Bio:
Jeremy Donald is a Faculty Technology Liaison at Trinity
University, where he formerly served as an instruction librarian. Working in
tandem with instruction librarians, Jeremy's role is to design and implement
technological solutions that serve to promote information literacy in the
classroom. He also supports Geographic Information Systems by managing the
ESRI ArcGIS site license, providing technical support, curriculum
development assistance, and instruction. Recent and
current projects
include leading the Web Team to develop a new library website; developing a
database of information literacy assignments for the
Expanding Horizons:
Information Literacy in the 21st Century Quality Enhancement Plan;
working alongside members of the Biology department to implement an
HP Mobile Mapping of Field Data grant to use HP tablet PCs in
several Biology and Ecology courses; creating an
online annotated bibliography assignment as part of the
Reading TUgether summer reading assignment for Trinity first-year students;
co-teaching PLSI 3329: GIS & Demographics, an upper division GIS course for
social science majors; and developing Blood on the Stacks, a library
orientation for new students modeled on an alternate reality game (ARG).
Jeremy completed his Master of Science in Library Science at the Catholic
University of America's School of Information and Library Science in 2004.
Education:
MSLS, 2004, Catholic University of America
School of Library and Information Science, Washington, DC
BA, Readership: Libraries, Literature, and the Academic Encounter, 2000, University of Redlands, Johnston Center for Integrated Study, Redlands, CA
Presentations and Publications:
(With Michelle Millet and
David Wilson)
"Information Literacy Across the Curriculum: Expanding Horizons"
Peer-reviewed article in College & Undergraduate Libraries,
Volume
16, Issue
2 & 3 April 2009 , pages 180 - 193
"The 'Blood on the Stacks'
ARG: Immersive Marketing Meets Library New Student Orientation"
Chapter in
Gaming in Academic Libraries, edited by Amy Harris and Scott E.
Rice, 2008, ACRL Publications
Instruction on Demand: Online Technologies to Reach Your Learners
Panel
session, with Celita DeArmond and Jon Luckstead, 2009 Texas Library
Association Conference, Houston, TX
Buy Low, Sell High, Get in
Now: Low- Stakes/Low-Investment Information Literacy Initiatives Pay Off Big
Poster Session, with David Wilson and Steven Hoover, ACRL 2009 Conference, Seattle, WA
(Handout)
Immersive Marketing for Libraries: Alternate Reality Games and Library
Orientations
Presentation at the 2007 EDUCAUSE Annual
Conference, Seattle, WA
GIS As A Web 2.0 Education Tool
Paper presented at the 2007 ESRI Education Users Conference, San Diego, CA
Takin' It To The Streets: Quantitative Literacy,
Public Policy, and GIS in a Service Context
Poster session from the 2007 ALA Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
Reading Between the Contour Lines: A Contextual Approach to GIS Instruction
Poster session from the 2006 ALA Annual
Conference, New Orleans, LA
Supporting
GIS: A Role for Libraries
Transformations: Liberal Arts in a Digital Age Winter 2006
Voting with Your Hands: GIS and Experiential Learning
A paper presented at the 2005 ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, CA