Expert Profile

Stacey Ewing

Chair, Library West

LB-HUM / SOC SCI-CHAIR | UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Research Terms & Keywords

Research Terms

Educational Technology Humanities Information Science Information Technology Libraries Academic and Research Libraries Library Administration Library Services

Keywords

Accessibility Adaptive Technology Assistive Technology Digital Humanities First-Generation Students Humanities Information Access Information Literacy Information Science Library History Library Instruction

Research Projects

Ends

Title

09-2022

Today's Technology for Accessing FL Newspapers Today's Technology for Accessing FL Newspapers

Biography

Stacey R. Ewing (she/her) serves as the Chair of Library West, the Humanities and Social Sciences branch of the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Library West is one of the largest of six campus branches, houses approximately 1.62 million books and materials, and has sixteen faculty librarians, fourteen full-time staff members, and twenty-five student assistants. Ms. Ewing’s scholarship and grant work is focused primarily on technologies that enhance and support the learning, teaching, and research needs of students and faculty, as well as accessibility services, resources, and technology that help boost student success. Secondary scholarship is centered around digital humanities, with the most recent project involving text mining of the University of Florida Independent Florida Alligator newspaper to construct a historical timeline of transgender awareness and related community involvement on a university campus.

Degrees

CAS, Digital Image Management/Digital Humanities

University of North Texas ▪ 2004
MS, Information Science

University of North Texas ▪ 2004
BA, Art History

University of North Texas ▪ 2001

Publications

Ewing, Stacey, and Colleen Seale. “Out and Open: LGBTQ+ Resources that Defy Censorship.” In Censorship is a Drag: LGBTQ Materials and Programming Under Siege in Academic Libraries. (Editors Jordan Rudd & Jason Phillips). [forthcoming Fall 2024 via Litwin Books & Library Juice Press].

Ewing, Stacey, and Colleen Seale. 2023. “Multimedia: Past, Present, and Future.” In Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science. Edited by David Baker & Lucy Ellis. Elsevier. 15 pages.

Ewing, Stacey. “The Evolution of Library West.” Source: The Magazine of The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries. Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2021, pp. 34-38. https://journals.flvc.org/source/issue/view/5925/213

Hines, A., Elrod, R., Huet, H., Ewing, S., & Freund. L. “Putting the Audience in Charge of the Message: Assessment of Student-Generated Public Relations Campaigns in an Academic Library.” Marketing Libraries Journal 3.2 (Summer 2019): 65-79. http://journal.marketinglibraries.org/summer2019/06_MLJv3i2_Feature_HinesEtAl.pdf.

Hines, A., Huet, H., Ewing, S., & Freund, L. “Team Up: Collaborating with Public Relations Students to Promote Library Subject Specialists.” College & Research Libraries News 78.9 (October 2017): 506-509. http://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/16776..

Hines, A., Ewing, S., Seale, C., & Clapp, M. (2017). “Textbook & OER Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Case Study at the University of Florida in Affordable Course Materials,” In Diaz, C. (2017). Electronic Textbooks and Open Educational Resources, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.

Clapp, M. J., & Ewing, S. R. (2013). “Using Students to Make Instructional Videos: Report of an Initial Experiment.” The Reference Librarian, 54(4), pp. 332-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2013.806192.

Ewing, S. R., & West, J. L. (2013). "Downsizing stress: Dealing with budgetary and staff cuts in the library." In C. Smallwood & L. Wade (eds.), Job Stress and the Librarian: Coping Strategies from the Professionals. McFarland and Company. pp.134-141.

Ewing, S.R. (2013). “'The Big Write-in': A Collaborative Outreach Event for Writers During National Novel Writing Month." In C. Smallwood (ed.), Bringing the Arts into the Library.

Johnson, M., Clapp, M. J., Ewing, S. R., & Buhler, A. (2011). "Building a Participatory Culture: Collaborating with Student Organizations for Twenty-first Century Library Instruction." Collaborative Librarianship, 3(1), 2-15.