About Megan Lowe @ ULM - Curriculum Vitae

 July 2003 to current – Reference librarian/assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Monroe 

Duties include providing reference assistance approximately 5-9 hours/week; scheduling and conducting bibliographic instruction sessions and one-on-one research sessions; creating and maintaining academic subject guides for select departments; serving as a subject specialist/library liaison for Art, Communication Studies, Dance, English, Communication Studies, and Theatre, and Freshman Year Seminar classes; collection development for those schools/departments I serve as a liaison to;  creation and maintenance of resource web sites for those departments; and other duties as assigned.

                                                                                                       
November 2002 to June 2003 – Coordinator for Library Instruction/reference librarian, University of Missouri-Rolla 

January 2002 to August 2002 – Graduate assistant, Reference Department, University of Southern Mississippi

Duties included providing reference assistance approximately 10 hours/week; conducting bibliographic instruction sessions; creation and maintenance of several subject guides on the library’s web site (including one for grants and financial aid for graduate students); office work (answering phones, copying, collating, etc.); some shelving; work with the documents delivery department (known as Eagle Express);  and other duties as assigned.

August 2001 to December 2001 – Graduate assistant, School of Library Science, University of Southern Mississippi

Duties included basic office work such as answering phones, copying, collating, and running errands (mail retrieval, delivering materials, etc.); assisted with the maintenance of the School’s (now defunct) jobs web site (they now run a listserv that provides the same service); maintaining and shelving materials in the School’s private children’s literature collection; and other duties as assigned.

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EDUCATION

• M.A.-English/Creative Writing, University of Louisiana-Monroe, (anticipated) May 2008
• M.L.I.S., University of Southern Mississippi, August 2002
• B.A. in English, Mississippi College, December 2000

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

• Louisiana Libraries Association
• Membership Committee, Member
• Scholarship Committee, Member
• LALINC
• Digital Reference Committee, Chair
• ACRL-LA
• Bylaws, Member
• Mentoring, Chair
  

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OTHER ORGANIZATIONS/COMMITTEES 

• Faculty Senate
• Parliamentarian
  
• Constitution & Bylaws, Member
• Elections, Member
  
• Honors Council (for University Honors Program)
• Ex Officio Member
• Library Stragetic Planning Committee
• Member
• Library Webpages
• Member
  

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

• ARBA reviewer since 2003.
• Destination Imagination judge since 2004.
• ACT room supervisor, 1998 - 2006 (site closed).
• Christian Thingy, present it right
• Conference presentations
• ACRL-LA 2003: "Scratching Backs: Establishing and Maintaining Faculty Relationships," author/presenter [Program presentation]
• LUC 2004: "Digital Reference Initiatives in Louisiana," moderator
• LLA 2006: "But Why Do We Gotta? : Teaching About Plagiarism and Its Importance," author/presenter [Poster presentation]
• LLA 2007:  "Regrettable Research: Designing Research Assignments to Avoid Common Student Pitfalls - For Faculty" author/presenter [Program presentation]
• LUC 2007: "Digital Reference Update: Going & Coming" co-author/co-presenter [Program presentation]
  
• LLA 2008: "Let's Get It Started: the Start/Stop Essay at ULM" author/presenter [Program Presentation]
  

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RESEARCH INTERESTS *

• Plagiarism and copyright
• Information literacy
• Faculty-librarian relations
• Peer-tutoring
• Electronic resource usage (particularly amongst library scholars)
• Web usage in the library setting
• Electronic resources management
• Digital libraries

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 PUBLICATIONS

• Lowe, M., & Lea, B. (2004, March). When worlds collide: Libraries and writing centers. Academic Exchange Quarterly 8 (1): 134-138.
• Lowe, M. (2005, Summer). Building column. Louisiana Libraries, 68 (1): 19-20.
• Lowe, M. (2006, Fall.). The Start/Stop essay in instruction and information literacy at University of Louisiana at Monroe. Louisiana Libraries, 69 (2):  7-11.
• Lowe, M. (2007, Summer). The Start/Stop essay in bibliographic instruction. Loex Quarterly, 34(2).
• Currently working on part two of the start/stop essay study on self-reported student research behavior / student perceptions of research behavior.