Instructional Assessment Librarian, University of South Alabama, Mobile AL present.

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1 Jason Ezell Marx Library University of South Alabama 5901 USA Drive North Mobile, AL Education PhD in American Studies. University of Maryland, College Park. In Process. M.S. in Information Science. University of Tennessee School of Information Science, Knoxville, TN M.A. in English. The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Concentration: 20 th Century British Literature. B.A. in English. Maryville College, Maryville, TN Concentration: 20 th Century American Literature. Graduated magna cum laude. Thesis: The Artful Sentence and Domestic Ghosts: Art and Morality in the Major American Novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Director: Susan Schneibel, PhD. Library/Information Science Experience Instructional Assessment Librarian, University of South Alabama, Mobile AL present. Duties: Designing and implementing learning-centered assessment projects for library instruction; tracking institutional assessment initiatives to inform library instructional assessment; facilitating the development and collection of lesson plans, class activities, and learning objects (including assessment instruments) for library instruction; facilitating in-house professional development concerning library instruction; proposing pedagogies appropriate to specific learning populations that are identified as part of program expansion; working with Instruction Coordinator to provide leadership on designing and developing a strategic library instruction program, including course-integrated instruction and larger information literacy education; serving as Liaison to the First Year Course and to the History; Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work; and Political Science & Criminal Justice departments; designing, coordinating, and delivering instruction to designated courses; providing reference services electronically and in person. Distance Learning & Resource Sharing Librarian, Towson University, Towson MD

2 Distance Learning: Leading and coordinating library support to online and offcampus learners; assessing the effectiveness of library support to distance learners; serving as the primary liaison to online and distance learners while collaborating with subject librarians for discipline-based support. Resource Sharing: Managing interlibrary loan and document delivery services for the library; assessing the effectiveness of library resource-sharing services; developing, implementing, and evaluating resource-sharing plans, policies, procedures, processes, and services; monitoring the resource-sharing budget; supervising the interlibrary loan/resource-sharing staff; Liaisonship: Conducting library-related instructional support to the English department, with a particular focus on curricular planning and learning assessment for the first-year composition program; conducting collection development, instructional support, and subject guide creation for English, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Integrated Homeland Security departments. Director of Quality Enhancement Plan in Information Literacy, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN Duties: Implemented an integrated information literacy instructional program; coordinated and conducted information literacy instruction; assessed student learning and program success; promoted information literacy throughout the university; oversaw support services for information literacy instruction, including online resources, outreach, peer tutoring, student awards, and professional development opportunities. Graduate Assistant, UT Department of Distance Education & Independent Study, Knoxville, TN Duties: Reviewed and organized marketing research reports for distance education program; conducted educational market and user-centered research within program; oversaw use of Web 2.0 resources for program. Humanities Librarian-Specialist, Memphis Public Library & Information Center, Memphis, TN (Specialist in literature, film, philosophy, world religions, creative writing, community outreach, and teen services.) Duties: Conducted reference services for the Humanities Department, ordered and maintained collections in specialist fields, conducted outreach relevant to teens in area high schools and community centers, instructed computer and research workshops, designed and facilitated subject-related programming (including a teen technology camp, a poets workshop, and a foreign film series), participated in and chaired a number of committees. Information & Referral Agent, Memphis Public Library & Information Center,

3 Memphis, TN Duties: Fielded ready reference and social agency referral questions on the phone and in the library, helped maintain a database of area social agencies and clubs, did outreach with area social agencies, and served on a number of committees. Evening Circulation Supervisor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN Duties: Supervised and trained student circulation workers, oversaw evening circulation activity and instructor reserves, fielded light reference questions, operated and maintained the media room, and attended to fines and fees. Archival Assistant (part-time), The Kevin Barry Perdue Archive of Traditional Culture, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Director: Charles Perdue, Jr Duties: Wrote abstracts of newly collected materials and entered them into a database, filed new materials, and fielded light reference questions. Other Academic Experience First-Year Advisor, Towson University Assistant Professor of English & Director of SEWS (Sequenced Enhanced Writing Skills) Program, Freshman Composition, Writing about World Literatures and Cultures. Lincoln Memorial University. Academic Year: Instructor, Composition, Speech, Freshman Research Seminar, Experiential Education, and ESL. Maryville College, Maryville, TN. Academic Year: English Teacher, 7 th -8 th Grades. St. Agnes-St. Dominic School, Memphis, TN. Academic Years: Instructor, Composition, Speech, Freshman Research Seminar, and ESL. Maryville College, Maryville, TN. Academic Years: Awards ALA Assessment in Action Grant (Librarian Lead), Towson University. Towson, MD. April, 2013-June, Martin Duberman LGBT Visiting Scholarship, New York Public Library. New York City, New York. July, UT School of Information Sciences 2009 Best Paper Award, Information Behaviors, Practices, or Styles?: Implications for First-Year Academic Information Literacy Instruction. University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences. Knoxville, TN. May, The Gary R. Purcell Scholarship for Leadership in the Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences. Knoxville, TN. Academic Year: Graduate Assistantship, University of Tennessee, Department of Distance Education & Independent Study. Knoxville, TN. Academic Year:

