Professional Contributions

2022-2023

  • Brigham Boice '25 (Champlain College), Erica Donnis, Veronica Hill '25 (Champlain College), Amy Rae Howe (Core Division, Champlain College), Kim Harris Thacker (The Ethel Walker School). (2023, March). Experiential learning in the archives. Presentation at the Spring Conference of New England Archivists.
  • Darlene Bialowski (Collections Care & Conservation Alliance), Kathy Craughwell-Varda (Connecticut Conservation Connection), Erica Donnis, Rodney Obien (Keene State College), and Rachel Onuf (Vermont Historical Records Program). (2023, March). Filling the gap: Building communities of practice. Presentation at the Spring Conference of New England Archivists.
  • Emily Crist and Kelly Clark/Keefe (University of Vermont). "A critical phenomenology of whiteness in libraries." Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48.4 (July 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102557
  • Bethany Dietrich and Kristen Hindes (St. Michael's College). "Notes from the pandemic field: Challenge or opportunity?" Journal of Library Outreach & Engagement, 2.1 (July 2022). 
  • Jessica Mattera, Susan Adkins, and Beth Dietrich. Not throwing away our shot: Engaging students in resource evaluation using Hamilton: An American Musical. In M. E. Johnson, T. C. Weeks, & J. P. Davis (Eds.), Integrating Pop Culture into the Academic Library. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

2021-2022

  • Erica Donnis and Rachel Onuf (Vermont Historical Records Program). (2022, June). Cataloging 101. Workshop series sponsored by the Vermont Historical Society and the Vermont Digital Archives Project.
  • Erica Donnis. (2022, March). The Winooski Dome: Uncovering the real story. Invited presentation for Heritage Winooski Mill Museum.

2020-2021

  • Emily Crist, Beth Dietrich, and Nick Faulk. (2021, May). Open(ing) communication: Online students, online faculty, and library outreach. Presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries - New England Chapter and New England Library Instruction Group Joint Conference.
  • Emily Crist. (2021, March). Using critical whiteness to study the experience of race in libraries. Invited presentation for the Vermont Library Association’s First Thursdays Series on anti-racism.
  • Erica Donnis, Lori Podolsky (McGill University), and Jason Wood (Simmons University). (2021, March). Community connections: Implementing collaborative public humanities and citizen archiving projects. Presentation at the Spring Conference of New England Archivists.
  • Susan AdkinsBeth Dietrich, and Jessica Mattera. (2020, December). Evaluation Beyond the Binary: Information Literacy for COR 103. Presentation at NELIG Winter Instruction Swap.
  • Paul Carnahan (Vermont Historical Society), Erica Donnis, and Sarah Rooker (Norwich Historical Society). (2020, November). History is happening now: Collecting the Covid-19 experience. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the New England Museum Association.
  • Erica Donnis and Rachel Onuf (Vermont Historical Records Program), (2020, October). Grants and grant writing for collections care projects. Workshop sponsored by the Collections Care & Conservation Alliance & Vermont Historical Society.
  • Celia Dehais. (2020, July). New discoveries in reference: The 26th annual Reference Research Forum. Invited presentation at ALA Virtual Conference Lighting Talks by the Vermont Department of Libraries.
  • Erica Donnis, Carolyn Frisa (Works on Paper), and Rachel Onuf (Vermont Historical Records Program), (2020, July). Dealing with mold in your collections. Workshop sponsored by the Collections Care & Conservation Alliance & Vermont Historical Society.

2019-2020

2018-2019

  • Erica Donnis, Carolyn Frisa, Emily Phillips, and Marianne Zephir (Woodstock Foundation). (2019, April). Beyond the carton: Thinking outside the box for oversized and three-dimensional materials. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of New England Archivists, Burlington, Vermont.
  • Becky Geller (Northeast Document Conservation Center), Erica Donnis, and Eva Garcelon-Hart (Sheldon Museum). (2019, April). Roadmapping for digital preservation. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of New England Archivists, Burlington, Vermont.
  • Emily Crist, Sean Leahy, and Alan Carbery (University College Cork). (2019, April). "I'd say it's good progress": An ecological momentary assessment of student research habits. Paper presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Emily Crist and Nick Faulk. (2019, April). Academic library impact: New research from ACRL grant recipients. Presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Nick Faulk and Alan Carbery (University College Cork). Using Motivation Theory and Research When Teaching Information Literacy Online. In S. Steiner & M. Rigby (Eds.), Motivating Students on a Time Budget: Pedagogical Frames and Lesson Plans for In-person and Online Information Literacy Instruction. ACRL Press, 2019. 
  • Emily Crist and Libby Miles (University of Vermont). Adapting for inclusivity: Scaffolding information literacy for multilingual students in a first-year writing course. In G. Veach (Ed.), Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies (Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks). Purdue University Press, 2018.
  • Nick Faulk and Jessica Mattera. (2018, November). No Budget, No Deliverable, No Problem: Scrappy web-based UX to inform assumptions about users' dispositions. Presentation at the Library Information Technology Association Forum, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Nick Faulk. (2018). "Bringing scale and structure to the online information literacy program." Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 12(3-4), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290X.2018.1498633
  • Erica Donnis, Carolyn Frisa, Rachel Onuf (Vermont State Archives), Michele Pagan. (2018, October). Collection storage strategies. Presentation at the League of Local Historical Societies & Museums Annual Conference, Woodstock, Vermont.

