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EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Information Studies, 2016
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Committee Chair: Marcia Mardis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2016 -Present
Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences
Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Advisor: Victor R. Lee
Adjunct Professor, School of Library and Information Science January May 2016
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia
Editorial Intern, Journal of Education in Library and August 2012 August 2013
Information Science (JELIS), Tallahassee, Florida
Librarian, Lee County Library, Leesburg, Georgia July 2008 July 2012
Library Assistant, Lee County Library, Leesburg, Georgia August 2006 June 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles:
Phillips, A. (2014). More than just books: Librarians as a source of support for cyberbullied
young adults. Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, 4(1). Retrieved from
http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/2014/05/more-than-just-books-librarians-as-a-source-of-
support-for-cyberbullied-young-adults/.
Phillips, A. (2014). Systematic marketing facilitates optimal customer service: The marketing
audit of a rural public library system. Public Library Quarterly, 33(3), 1-16.
Phillips, A. (2015). Facebooking it: Promoting library services to young adults through social
media. Public Library Quarterly, 34(2), 1-20.
Lee, V. R., Lewis, W., Searle, K. A., Recker, M., Hansen, J., & Phillips, A. (Accepted).
Supporting interactive youth maker programs in public and school libraries: Design
hypotheses and first implementations. In P. Blikstein & D. Abrahamson
(Eds.), Proceedings of IDC 2017. Stanford, CA: ACM.
Edited Books:
Lee, V. R. & Phillips. A. (In Progress). Reconceptualizing libraries: Possibilities for information
and learning sciences. Abington, U.K.: Routledge
Book Chapters:
Phillips, A. (2016). But what are teens doing online? Teenagers and digital media. Digital media
usage across the lifecourse. Surry, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Mon. L., & Phillips, A. (2015). Becoming social: Exploring library services for adults and teens
in social spaces. Advances in Librarianship, 39, 241-268.
Phillips, A. (2016). Highlights-The life of a Young Adult Library Services Association Board
Fellow. Young Adult Library Services (YALS), Summer Issue, 4-6.
Phillips, A. (2013 September 22). How you too can transition from a librarian to a doctoral
student. Hack Library School. Retrieved from
http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/tips-for-transitioning-from-librarian-to-
phd-student/.
Phillips, A. (2014 February 28). Dont panic! Its only your first semester as a doc student.
Overworked TA. Retrieved from http://www.overworkedta.com/blog/2014/2/26/dont-
panic-its-only-your-1st-semester-as-a-doc-student.
Phillips, A., Skinner, J., Frasier, Z., Spears, L., & Yu, C. (2014 June 28). Why we decided on the
PhD. Hack Library School. Retrieved http://hacklibraryschool.com/2014/06/28/why-we-
decided-on-the-phd.
Phillips, A. (2014 July 31). Politics schmolitics! What does politics have to do with libraries?
Letters to a Young Librarian. Retrieved from
http://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/07/politics-schmolitics-what-do-
politics.html.
Phillips, A. (2015 December 30). Top 5 YA and libraries research (but mostly from Pew
Research Center). Young Adult Library Services Blog. Retrieved from
http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2015/12/30/top-5-ya-and-libraries-research-in-2015-but-mostly-
from-pew-research-center/.
Phillips, A. (2016 January 13). What does Radical Change mean for YALSA and teen services?
Young Adult Library Services Blog. Retrieved from
http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2016/01/13/what-does-radical-change-mean-for-yalsa-and-teen-
services/.
Coleman, L.-E. & Phillips, A. (2016 July 26) The empathetic museum and the empathy of
librarians. Museum Commons. Retrieved from
http://www.museumcommons.com/2016/07/empathetic-museum-empathy-
librarians.html.
Phillips, A. (2017 March 20). Transforming teen services: The empathetic librarian. Young Adult
Library Services Blog. Retrieved from http://linkis.com/yalsa.ala.org/blog/2/mwMGj.
Phillips, A. (2017 April 19). Transforming teen services: Getting teens passionate about civics (it
can happen!). Young Adult Library Services Blog. Retrieved from
http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2017/04/19/transforming-teen-services-getting-teens-passionate-
about-civics-it-can-happen/
PRESENTATIONS
Refereed Papers at Conferences:
Phillips, A. (2015 January 29). Digital citizenship and digital literacy as means of preventing
cyberbullying among young adults. Presented during the Information Ethics Special
Interest Group panel session at the Association of Library and Information Science
Education (ALISE) Annual Conference 2015 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2014 October 8). Lets Facebook it: Promoting library services to young adults
through social media. Presented during the Library Research Seminar VI at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Phillips, A., & Anderson, A. (Accepted). Opportunities for youth library services: Cyberbullying
and patrons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Will be presented during the Library
Research Round Table Forum at ALA Annual Conference 2017 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2015 June 28). You have my empathy: What does empathy look like in the library?
Presented during the American Library Association Annual Conference 2015 in San
Francisco, CA.