4 Graduate Assistantship, University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences. Knoxville, TN. Academic Year: Special Skills Languages: Basic reading knowledge of German. Computer Skills: Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); online searching with a spectrum of search engines and major databases; automated library systems; online course management software and virtual learning environments; ILLiad; Libguides; Web 2.0 tools including social networking, wikis, and blogs; basic photo editing software, basic HTML. Instructional Skills: Basic information and computer literacy; library user education and orientation; writing and speech; first-year research with interdisciplinary topics; experiential learning; ESL; literature; creative writing; diversity and civic engagement. Professional Activity Committee Work: Instruction Committee (USA 2014-)Steering Committee, Office of Academic Innovation (Towson ); Online Learning Work Group (Towson ; wrote white paper Online Learning Support Services ); Assessment Committee (Towson, ); Chair, Hiring Committee, Library Tech II Interlibrary Loan (Towson 2013 & 2011); Hiring Committee, Residency Librarian (Towson 2013); Hiring Committee, Assistant Director of Writing Center (Towson 2013); USMAI ILL Subgroup ( ; co-facilitated first annual Maryland Interlibrary Loan Supervisors Meeting); Information Literacy Program Working Group ( ); USMAI Resource Sharing Task Group ( ); Towson University Blackboard Teaching Circle ( ); Graduate Programs Assessment Committee (Towson ); Library Marketing Committee (Towson ); Chair, Library Communications Task Force (Towson ); Library Technology Committee (Towson ); Chair, SEWS Committee (Lincoln Memorial ); General Education Committee (Lincoln Memorial ); Academic Council (Lincoln Memorial, ); Institutional Effectiveness Committee (Lincoln Memorial ); Strategic Planning Committee (Memphis Public, ); Teen Tech Camp (Memphis Public ; Co-Coordinator, 2007); Teen Services Team (Memphis Public, ); Readers Advisory Group (Memphis Public, ); Diversity Committee (Memphis Public, 2001). Facilitated Information Literacy Faculty Workshops: Writing across the Disciplines Faculty Workshop (USA, May 2015); ENGL 110/Composition Faculty (LMU, Aug. 2009); NURS 115/Foundations of Nursing Faculty (LMU, May 2010); ENGL 210/Writing About World Literatures and Cultures Faculty (LMU, May 2010). Conferences & Professional Development Experiences: LOEX Conference (Nashville, TN: May 2013); Distance Library Services Conference (Memphis, TN: April 2012);

5 Georgia Conference on Information Literacy (Savannah, GA: Sept. 2011, Oct & Sept. 2009); Southeastern Library Association (Little Rock, AR: Sept. 2010); ACRL Immersion -- Information Literacy Program Track (Burlington, VT: July 2010); Re- Viewing Black Mountain College International Conference (Asheville, NC: Oct. 2009); Tennessee Libraries Association (Nashville, TN: April 2009; Memphis, TN: April 2006). Peer Review: Review presentation proposals for Georgia Conference on Information Literacy ( ). Presentations: Conference Presentations, Research Instruction Made to Order: Library- Faculty Pedagogical Collaboration USA Conference on Teaching and Learning, Mobile AL (May 2015); Teaching in Two Steps: The Effectiveness of Using Electronic Modules + Consultations in a First-Year Composition Course Poster Presentation at ALA, Las Vegas NV (June 2014); Tailoring a One-Two Teaching Approach: Combining Electronic Modules and Consultations in the First-Year Composition Classroom Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA (Aug. 2013), Teaching as Virtual Repertory: Tuning Embedded Instruction to the Online Course LOEX, Nashville, TN (2013), Cook Library Teach-Around: Using Blackboard s SafeAssign Towson University (2013), Cook Library Teach-Around: Online Embedded Librarianship Towson University (2012), Students Informing Students: Setting Up an Information Literacy Peer Tutor Program Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA (Sept. 2011), The Very Idea!: Teaching Information Literacy Concepts in the Liberal Arts Environment Georgia Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA (Oct. 2010), Information Literacy Panel Discussion Southeastern Library Association, Little Rock, AR (Sept. 2010), Un/Doing History: Martin Duberman s Black Mountain College and Queer Pedagogy and Historiography Reviewing Black Mountain College International Conference, Asheville, NC (2009); Behavior, Practice, or Style?: A Philosophical Approach to Information Seeking Theory and Information Literacy Instruction, Tennessee Libraries Association (2009); and Non-Fiction Readers Advisory, Tennessee Libraries Association (2006). Articles: Signs & Spirits: The Intimate Politics of Tennessee Moonshining & Queer Space at Short Mountain. Powerlines (forthcoming 2014). Interlibrary Loan from a Distance Learning Perspective: Trying a Hybrid Position. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve (December 11, 2013). Martin Duberman s Queer Historiography and Pedagogy. Journal of Black Mountain College Studies (March 23, 2011). Cole Swensen, Gustaf Sobin, and John Taggart. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (2005).