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In this episode, we chat with recently graduated MLIS student Carrieann Cahall about their experience leading a research project while still getting their degree, how well their coursework prepared them (or didn’t) for academic research, and how the process has shaped her outlook on her future as an academic librarian.



Guest: Carrieann Cahall (she/they) is a Teaching and Learning Specialist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she supports librarians, like Amber, in curricular and co-curricular instruction. Carrieann is also a recent graduate of the MSLIS program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their research interests include high achiever narratives in academia and the impact of intergenerational trauma on learning.



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Show notes:


Cahall, C., Mitola, R., Heinbach, C., & Sewell, A. (2023). Inclusive or harmful? A critical content analysis of tutorial offerings from R1 academic libraries. Association of College and Research Libraries.


Roth, A., & Turnbow, D. (2021). Equitable but not diverse: Universal design for learning is not enough. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. 


Cahall, C., Mitola, R., Heinbach, C., & Sewell, A. (2022, November). State of inclusivity in tutorials: A critical content analysis of tutorials provided by R1 academic libraries. Presentation at Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium.


Production and editing by Amber Sewell.


Audio mixing by David Ramos Candelas.


Music is Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 

Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.

Description: In this episode, we talk with a team from New York University who have recently published on using collaborative autoethnography as a research method. We learn about how the team chose to implement this practice, lessons learned, and tips for information professionals interested in pursuing autoethnography themselves.

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Guests:

Dawn Cadogan (she/her) is an Assistant Curator and Librarian for Education & Human Development at New York University. Her research interest focuses on the relationship between student motivation, research practices, and information literacy. 

Stephen Maher (he/him), MSIS, LMSW, is an Assistant Curator and the Librarian for Social Work and Psychology at New York University. He holds a Master of Information Science degree, with a concentration in information management and policy, from the University at Albany, State University of New York and is a licensed social worker with a Master of Science degree in Social Work from NYU. Stephen’s research interests center on curiosity and its role in the integration of mental health and social services in libraries as well as information literacy in social work education.

Stacy Torian (she/her) is Assistant Curator and a Librarian for Health Sciences at New York University. She is a graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her interests include critical librarianship, health equity, and poetry as a liberatory force.

Brynne Campbell Rice (she/her), MA, MS, MLIS is an Assistant Curator and Librarian for Health Sciences at New York University.  She holds an M.S. in Adolescent Education (Biology) from the University of Rochester, an M.A. in Food Studies from NYU, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Long Island University’s Palmer School.  A former high school chemistry teacher and current nursing librarian, her research interests focus on information literacy as it relates to science, nutrition, and health.  She is particularly interested in issues of credibility, authority, and ways of knowing at the intersections of health equity and health misinformation.  

Show notes:


Guests’ LOEX presentation, Your Story, My Story, Our Story: Collaborative Autoethnography for Librarians


Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship special issue on the place of teaching in academic librarians work


Cadogan, D., Campbell Rice, B., Maher, S., & Torian, C. (2023). One within many, many within one: A collaborative, dialogical exploration of librarian-teacher identity. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 9, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40956 


Fourie, I. (Ed.). (2021). Autoethnography for librarians and information scientists. Routledge.


Hernandez, K. A. C., Chang, H., & Bilgen, W. A. (2022). Transformative autoethnography for practitioners: Change processes and practices for individuals and groups. Myers Education Press.


Haberstroh, A & Campbell Rice, B. (2024). Health literacy & health misinformation: A multi-dimensional relationship. In E. Vardell & D. Charbonneau (Eds.), Health literacy and libraries. Rowman & Littlefield. 


 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference


NYU SoTL Symposium 2024


Production and editing by Amber Sewell.


Audio mixing by David Ramos Candelas.


Music is Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 


Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.



Citation: Sewell, A. (2024). Ep. 04: Collaborative autoethnography as research method [Audio podcast episode]. The LibParlor Podcast.

In this Parlor Chat, we talk with Emily Ford about her experiences and research on open peer review. We chat about how open peer review helps us re-envision peer review as an act of community, how it can help with reviewer imposter syndrome, and how to address challenges that an open peer review model can face with regard to equity. 