Hansen, J., Phillips, A., Lee, V., & Recker, M. (2017 May 19). Makerspaces and school libraries:
From librarianship practices to implementation strategies. Presented at Utah Library
Association Annual Conference, Sandy, UT.
Phillips, A., Lee, V. R., Hansen, J, & Recker, M. (Accepted). Librarians in transition:
Investigating CSCL potentials within the school library. In Victor Lee (Chair), Libraries
as emerging spaces for computer-supported collaborative learning in schools and
communities. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Computer Supported Collaborative
Learning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Phillips, A., Lewis, W., Hansen J., Lee, V. R., & Recker, M. (Accepted). Bringing making to
rural and small libraries: Design hypotheses for youth maker program development. Will
be presented during Digital Media and Learning (DML) at the University of California,
Irvin in Irvine, California.
Invited Presentations:
Phillips, A. (2015 May 6). Cyberbullying and the public librarian: How can I help? Presented as
a webinar for Public Library Association.
Phillips, A. (2016 June 20). Assessing and Improving your Library's Social Media Presence.
Presented at the Jewish Library Association Annual Conference 2016 in Charleston,
South Carolina.
Phillips, A. (2014 January 21). More than just books: Librarians as a source of support for
cyberbullied young adults. Presented during the Works-in-Progress poster session at the
Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in Philadelphia, PA.
Phillips, A., Skinner, J., & Chatham, J. (2015 January 27). Cats in Space: Educating the public
while searching for cat likeness in NASA satellite images. Presented during the Works-in-
Progress poster session at the Association of Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE) Annual Conference 2015 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2015 January 27). What do librarians really think? Exploring librarians
perceptions, attitudes, and use of social media. Presented during the Work-in-Progress
poster session at the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Annual Conference 2015 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2016 March 22). The empathetic researcher: Applying research methods from
anthropology to LIS. Presented during the Poster Session at the iConference 2016 in
Philadelphia, PA.
Wood, J., Phillips, A., & Mardis, M. (2016 July). Public and school libraries in the Florida
Panhandle: Straddling the Digital Divide. Presented during the Poster Session at 8th
International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries in
London, UK.
Phillips, A., & Anderson, A. (2017 January 17). Cyberbullying and young patrons with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). Presented during the Works-in-Progress poster session at the
Association of Library and Information Science (ALISE) Annual Conference 2017 in
Atlanta, GA.
Phillips, A. (2014 January). More than just books: Librarians as a source of support for
cyberbullied young adults. Presented during the Works-in-Progress poster session at the
Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) in Philadelphia, PA.
Phillips, A., Skinner, J., & Chatham, J. (2015 January 27). Cats in Space: Educating the public
while searching for cat likeness in NASA satellite images. Presented during the Works-in-
Progress poster session at the Association of Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE) Annual Conference 2015 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2015 January 27). What do librarians really think? Exploring librarians
perceptions, attitudes, and use of social media. Presented during the Work-in-Progress
poster session at the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Annual Conference 2015 in Chicago, IL.
Phillips, A. (2016 January 7). The empathetic librarian: Rural librarians as a source of support
for cyberbullied rural young adults. Presented during the Work-in-Progress poster session
at the Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual
Conference 2016 in Boston, MA.
Phillips, A. (2016 March 22). The empathetic researcher: Applying research methods from
anthropology to LIS. Presented during the Poster Session at the iConference 2016 in
Philadelphia, PA.
Wood, J., Phillips, A., & Mardis, M. (2016 July). Public and school libraries in the Florida
Phillips, A., & Anderson, A. (2017 January 17). Cyberbullying and young patrons with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD). Presented during the Works-in-Progress poster session at the
Association of Library and Information Science (ALISE) Annual Conference 2017 in
Atlanta, GA.
Cain, R., & Phillips, A. (2017 April 13). From participant to mentor, A case study of youth
interest development in a Makerspace. Presented at Student Research Symposium at Utah
State University in Logan. UT.
Phillips, A. (2013 September 19). More than just books: Librarians as a source of support for
cyberbullied young adults. Presented at 21st Century Literacies Lecture Series at Florida
State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
TEACHING
Adjunct
Masters Level:
Undergraduate Level:
Lead Instructor
Undergraduate Level:
Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Level:
Masters Level:
Foundations of Information Professionals, School of Information,
Florida State University (Summer 2015)
Guest Lecturer
Information Needs of Young Adults, Masters level course, School of Information, Florida State
University (Fall 2014)
Information Ethics for the 21 st Century, Undergraduate level course, College of Communication
and Information, Florida State University (Fall 2015)
Information Needs of Young Adults, Masters level course, School of Information, Florida State
University (Fall 2015)
Assessing Information Needs, Masters level course, School of Information, Florida State
University, (Fall 2015)
Information Ethics for the 21 st Century, Undergraduate level course, College of Communication
and Information, Florida State University (Spring 2016)
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at particular risk for cyberbullying,
as they often have difficulty understanding social norms and communication patterns. These
differences in understanding communication can make these individuals targets for bullying
behaviors. As demonstrated in popular press and recent research, cyberbullying is a pervasive
problem among young adults ages 12 to 18. However, cyberbullied youth with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) have received little interest from researchers. Through a mixed method approach,
my colleague, Amelia Anderson in the School of Information at Florida State University, and I
are investigating how public librarians can better prepare individuals with ASD to navigate
communications in the online environment both to avoid cyberbullies and to appropriately
address conflict when cyberbullying occurs.
