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GIF image of PDF file. Curriculum Vitae

City: Greensboro, NC
Telephone:
  1-336-854-3034

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Arts / Humanities Literatures
  • Critical Perspectives on LIS
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Intellectual Freedom and Censorship
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Reading and Literacy
  • Reference and Information Services
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Arts / Humanities Literatures
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Reading and Literacy

Dr. Michelle Holschuh Simmons

Lecturer

Michelle Holschuh Simmons has taught at the high school, college, and graduate levels, and she was the Consulting Librarian for the Arts and Humanities at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, for four years. Her article "Librarians as Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory to Move toward Critical Information Literacy," published in Portal in 2005, was awarded the Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award. Her dissertation was a qualitative study of the ways that undergraduate students learn disciplinary language, with special attention paid to the role of academic librarians in this context. Michelle was a recipient of the WISE Excellence in Online Teaching Awardlink goes to non-SJSU web site, and she was was awarded the SLIS Outstanding Teacher Award in 2011.

Michelle lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her husband Bob, who teaches in the Classical Studies Department at UNC-Greensboro, and their four sons, Ben, David, Marc, and Alex.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Ph.D. (Language, Literacy, and Culture) University of Iowa (2007)
  • M.A. (Library and Information Science) University of Iowa (2000)
  • M.A.T. (English) Minnesota State University—Mankato (1995)
  • B.A. (English) College of St. Benedict (1993)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Lecturer (full-time) School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2010-)
  • Lecturer (part-time) School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2007-2009)
  • Adjunct Instructor, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2007-2008)
  • Social Science Dissertation Fellow, University of Iowa (2005-2006)
  • Graduate Instructor, University of Iowa (2004-2005 and 1999-2000)
  • Consulting Librarian for the Arts and Humanities, Cornell College (2000-2004)
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa (Summer 2002)
  • High School English Teacher, Omaha South High School (1996-1999)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

  • Simmons, M. H. (2005). Librarians as disciplinary discourse mediators: Using genre theory to move toward critical information literacy. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 5(3), 297-311.
  • Simmons, M. H. & Iber, M. H. (2002). In search of the missing record: Keyword searching is often not what it seems. Proceedings of the NW Missouri State Brick and Click Libraries Symposium. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED473134)

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