Ginny Moran
info@moranworks.com
Experience
Research & Instruction Librarian for Fine Arts & Humanities and Special Collections Librarian | Macalester College 2020-Present
Research & Instruction Librarian for Fine Arts & Humanities | Macalester College 2011-2020
Faculty Librarian | Minneapolis Community and Technical College 1999-2012
Technology Services Manager | Minnesota Literacy Council 2000-2003
Education
Master of Library and Information Science | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Graduate Certificate, