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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. Michael applies strategic foresight to his understanding of the possible and plausible futures for academic libraries and higher education. This helps to inform his research which centered on information access (collection development and open educational resources) and information literacy instruction program design (digital badges & microcredentials and synchronous instruction). Michael 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:
March 8, 2026
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Assessing Academic Library Collections for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designin…
January 7, 2026
Valuing the Community College Library:
Valuing the Community College Library: Impactful Practices for Institutional Success (2025, ACRL) provides a holistic approach to exhibiting community…
December 21, 2025
Information Literacy and Critical Thinking
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they thin…
November 1, 2025
Algorithmic Saga
In an age when digital media permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding its influence is more critical than ever. Algorithmic Saga: Understand…
October 3, 2025
The War on Tenure
As academia increasingly comes under attack in the United States, The War on Tenure (Cambridge UP, 2025) steps in to demystify what professors do and …
October 3, 2025
Streaming Video Collection Development and Management
Streaming video is not new to the library environment, but recent years have seen an exponential growth in the number of platforms and titles availabl…
May 20, 2025
A Complete Guide to Training Library Staff
Written for library managers and training leaders, A Complete Guide to Training Library Staff (2025, Bloomsbury) presents a comprehensive lifecycle fo…
May 16, 2025
Teaching Copyright
The teaching of copyright and related concepts can easily be overwhelming to instructors who are experts in their field but may have little to no deta…
May 10, 2025
Youth Social Action in the Library
Learn how to take an apolitical, unbiased stance to support students as they pursue research, literature connections, maker activities, and civic enga…
May 7, 2025
Revolutionize Youth Book Clubs
Learn to facilitate modern book clubs devoted to elevating the reading experience through active engagement, resulting in long-term commitment to book…
March 25, 2025
Predatory Data
Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (University of California Press, 2025) illuminates the throughline betwee…
March 2, 2025
Innovative Library Workplaces
Good workplaces require both autonomy--giving employees a sense of ownership over how and where they work--and collaboration in pursuit of common goal…
March 2, 2025
Navigating Choppy Waters
While full- and part-time college faculty and lecturers go about their jobs—doing all that is seen (teaching and publishing) and unseen (class prep, g…
December 21, 2024
Smart University
In Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Lindsay Weinberg evaluates how this latest era of…
December 21, 2024
Data Grab
In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are gr…
December 2, 2024
Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Practices
Academic library hiring can be a bureaucratic and exclusionary process. Inclusive hiring practices can help libraries recenter the people in the proce…
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…