*As a disclaimer, this episode was recorded and edited in December 2023, but due to life events, publication was delayed. I hope your spring semesters are off to a good start!

Have any follow-up questions, or ideas for future episodes? Send them to libparlorpod@gmail.com.



Show notes:


Stories of Open: Opening Peer Review through Narrative Inquiry by Emily Ford


Stories of Open website


ACRL Presents: Opening peer review in LIS webinar


Open peer review: Considerations for authors and reviewers (featuring Zoe Wake Hyde) webinar


Aileen Fyfe: Untangling academic publishing


Peer Review Primer by Emily Ford


Committee on Publication Ethics, Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing


Music is Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions.


Production and editing by Amber Sewell.


Audio mixing by David Ramos Candelas.


Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.



Citation: Sewell, A. (2024). Ep. 03: Open peer review in LIS with Emily Ford [Audio podcast episode]. The LibParlor Podcast. [link to episode page]

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For those who didn’t hear the pre-conference podcast Amber and guest Charissa Powell created for the Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium last year, we are featuring it in The LibParlor Podcast stream! This episode is a behind the scenes look at the creation of the podcast, as well as what it was like to record the first open peer review episode.



Show notes:


Open Peer Review Podcast hosted by Lori Beckstead


The Podcast Studies Podcast, hosted by Dario Llinares and Lori Beckstead



Peer Review Podcasting Part 1: a real-time peer review of scholarly work


Peer Review Podcasting Part 2: reflections



Music from the CLAPS podcast was Lahaina by Blue Dot Sessions


Music was also Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 


2022 CLAPS program




Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.
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In this Parlor Chat, our episodes about demystifying research and scholarship processes, Amber sits down with the Library Writing Cooperative, a group of librarians who have created a space for library workers to share their work and ideas. We’ll learn about how they got started, their First Draft Matchmaker Program, and get a tease about their next initiative, National Article Writing Month!



Show notes:


Editing by David Ramos Candelas.


Music is Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). 


Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.


Library Writing Cooperative website



First Draft Matchmaker program webpage


National Article Writing Month webpage; sign up for NaArWriMo here.


Library Writing Cooperative Twitter account


Library Writing Cooperative Mastodon account


Library Writing Cooperative mailing list



Izenstark, A., Agee, A., Jackson, H., Sandelli, A., & Roberts, L. (2021). So you want to publish: Becoming a researcher. College & Research Libraries News, 82(1), 10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.82.1.10


Ivins T. & Pemberton A. (2019). How to write and get published : a practical guide for librarians. Rowman & Littlefield. https://worldcat.org/en/title/1077517139

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In this pilot episode, host Amber Sewell offers up her instructional design case study about building an augmented reality learning experience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville for discussion. Peer reviewer Charissa Powell gives her critiques and suggestions, and guest host Lori Beckstead provides valuable perspective from outside the discipline.

Lori Beckstead is the co-host and co-producer of The Podcast Studies Podcast and an associate professor of sound and audio at the Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada.

Charissa Powell (she/her) is the Head of the Student Success and Curriculum Partnerships Department at the Library, Museums and Press at the University of Delaware. Some of her research interests include information privilege and feminist pedagogy. She edited, with Ingrid Ruffin, The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education. Charissa is also co-founder and editor of The Librarian Parlor (libparlor.com), a community for researching librarians. You can find her on Twitter @charissaapowell.

Show notes:


Music is Palms Down by Confectionery by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue).
Submission forms for researchers and reviewers available at libparlor.com/podcast.
Apply to become a co-host.
The Podcast Studies Podcast: https://www.podpage.com/podcaststudiespodcast/
Lori’s podcast, Open Peer Review Podcast: https://oprpodcast.ca/
Charissa’s book, The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education: https://www.igi-global.com/book/emotional-self-work-higher-education/243086
Metaverse augmented reality app
LaBrake, M., & Deptula, M. (2018). Reinventing new student orientation with an augmented reality scavenger hunt. Marketing Libraries Journal, 2(1), 96-103.
Transcript available at https://libparlor.com/podcast/.