Celebrating Community, Collaboration, and Culture

Loriene Roy

Celebrating Community, Collaboration, and Culture

Highlights for ALISE

Professor, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin.

Professor, Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.

Director, “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything,” A Reading Promotion Project for Schools

on Reservations.

Principal Investigator: “Honoring Generations: Developing the Next Generation of Tribal

Librarians,” Recruiting and Training Librarians for the 21st Century Grant ($341,294), U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Courses: “Public Libraries,” “Information Resources in the Humanities,” “Information Resources in the Social Sciences,” and “Library Instruction and Information Literacy.”

Selected Publications:

“Creating Opportunities and Opening Doors: Mentoring Students of Color,” in Wheeler,

Maurice, ed., Unfinished Business: Race, Equity, and Diversity in Library and Information Science Education (Metuchen, NJ; London: Scarecrow, 2005), 131-146.

“Diversity in the Classroom: Incorporating Service-Learning Experiences in the Library and Information Science Curriculum,” Journal of Library Administration 33 3/4 (2001): 213-228.

(with Eric Novotny) “How Do We Learn? Contributions of Learning Theory to Reference Service and Library Instruction,” The Reference Librarian 69/70 (2000): 129-139.

(with Dr. Brooke Sheldon, eds.) Library and Information Studies Education in the United States. (Library and Information Science Education series, edited by Gary E. Gorman and Maxine K. Rochester). London: Mansell, 1998.

Selected Honors:

2005 Mover and Shaker, Library Journal.

2005 Texas Exes Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin.

Outstanding Alumna 2002, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona.

Tocker Foundation Outreach Grant ($100,000), 2002-2003.

Joe and Bettie Branson Ward Excellence Award for Research, Teaching, or Demonstration Activities that Contribute to Changes of Positive Value to Society, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

Tocker Foundation Outreach Grant ($29,000), 2000.

Phi Kappa Phi, Certificate for Dedicated Service in the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, The University of Texas at Austin Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1997.

James W. Vick Texas Excellence Award for Academic Advisors, GSLIS, The University

of Texas at Austin, 1992.

Texas Excellence Teaching Award for Advisors, GSLIS, The University of Texas at

Austin, 1991.

Certificate of Appreciation, Austin Music Industry Council, for work completed by the advanced reference classes related to the music industry, 1990.

Texas Excellence in Teaching Award, GSLIS, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988.

Selected Presentation Venues:

Selected Conferences:

ALA, ALISE, American Theological Library Association, Goteberg International Book Fair, IFLA, International Indigenous Librarians Forum, Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa, PLA, Sequoyah Research Center Symposium, Transborder Library Forum, World Indigenous Peoples Conference On Education.

Selected Libraries and LIS programs:

Alliance Library System; Auckland University; Dominican University; GSLIS-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Huston-Tillotson College; Illinois State University; National Library of New Zealand; San Antonio Public Library; SIRLS-University of Arizona; SLIS-San Jose State University; SLIS-U of South Florida, South Wales School of Information Systems, Technology and Management; University of Waikato; Te Wananga o Raukawa; and Victoria University of Wellington.

Current Advisory Boards:

El dia de los ninos/El dia de los libros, Advisory Committee, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.

Heart of the Community: The Libraries We Love, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005-.

International Children’s Digital Library. Advisory Board, 2002-.

WebJunction.org. OCLC. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Advisory Committee, 2002-.

Sequoyah Research Center. Advisory Board, 2001-.

Texas State Library and Archives, TexShare Advisory Board, 2005-.

Selected Service:

ALA, Committee on Education, Education Assembly,

Spectrum Initiative: Jury, Steering Committee, Leadership Institute Committee

Feel free to contact me to arrange for class visits. Phone: 512-471-3959. E-mail: . Web site: lorieneroy.com. Blog: lorieneroy.blogspot.com.