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"Challenges to Diversity and Inclusion for American Librarians of Color: Experiencing Uniqueness and Difference" Libraries in the Digital Age, Zadar, Croatia 14 June 2018, with Kawanna Bright "Understanding Public Libraries’ Conversations: Promises and Challenges of Microblogging Data" 46rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science, Regina, Canada 1 May 2018, with Deborah Hicks and Mary Cavanagh "Student Surveillance in the Age of Learning Analytics: An Inquiry into LIS Syllabi and Student Privacy Policies" Association of Library and Information Science Education, Denver, Colorado 6 February 2018, with Kyle Jones "Problems and Promises of Qualitative Secondary Analysis for Research in Information Science" Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Information Science, Toronto, Canada 2 June 2017, with Jenny Bossaller and Sean Burns "Exploring Experience through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Two Studies of Reference and Information Service from the Practitioner Perspective" Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 17 May 2017 "Listening to a Diverse Community to Create an Inclusive Understanding of Reference & Information Service" Association of Library and Information Science Education, Atlanta, Georgia 19 January 2017, with Kawanna Bright "Discourses of Expertise in Professional Competency Documents: Communicating Across Communities" Association of Library and Information Science Education, Atlanta, Georgia 18 January 2017, with Deborah Hicks "Racial/Ethnic Matching in Information Intermediation" ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference, Zadar, Crotia 21 September 2016, with Kawanna Bright "Advancing Library and Information Science Research with Qualitative Secondary Analysis" International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, London, UK 27 May 2016, with Jenny Bossaller and Sean Burns "Understanding Professionals’ Interventions in Response to User Errors and Challenges" Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland 25 June 2015, with Ji-Won Son "Information Professionals' Reference and Information Practices as Expertise or Skill: An Exploratory Study" Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland 24 June 2015, with Deborah Hicks "Time in the Experience of Reference and Information Services Work" Canadian Association of Information Science (CAIS/ACSI), Ottawa, Canada 3 June 2015, with Sean Burns and Jenny Bossaller "Uncertainty in Reference and Information Service" ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference, Leeds, UK 5 September 2014
"Like being a junkie": Librarians' Metaphors for Reference and Information Service Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA 21 January 2014
Practitioner Beliefs of Reference Librarians in Academic Research Librarians 19th Annual Reference Research Forum, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA 26 June 2011
Inventing the Future by Tinkering with the Past: Roles for Reference Librarians Reference Renaissance: Inventing the Future, Denver, CO 9 August 2010 Philosophy or Fads: What Will Guide Your Reference Practice? Reference Evolution: Envisioning the Future, Remembering the Past (RUSA Preconference), Washington, DC 25 June 2010
Keynote Speaker Tennessee Board of Regents Online Degree Program Librarians Summer Academy. Nashville, TN 24-25 June 2009 "Teachable instants" in instant message reference: Taking the opportunity or taking a pass? 15th Annual Reference Research Forum, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 12 July 2009, with Megan Oakleaf
Is reference dead? A panel of experts discuss the future of reference services (Panelist) Carolinas Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Chapel Hill, NC 14 January 2009 The rep test and other sorting tasks in ILS research Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Denver, CO 22 January 2009, with Phil Edwards
Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends, Denver, CO 5 August 2008, with Josh Boyer, Jean Ferguson, Eric Sessoms, and Pam Sessoms Reference librarians' personal theories of practice: A new approach to studying reference service Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends, Denver, CO 4 August 2008
Research required of freshmen: An evidence-based approach to curriculum-integrated instruction Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice 4th International Conference, Durham, NC 7 May 2007, with Megan Oakleaf View the poster. Using educational theory to enhance virtual reference instruction: A study in progress Association of Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Seattle, WA 15 January 2007, with Megan Oakleaf View the poster. Research required of freshmen: An evidence-based approach to curriculum-integrated instruction SILS 75th Anniversary Doctoral Poster Session. Chapel Hill, NC 21 September 2006 Enhancing services to undergraduates as researchers Triangle Research Libraries Network Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC 28 July 2006, with Suchi Mohanty and Emily Werrell Assessing student learning in the 21st century: The ICT Literacy Assessment 4th Annual Undergraduate Assessment Symposium, Cary, NC 7 April 2006, with Carolyn Rackley Information commons -- Next steps Triangle Research Libraries Network Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC 7 July 2005, with Emily Jackson-Sanborn and Wallace McLendon Who gets the next question? Support staff at the reference desk (Panelist) North Carolina Library Association 56th Biennial Conference, Winston-Salem, NC. (Panelist) 22 September 2005 Building relationships and building tools for information literacy University of North Carolina Asheville Information Literacy Workshop, Asheville, NC 27 May 2004 Making Peer Research Advisors a reality at NCSU Libraries National Diversity in Libraries Conference, Atlanta, GA 5 May 2004, with Laura Blessing and Karen Letarte The impact of digital libraries on reference and instruction at NCSU Libraries University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Scholarly Communication Working Group, Chapel Hill, NC 13 April 2004, with Megan Oakleaf Online Privacy vs. enhanced virtual reference: What do patrons really want? ACRL Eleventh National Conference, Charlotte, NC 13 April 2003, with Megan Oakleaf Virtual reference and patron privacy: What do patrons really want? Virtual Reference Desk Conference, Chicago, IL 12 November 2002, with Megan Oakleaf Emerging technologies: The brave new world of PDAs, virtual reference, and web management Libraries in an Uncertain World: LAUNC-CH Annual Conference, Chapel Hill, NC 18 March 2002, with Wallace McLendon and Jeannie Welch Planning for the future: Our library diversity committee (Moderator) North Carolina Library Association 54th Biennial Conference, Winston-Salem, NC 24 September 2001 Learning as an amusing activity: The First Year College summer reading program at NC State University 18th Annual Conference of the First-Year Experience, Columbia, SC 6 February 1999, with Andrea Atkin |
 Amy VanScoy, MLIS, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Library & Information Studies Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo vanscoy @ buffalo.edu |
