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About Michael LaMagna
Dr. Michael LaMagna is the Information Literacy Program & Library Services Coordinator and Professor of Library Services at Delaware County Community College. Previously, he served as the Coordinator of Electronic Resources at a small liberal arts college. Dr. LaMagna research, writes, and presents on topics related to academic libraries and higher education. Specifically, open education, digital learning, information literacy, digital badging and micro-credentials, and copyright education.. Dr. LaMagna received his EdD in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University, MLS from St. John’s University, MA in History from Villanova University, and BA in History from Susquehanna University.NBN Episodes hosted by Michael:
October 17, 2024
Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens …
October 6, 2024
Moral Codes
Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs a…
September 25, 2024
Conducting Original Research for Your Library
Conducting Original Research for Your Library (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024) is a concise manual for professionals in the field, this book hel…
August 28, 2024
Creating a Person-Centered Library
Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons (Bloomsbury, 2023) provides a comprehensive overview of various s…
August 20, 2024
Information Literacy and Social Media
Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristi…
July 31, 2024
Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications
Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns across the scholarly communications system. It shines …
July 11, 2024
Curating Community Collections
A primary question for many librarians, directors, and board members is how to evaluate diversity in a collection on an ongoing basis. Curating Commun…
July 7, 2024
Library 2035
Building on the success and impact of Library 2020: Today’s Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow’s Library by Joseph Janes, Library 2035: Imagining t…
July 2, 2024
Trolling Ourselves to Death
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy …
May 11, 2024
Just Here for the Comments
We all sometimes ‘lurk’ in online spaces without posting or engaging, just reading the posts and comments. But neither reading nor lurking are ever pa…
April 9, 2024
Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despit…
March 23, 2024
Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse
Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandem…
February 28, 2024
Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan
Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries (Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2023) by Katy B. Mathuews and Ryan A. Spellman h…
February 21, 2024
Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies
Authorship represents a new area of policy-related work within higher education research administration, funding agencies, and scholarly journal publi…
February 14, 2024
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication
The Discourse of Scholarly Communication (Lexington Books, 2023) examines the place and purpose of modern scholarship and its dialectical relationship…
January 17, 2024
Academic Librarianship
Academic Librarianship: Anchoring the Profession in Contribution, Scholarship, and Service (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) by Marcy Simons is needed now …
January 13, 2024
The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy
For nearly 200 years, people have questioned the identity of Shakespeare; however, this debate is often dismissed by most scholars as “just a conspira…
December 12, 2023
Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries
Privacy is not dead: Students care deeply about their privacy and the rights it safeguards. They need a way to articulate their concerns and guidance …