2017-2018

2016-2017

  • Alan Carbery. "Librarians Aloud Podcast. Episode 14" 2017.
  • Emily Crist and Alan Carbery. "Evidence-based Librarianship: Methods for Researching User Experience." ACRL - New England Chapter, Annual Conference, Burlington, VT. May 12, 2017.
  • Sean Leahy, Alan Carbery, and Faith Yacubian (EHS Division, Champlain College). "Hot Topics: Critical Information Literacy for Global Citizenship, Social Justice, and Community Participation." ACRL - New England Chapter, Annual Conference, Burlington, VT. May 12, 2017.
  • Nick Faulk and Este Pope (Amherst College). "Coconino Community College Goes Online: Navigating Remixed Professional Identities in a Reimagined Library." ACRL - New England Chapter, Annual Conference, Burlington, VT. May 12, 2017.
  • Alan Carbery, Gavin Henning, Rachel Barlow and Rachel Lewellen. Panel Discussion. Value and Impact of Assessment: The Forest and the Leaves. ACRL/NEC Leadership Development Committee, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. April 21st, 2017.
  • Erica Donnis. "Postcards From Church Street." Burlington Free Press, April 20, 2017. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2017/04/29/history-space-postcards-church-street/101072098/
  • Sean Leahy and Emily Crist. (2018, March). Missing ingredients: A reflective, user experience-based approach to understanding the student research process. Presentation at The Library Collective, Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Alan Carbery. "Authentic Information Literacy in an era of Post Truth." Closing Keynote of LILAC (Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference), Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, April 10-12 2017. Recording.
  • Janet Cottrell and Betsy Beaulieu (Core Division, Champlain College).  "Nail, derail, fail: change, uncertainty and ongoing redesign in information literacy instruction."  LILAC (Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference), Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, April 10-12 2017.
  • Alan Carbery. "Fake News is an oxymoron and a LibGuide won't cut it." Invited presentation for the Library Association of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland, April 6th 2017.
  • Alan Carbery and Sean Leahy. "Closing the Loop: Tying longitudinal authentic assessment and evidence-based instructional design to institutional priorities." 2017 ACRL National Conference. Baltimore, MD. March 22nd-25th 2017.
  • Sheila Boland Chira, Emily Crist, Libby Miles and Ben Sienicki. "Beyond the Discourse of Crisis Management: Internationalizing Composition Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, March 17 2017.
  • Emily Crist, et al. "Cultivating Interdisciplinary Relationships: Incorporating Information Literacy in Writing Classrooms, Writing Programs, and Across the Curriculum." Workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, Oregon, March 15 2017.
  • Aaron Nichols, Emily Crist, Graham Sherriff and Megan Allison. "What does it take to make discovery a success?: A survey of discovery tool adoption, instruction, and evaluation among academic libraries." Journal of Web Librarianship 11.2 (2017): 85-104. http://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2017.1284632
  • Erica Donnis, Fields, C., Rathburn, B., and Tamulonis, M. (2016). Moving the Needle: Incremental Steps Towards Emergency Preparedness. Presentation at the annual meeting of the New England Museum Association, Mystic, Connecticut. November 10, 2016.
  • Robert Ferguson, Emily Crist, and Karyn Moffatt (2017). A framework for negotiating ethics in sensitive settings: Hospice as a case study. Interacting with Computers 29.1 (2017): 10-26. http://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iww018
  • Alan Carbery. "Assessing student learning: a rubric-based "e-portfolio" approach to assessment of information literacy." Library Assessment Conference: Building effective, sustainable, practical assessment, Arlington, Virginia, October 31 - November 2 2016.
  • Lynn Connaway (OCLC) and Alan Carbery. "What do we want to know: completing an action-oriented research agenda." Library Assessment Conference: building effective, sustainable, practical assessment, Arlington, Virginia, October 31-November 2 2016.
  • Emily Crist and Alan Carbery. "The NSSE Monster: Scary creature or outreach opportunity." Vermont Library Association, Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference, Castleton University, Castleton, VT. October 21 2016.
  • Alan Carbery, Nick Faulk, and Sean Leahy. "Reaching our online population where they are." Vermont Library Association, Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference, Castleton University, Castleton, VT. October 21 2016.
  • Lauren Olewnik (Castleton University) & Emily Crist. "Research as Engagement: Designing Methodologies for Understanding." Vermont Library Association, Academic & Special Libraries Section Conference, Castleton University, Castleton, VT. October 21, 2016
  • Alan Carbery and Sean Leahy. "From Traditional to Critical: Highlighting Issues of Injustice and Discrimination through Primary Sources." in Pagowsky N. and McElroy K. Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, Volume Two: Lesson Plans. ACRL, 2016.

