Amy Barlow

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Amy Barlow
Department, Office, or School
James P. Adams Library
Council of ΢Ȧ
  • Associate Professor

Amy is the subject librarian for Political Science and the Humanities at ΢Ȧ. She is a 2022 Scholar of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship, past Rhode Island Council for the Humanities grant recipient, and past American Library Association Emerging Leader. Her research explores topics pertaining to collections-based learning, public history, and digital humanities. She enjoys teaching students how to approach their research with equal parts creativity, discipline, and resourcefulness.

Education

MA in History, University of Rhode Island 
MLIS, University of Rhode Island
BA in Anthropology, University of Rhode Island

Selected Publications

“.” College & Research Libraries News, vol. 85, no. 2, February 2024.

“Distant Reading as Library Pedagogy: Lessons for the Literary Studies Classroom.” , edited by H. Rempel and R. Hamelers. Chicago: ACRL Press, 2023. 

“” Boston Globe, February 4, 2022.

“Ę.” RhodeTour.org, 2022.

“.” The Academic Minute: A WAMC National Production, June 21, 2021.

“.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 32, no. 2, (2020): 87-93. 

“.” In The Experiential Library: Transforming Academic and Research Libraries through the Power of Experiential Learning, edited by P. McDonnell, Elsevier, 2016: 27-42.

“.” Proceedings of the 43rd National LOEX Conference (No. 48), 2015: 1-6.

“.” Reference & User Services Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 4, (2013): 283-6.

Courses

FYS 100 Raid the Collections: Making Discoveries in ΢Ȧ Collections