Frequently, K-12 school librarians are tasked with digital citizenship instruction for the
students their school. Tying in with information literacy instruction, digital citizenship involves
teaching youth safe and responsible online behaviors. However, available resources for planning
and conducting this type of instruction typically focuses on a classroom teacher audience. School
librarians have smaller windows for engaging with students which makes instruction challenging
to organize and perform. This study focuses the perceptions, expectations, and concerns of
school librarians from a single state in Southeastern United States. Based up the results of an
state-wide online survey, suggestions for developing librarian specific digital citizenship
resources that can advance.
Although librarians have begun incorporating Makerspaces into the library space,
Makerspaces and making have received little research attention in library and information
science literature. As part of a collaborative, multi-year IMLS funded study, this research
investigates the impact of librarian identity, resources, and image on making programming and
construction of Makerspaces. By offering a framework for understanding school librarians within
the context of Making, this paper will provide a lens in which school librarians engagement with
Making and makerspaces can be better represented.
The Making of a School Librarian: A Case Study of an Early Career School Librarian
As part of their everyday work, school librarians takes on a variety of roles and
responsibilities often learning on the job. This case study focuses on the experiences of one early
career middle school librarian over the course of a year. Drawing from observations and
structured interviews, this research illustrates the ways in which a school librarian engages with
students, creates the library spaces, buildings connections, and understands librarian roles,
providing a picture of a young librarian in the field. Additionally, taking from these findings,
recommendations will be made for potential improvements within library and information
science program regarding education of school librarians.
The Empathetic Librarian: Rural Librarians as a Source of Support for Rural Cyberbullied
Young Adults
The primary focus of this dissertation is the integration of two perspectives: young adult
perceptions of librarian support for cyberbullied youth and librarians perceptions of the support
they provide cyberbullied youth. The integration of these perceptions will culminate in practical
recommendations regarding cyberbullying support for school and public librarians. Using video
autoethnography and interviews with rural young adults, school librarians, and public librarians,
my research highlights the types of support cyberbullied young adults need and the ways in
which librarians can provide this support. I successfully defended my dissertation on Monday,
February 8, 2016 and I am currently working on journal articles based on this dissertation.
Where Do We Go From Here? An Investigation into Future Directions of Library Services for
Young Adults
Additionally, my teen participants discussed their library use (or lack thereof) in the
interviews for my dissertation. Because of these interviews, I have become interested in the
future of library services for youth. Recently, the Young Adults Library Services Association
(YALSA) released a report, The Future of Library Services For and With Youth: A Call to
Action which encouraged aspects of my dissertation work and continues to serve as an
indication that more research is needed into the future of youth services. I am excited about the
possibilities of learning more about what changes need be made to library services for young
adults and how we can best meet the needs of this young and vibrant age group.
NASA Space Apps Challenge, 1st Place, Making Awesome, Tallahassee, FL, 2015
NASA Space Apps Challenge, 2nd Place, Making Awesome, Tallahassee, FL, 2014
FUNDED GRANTS
Collaborator, 21st Century Literacy Lecture Series Interdisciplinary Team,
Florida State University, 2012-2013
Congress of Graduate Students (COGS) Travel Grant, Florida State University, 2015
SERVICE
Professional:
Library Representative, Lee County Family Connection, 2009-2012, Lee County, Georgia
Board Member, Lee County Family Connection, 2010-2012, Lee County, Georgia
Member, Youth Services Special Interest Group, Association of Library and Information Science
Education
Chair, American Library Association 2017 Local Arrangements Committee, Young Adult
Library Services Association, 2016-2017, American Library Association
Committee Member, Governance Committee, Young Adult Library Services Association, 2016-
2017, American Library Association
Mentor, Young Adult Library Services Association, 2016-2017, American Library Association
Committee Member, Research Journal Advisory Board, Young Adult Library Services
Association, 2017-2018, American Library Association
Doctoral:
Committee Member, Midwinter Paper Presentation Committee, Young Adult Library Services
Association, 2014-2016, American Library Association
Co-Convener, Doctoral Student Special Interest Group, 2014-2015, Association of Library and
Information Science Education
Chair, Doctoral Student Special Interest Group, 2015-2016, Association of Library and
Information Science Education
Undergraduate:
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL
ORGRANIZATIONS
American Library Association (ALA)