2015-2016

2014-2015

2013-2014

2012-2013

2011-2012

2010-2011

  • Sarah Cohen, Andy Burkhardt, "Fun, Thoughtful Technology in the Classroom." VLA College & Special Libraries Section Conference, Castleton, VT, June 14, 2011.
  • Andy Burkhardt, Sarah Cohen, "The Librarian Says 'Turn Your Cell Phones ON!'" NELIG Annual Conference, Lowell, MA, June 3, 2011.
  • Janet Cottrell, Christopher Barth (Luther College), Workshop "Bringing the Revolution Home: Recruiting and Retaining the Next-Gen Librarian." ACRL National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2011.
  • Andy Burkhardt, Catherine Johnson (University of Baltimore), Carissa Tomlinson (Towson University), Panel, "In the Spirit of Benjamin Franklin: 13 Virtues of the Next-Gen Librarian." ACRL National Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2011.
  • Andy Burkhardt, "Flypaper For Questions: Using Twitter to Find Questions and Reach Non-Users." Dartmouth October Conference, "Tools to Support Teaching and Outreach: A Mix of the New and the Tried-and-True." Hanover, NH, October 15, 2010.
  • Betsy Beaulieu (Core Division), Janet Cottrell (Library), and Michelle Miller (Academic Affairs), co-presenters.  "We're teaching but are they learning?  Framing a campus conversation."  Association for General and Liberal Studies National Conference, Austin, TX, Oct. 6-9, 2010.
  • AGLS 2010 Exemplary Program Award. Presented to Champlain College on October 8, 2010 by the Association for General and Liberal Studies in recognition of our curriculum-embedded information literacy assessment program.

2009-2010

  • Andy Burkhardt, Lyrasis Next Gen Librarian Award Winner 2010.
  • Janet Cottrell, Michelle Miller, Craig Pepin, and Ellen Zeman, co-presenters, "ePortation: Moving minds, data, and institutions." Chalk & Wire annual conference, "Taking your assessment beyond the portfolio." Durham, NC, June 23-25, 2010.
  • Andy Burkhardt and Sarah Faye Cohen. "Even an Ocean Away: Developing Skype-based Reference for Students Studying Abroad."  Reference Services Review 38.2 (2010): 264 - 273.
  • Andy Burkhardt. "Social media: A guide for college and university libraries." College & Research Libraries News 71.1 (Jan., 2010): 10 - 24.
  • Sarah Faye Cohen, Janet R. Cottrell, and Michelle G. Miller, Co-presenters. "Building brick by brick: A pragmatic approach to measuring impact."  Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference, LILAC 2010.  Limerick, Ireland, March 29-31, 2010.
  • Jennifer Vincent and Sarah Faye Cohen, co-presenters. "ePortfolios: Good for the student, good for the Institution." Pre-Meeting Symposium, "The Search for VALUE: Innovation, Economic Uncertainty, and E-Portfolio Assessment." American Association of Colleges & Universities, Washington D.C., January 2010.
  • Sarah Faye Cohen, ACRL Member of the Week.
  • Paula Olsen, Panelist.  "Reference Round Table:  how reference has changed in college and university libraries, and a look at online tools for tracking reference statistics."  Kreitzberg Library at Norwich University. August 7, 2009.
  • Andy Burkhardt, Presenter.  "Business or Pleasure: Social Networking for Professional Purposes."  Wils Hours Webinar, Madison, WI.  August 4, 2009.

