About

I provide leadership and direction for the management and supervision of several organization-wide functions and activities including, but not limited to, the University Libraries’ Institutional Repository; open access journal development and publication; the core collection of open educational resources; and the Digital Commons including its public display. I am also responsible for the the development and implementation of the University Libraries Strategic Plan and the University Libraries outreach program.

Education

• Ph.D., Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri, 2016.
• M.L.I.S, Library & Information Science, University of Alabama, 2011.
• B.A., History, Rhodes College, 2009.

Work Experience

• Associate Dean for Innovative and Scholarly Engagement, Associate Professor, University Libraries, University of Memphis, March 2023-Present
• Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Associate Professor, University Libraries, University of Memphis, September 2022-March 2023.
• Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Assistant Professor,  University Libraries, University of Memphis, December 2020-August 2022. 
• User Interfaces Librarian, Assistant Professor, University Libraries, University of Memphis, November 2016-November 2020.

Teaching Experience

• Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida School of Information, LIS 3261 Introduction to Information Science, 2022-2024. 
• Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, ISLT 3450: Introduction to Educational Research, 2023. 
• Adjunct Professor, University of Memphis Instruction and Curriculum Leadership Department, ICL 7731 Introduction to Bibliography, 2022-2023. 
• Adjunct Professor, University of Missouri School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, ISLT 7314: Reference Sources and Services, 2019- 2023. 

Refereed Journal Articles

• Haggerty, K, Harrington, C. & Scott, R. (2022). Integrating Library Resources in a Learning Management System: Exploring Instructor Obstacles and Motivations.” College and Research Libraries.
• Haggerty, K. & Scott, R. (2019). Do, or Do Not, Make Them Think?: A Usability Study of an Academic Library Search Box. Journal of Web Librarianship, 13 (4), pp. 296-310.
• Bossaller, J. & Haggerty K. (2018). We are not police: Public librarians’ attitudes about making and intellectual property. Public Library Quarterly. 
• Bishop, B.W., Haggerty, K.C., & Richardson, B.E. (2015). Usability of E-government mapping applications: lessons learned from the U.S. National Atlas. International Journal of Cartography.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

• Scott, R, Harrington, C & Haggerty, K. (2019). An Overview of Data Stewardship Week in an Academic Library. College & Research Libraries News. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.

Book Chapters

• Harrington, C. & Haggerty, K. (2022). Publications Oversight Board for Open Access Journals at the University of Memphis: A Case Study. Academic Libraries and Collaborative Research Services. Ed. Carrie Forbers. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Haggerty, K. (2021). Searching for Porcupines: Using illustrations to teach information literacy. In Teach Library and Information Literacy with a Sense of Humor: Why (and How to) Be a Funnier and More Effective Library Instructor and Laugh All the Way to Your Classroom. Ed. Vaidya, K. Curious Academic Publishing.
• Tawfik, A., Haggerty, K. & Vann, S. (2020). Rethinking the Role of the Library in an Era of Inquiry-Based Learning: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Approaches. In Intersections Across Disciplines: Interdisciplinary and Learning. Ed. Hokanson, B., Exter, M., Grincewicz, A., Schmidt, M., Tawfik, A. Springer International Publishing.
• Haggerty, K. (2020). Intellectual Property Guidelines for the Digital Humanities. Chapter in the Routledge Handbook for Digital Humanities Research Methods. Ed. Stuart Dunn & Kristen Schuster.  London: Routledge Handbooks Online. 
• Scott, R., Haggerty, K. (2019). Teaching Copyleft as a Critical Approach to "Information has Value" in Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses: Critical Approaches . Ed. Angela Pashia & Jessica Critten. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.
• Stewart, K. & Haggerty, K. (2019). International Student Perceptions of Libraries: Experiences from the Middle East and North Africa. Chapter in The Globalized Library: American Academic Libraries and International Students, Collections, and Practices, Yelena Luckert with Lindsay Taylor Inge, Editors. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.

Recent Conference Presentations

• Haggerty, K. (2024, October 7). Preserving Scholarship Legacies: Using Digital Commons Exhibits (DCX) to Showcase Faculty Accomplishments. Digital Commons North American Conference 2024.
• Haggerty, K. (2023, October 9). Challenges to Building an Open Educational Resource Collection in the University of Memphis Digital Commons. Digital Commons North American Conference 2023.
• Haggerty, K. (2023, April 28). Publishing in Memphis: Using bepress Digital Commons to Promote Faculty Publications at the University of Memphis. 2023 Southern Miss Institutional Repository Conference.
• McDonald, E. & Haggerty, K. (2022, April 12-14). Using bepress Digital Commons to Showcase Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD): the Migration Process. 2022 Tennessee Library Association Conference (TLA).
• Haggerty, K. & Harrington, C. (2022, March 14-17). Challenges of Classroom Film Screenings and How Libraries Can Help. Electronic Resources & Libraries Virtual Conference.