-396-6339 (department)
smh767@psu.edu

About Me

Sarah Hartman-Caverly is an associate librarian at Penn State Berks, where she liaises with students and faculty in the Engineering, Business and Computing division. She earned her MS in Library and Information Science and MS in Information Systems from Drexel University.

Academic Support Areas

Berks Engineering, Business and Computing Division

Research Interests

The compatibility of human and machine autonomy from the perspective of the library profession’s commitment to intellectual freedom and expertise in data management technologies, data governance, and fair information practices.

Teaching Interests

Course-integrated information literacy instruction, including search strategy, source evaluation, information interpretation and synthesis, intellectual property, and academic integrity and information ethics. Additional standalone workshops on topics related to intellectual freedom, including privacy and confidentiality, big data and personal data governance, surveillance and the chilling effect, censorship, and freedom of expression and the common good.

Subject Expertise

  • Accounting
  • Business and Economics
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Finance
  • Hospitality Management
  • Information Sciences and Technology
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Mechanical Engineering

Publications

What is privacy pedagogy for? Situating privacy in the purpose of the university, New Library World, 2025

AI and the innovative marketing educator: Integrating AI into digital and social media marketing education, Marketing Management Association, 2025

Curiosity, Controversy, and Intellectual Courage: Proceedings of the HxLibraries Symposium, Spring 2024, Heterodox Libraries, 2024

Digital Shred: Case Study of a Remote Privacy Literacy Collaboration, College and Research Libraries, 2023

A Scoping Study of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Research in Tourism and Hospitality, 2023

“The Da Vinci Code for IP research”: Case study of a course-integrated educational escape room for entrepreneurship education, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review, 2022

"Food chemistry": High-stakes experiential entrepreneurship education in a pop-up restaurant project, Entrepreneurship Education, 2022

Privacy Literacy: From Doomscrolling to Digital Wellness, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022

Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory To Teaching Practice, Forty-ninth Annual LOEX Conference Proceedings (Library Orientation Series No. 54), 2021

Exfiltration! Gamifying CI instruction with a virtual escape room, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review, 2021

Long tail metaphysics: The epistemic crisis and intellectual freedom, IFLA Journal, 2021

Remodeling library collections: Designing a Discovery Lab for student engagement, 2020

Privacy literacy instruction practices in academic libraries: Past, present, and possibilities, IFLA Journal, 2020

Human nature is not a machine: On liberty, attention engineering, and learning analytics, Library Trends, 2019

Redefining roles and responsibilities: Implementing a triage reference model at a single service point, Journal of Access Services, 2016

Brevity, complexity, availability: Extrapolating patron preferences from video analytics, College and Research Libraries News, 2015

Integrating e-Books into Academic Libraries: A Literature Review, Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 2015

DIY ERM (Do-It-Yourself Electronic Resources Management) for the Small Library, Serials Librarian, 2014

Reports of conferences, institutes, and seminars, Serials Review, 2013

Using qualitative assessment protocols to evaluate a new library discovery service, Computers in Libraries, 2013

Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars, Serials Review, 2012

Other Publications

Blogs

Purple-haired people eaters, 2025

When is a nothingburger just a nothingburger?, 2025

The Long Tail Wags the Dog: Being a Ghost Story of Continuing Resolution, 2025

On Not Dismantling Libraries, 2024

We're Not Like Them - Pump the Breaks on Doxing Bad Takes, 2024

How Big is Libraries' Insider Threat Problem?, 2024

Make Book Bans Boring Again, 2024

Experiments in the Laboratory of Democracy: A Book Discussion Guide to Cancel Wars, 2024

It's Love Data Week. Do You Know Who's Touching Your Bits?, 2024

CFP: HxLibraries Symposium: Curiosity, Controversy, and Intellectual Courage, 2024

ventured in the slipstream, 2023

What is a “white man idea”?, 2023

Conservatives Censor Where It Counts, 2023

"You can't have social justice without intellectual freedom": Spring 2023 Symposium with Dr. Emily Knox, 2023

The lost decade, 2023

Hold your identity up to the light, 2023

"Reject the evidence of your eyes and ears", 2022

Nominations Still Open for IFRT Awards!, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2022

A librarian, a priest, and a prison warden walk into a bar: On libraries, neutrality, and soulcraft, 2022

When ethicists opt out: The failure of campus COVID mandates, 2022

Foundations of Information Literacy: A Book Review, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2022

Get active: New IFRT Chair Rhonda Evans Shares Her Plans, Priorities, and Passion, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

From challenge to recharge: Preparing your library board to uphold intellectual freedom, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

Explore intellectual freedom in these #ALAAC21 sessions!, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

