Catherine Meals, an Associate Professor and Reference & Assessment Librarian at the 麻豆精品, integrates her expertise in personal librarianship, information literacy, and research pedagogy to foster student empowerment and resilience, while advancing collaborative faculty-librarian partnerships to enhance academic success.
Experience
Education
Master of Library and Information Science, University of Maryland Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College
Roles
Reference & Assessment Librarian, 麻豆精品, 2018-Present Associate Professor, 麻豆精品, 2018-Present Library Associate, District of Columbia Public Library, 2015-18 Research Associate, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, 2009-14 Research Analyst, Service Employees International Union, 2004-09
Expertise
Academic libraries Affective aspects of research Critical librarianship Embedded/personal librarianships Information literacy Information literacy instruction Library assessment Open Educational Resources Reference services See also:
Research Focus / Works in Progress
Personal/embedded librarianship; research assignment design; research pedagogy; and affective outcomes in information literacy instruction
Leadership
Washington Research Library Consortium, Sharing Expertise Committee, 2018-Present
Impact
Selected Publications
Meals, C., Kowalski, M., & Rusk F. Where we come in: Faculty research pedagogy and implications for librarian practice. Libraries and the Academy. [In press]
Meals, C. (2022). Resilience in research: Confronting failure in information literacy instruction. In L. Charkoudian, L. Corwin, & J. Heemstra (Eds.), Confronting failure: Approaches to building confidence and resilience in undergraduate researchers. Council on Undergraduate Research.
Meals, C. (2022). Evaluating the impact of personal librarians on academic and affective outcomes. College & Research Libraries, 83(1), 25-44.
Kowalski, M., Meals, C., & Rusk, F. (2021). Creating student-centered instructional activities rooted in the Framework. College & Research Libraries News, 82(3), 114-116, 120.
Selected Presentations
Meals, C. and Rusk, F. (2024). When to call a librarian: Faculty research assignment design and implications for faculty/librarian collaboration. Association of General & Liberal Studies 2024 Constitute, Portland, Oregon.
Kowalski, M., Meals, C., & Rusk, F. (2024). Building research assignments to develop student voices & empower students as scholars. Young Rhetoricians Conference, Virtual.
Recognitions
Institute for Research Design in Librarianship Scholar, 2019
