Maura A. Smale
Chief Librarian, Professor, New York City College of Technology
I’m Chief Librarian at City Tech and I teach in the Grad Center’s Interactive Technology and Pedagogy program. I’m interested in how and where students do their academic work, game-based learning in higher ed, open teaching and scholarship, and critical librarianship.
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718-260-5497 · msmale@citytech.cuny.edu
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Academic Interests
critical librarianship, information literacy, library instruction, information-seeking behavior, academic culture, game-based learning in higher education, open access, scholarly communication, anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, instructional technology
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Education
Master of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute MA, PhD, Anthropology, New York University BA, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Publications
Cohen, M., Smale, M. A., Cirasella, J., Tobar, C., and Daniels, J. (2013). Speaking As One: Supporting Open Access with Departmental Resolutions. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2(1), eP1099. Smale, M. A. (2012). Get in the game: Developing an information literacy classroom game. Journal of Library Innovation, 3(1), 126-147. Smale, M. A. (2011). Learning through quests and contests: Games in information literacy instruction. Journal of Library Innovation, 2(2), 36-55. Cirasella, J., and Smale, M. A. (2011). Peers don’t let peers perish: Encouraging research and scholarship among junior library faculty. Collaborative Librarianship, 3(2), 98-109. Smale, M. A. (2010). Demystifying the IRB: Human subjects research in academic libraries. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 10(3), 309-321. Smale, M. A., and Regalado, M. (2009). Using Blackboard to deliver library research skills assessment: A case study. Communications in Information Literacy, 3(2), 142-157.