“So that teachers may freely teach and students may freely learn”: Safeguarding the future of academic freedom with Henry Reichman, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

Antiracism, revisited: Considerations for antiracist frameworks from BIPOC thinkers, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

To preserve heterodoxy, protect the ‘incomputable self’, 2021

“My head is sort of private”: The Twilight saga as privacy parable, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

Social justice and intellectual freedom webinar presented (free!) by ALA Intellectual Freedom Round Table, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2021

The future of intellectual freedom: IFLA, FAIFE seek comment, article proposals, American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom, 2021

#BannedBooksWeek By the Numbers: Making Virtual-First Count, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

Shelter in Headspace: Survival Tips for the Information War, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

“Defending Scoundrels”: 4 Moral Arguments for 4chan, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

Escape The Dead End Of Censorship! A Virtual Escape Room Adventure… Plus More Banned Books Week Activities, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

An invitation to danger: Perspectives on intellectual freedom and information war, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

“Most respectful of the truth”: Exploring open-mindedness with Mark Lenker, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

Vitamin P: Why privacy is good for you (and good for society, too), American Library Association, 2020

“The Impact of Covington Will Be the Whole World”: Doxing, Privacy, and Free Speech in the Age of Pervasive Tech, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

“Fundamental to life”: Library workers, advocates share predictions, freedom to read experiences ahead of National Library Week, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

From lawyers to language practices: Two hip-hop professors and the living legacy of 2 Live Crew, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

Church-Pike 2.0: How fake news enabled real surveillance abuses, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, 2020

Academe, heal thyself: Reflections on the free speech executive order discussion at ACRL, Intellectual Freedom Blog, 2019

Books

Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases, Association of College & Research Libraries, 2023

Chapters

Lateral Privacy Literacy: Peer-led Professional Privacy Literacy Learning Experiences, 2023

The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program, Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases, 2023

Conclusion: Privacy work is library work, Practicing privacy literacy in academic libraries: Theories, methods, and cases, 2023

Ideation, concept and design, A Pop-up Restaurant Business Guide for Capstone Hospitality Entrepreneurship Education, 2022

TRUTH Always Wins: Dispatches from the Information War, 2019

Our 'special obligation': Library assessment, learning analytics, and intellectual freedom, Academic libraries and the academy: Strategies and approaches to demonstrate your value, impact, and return on investment, 2018

Our "Special Obligation": Library Assessment, Learning Analytics, and Intellectual Freedom, 2018

Version control, 2017

Version control, The Self as Subject: Autoethnographic Research into Identity, Culture, and Academic Librarianship, 2017

A Hard DDA's Night: Managing a Consortial Demand-Driven Acquisitions Program for E-Books, 2014

A hard DDA’s night: Managing a consortial PDA program, Customer-Based Collection Development: An Overview, 2014

Book/Film/Article Reviews

Burke, Colin B. America’s Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age., Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2019

Magazine/Trade Publications

(A)I Think I Love You: Getting It On In The Age Of Algorithm, Root Quarterly, 2024

An Invitation, a Love Song, a How-to Manual: Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries | Peer to Peer Review, Library Journal, 2023

The Failure of FERPA, Inside Higher Ed, 2023

Marching Orders: the Covid infodemic, Root Quarterly, 2021

Posters

Lights, camera, LEARN!: Video tutorials for point-of-need instruction , 2014

Others

Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent, Digital Library Federation (DLF), 2024

Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI, Digital Library Federation (DLF), 2024

High-stakes experiential learning in a hospitality entrepreneurship pop-up restaurant project, International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education, 2021

Muckraking 2.gonz0: Reframing alternative independent media., 2017

Fact, False, or Just Flawed: Critically Examining News in the Age of Truthiness, 2017

Digital scholarship: All of the questions, 2017

The ECHO Project: Academic libraries and oral history, 2017

Student Preferences for eBook Collections, 2015

Encyclopedia of primary prevention and health promotion (2nd edition) (Review), Reference Reviews, 2015

Health and society in video (Review), Reference Reviews, 2015

Discovery and the Future of the Catalog, 2014

Strategies for inclusive library discovery service evaluation, 2014

Health care systems around the world: A comparative guide (Review), Reference Reviews, 2014

Ethnic groups of the Americas: An encyclopedia (Review), Reference Reviews, 2014

World energy crisis: A reference handbook (Review), Reference Reviews, 2013

Encyclopedia of terrorism (Review), Reference Reviews, 2013

DIY ERM (Do-It-Yourself Electronic Resources Management) for the Small Library, 2013

Encyclopedia of video games: The culture, technology, and art of gaming (Review), 2013