2008-2009

  • Michele Melia and Paula Olsen, Presenters:  "New Tricks (old dog?):  The Information Literacy Program @ Champlain College," NELIG, Portland, ME, June 2009.
  • Sarah Cohen, Janet Cottrell, and Cinse Bonino, Co-Presenters. "Embedding Information Literacy: An Exercise in Inquiry." Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), University of Cardiff, Wales, March 29-April 1, 2009. Winner of the Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences award for an outstanding contribution to the Inquiry-based Learning and Information Literacy strand at LILAC 2009.
  • Andy Burkhardt, Poster Presentation, "Technology Leaders on Campus." ACRL National Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2009.
  • Sarah Cohen, Timothy Miner, and Lauren Nishikawa, Contributed Paper, "Percolating the Power of Play: Information Literacy and Gaming Level Up." ACRL National Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2009.
  • Paula Olsen, Interviewee/Contributor, "Customer Success Case Study" Ebsco Information Services, 2009.
  • Janet Cottrell, Presenter, "Something from Nothing: Bringing New Life to the Library Without New Construction." The Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries October Conference, Small-Scale Library Redesign Projects. Hanover, NH, October 4, 2008.
  • Sarah Cohen, Presenter, "Information Overload: Helping Students Effectively Deal with Information Overload." Association of General and Liberal Studies Annual Conference, September 2008.
  • Cohen, Sarah Faye. "Taking 2.0 to the Faculty: Why, who, and how." College & Research Libraries News 69.8 (Sept., 2008): 472 - 475. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.69.8.8044

2007-2008

  • Cohen, Sarah F. and Cottrell, Janet R. 2008. "Champlain College: Miller Information Commons," in Transforming Library Service Through Information Commons: Case Studies for the Digital Age, edited by D. Russell Bailey and Barbara Gunter Tierney. Chicago: American Library Association. (pp. 111-115)
  • Michele Melia, Co-Presenter with Kat Berry, Bennington College and Larraby Fellows, NE Regional Librarian at CCV. "Library Space - The Evolving Nature of Vermont's Academic Library Webspaces." 14th Vermont Library Conference, May 13 and 14, 2008.
  • Janet Cottrell, Co-presenter with Associate Provost Michelle Miller, "Using e-Portfolios to Support Embedded Assessment of Information Literacy." Making Connections: ePortfolios, Integrative Learning, and Assessment. LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, April 10-12, 2008.
  • Sarah Cohen, Presenter, "Web 2.0: Taking it to the Faculty" Computers in Libraries, Washington, D.C., April 2008.

2006-2007

  • Tammy Miller, Presenter, "Practices and Pitfalls of Training Student Workers." Vermont Library Association Conference, Burlington, VT, May 2007.
  • Sarah Cohen, Poster Presentation, "Take the Joystick: E-Gaming for the Library." ACRL Conference, April 2007.
  • Sarah Cohen, Roundtable Discussion speaker, "Finding Your Career Sea Legs - A Roundtable Discussion on common early career issues, approaches to them, and possible solutions." ACRL Conference, April 2007.
  • Sarah Cohen, Roundtable Discussion speaker, "Cultural collaborations put academic libraries in the campus spotlight." ACRL Conference, April 2007

2005-2006

  • Marie Kascus, Presenter, "Assessment by User Survey." College & Special Libraries section of Vermont Library Association, Conference on "The Many Faces of Assessment: User Surveys, Collections and Information Literacy," Barre VT April 7, 2006.
  • Paula Olsen, Initiator and Co-host, statewide Reference Roundtable. Montpelier, VT, December, 6, 2005.

2004-2005

  • Sarah Cohen, Panel Speaker, "Scoping at a Small College? One School Sorts it Out." ALTCS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, June 2005.

2003-2004

  • Kascus, Marie A., "Fundraising for Smaller Academic Libraries: Strategies for Success." College & Undergraduate Libraries 10.1 (July, 2003): 1-20.
  • Janet Cottrell, Panel Moderator, "Partnering with Provosts," Vermont Library Association Annual Conference, Burlington, VT, May, 2004.

2002-2003

  • Paula Olsen, President; Radka Ballada, Vice-President, Vermont Library Association College & Special Libraries section Conference, "Image of the Librarian. "Featured presenter: Ann Seidl, writer & director of "The Hollywood Librarian" plus a discussion panel including Jessamyn West, author of the early blog librarian.net. Burlington, VT, November, 2002.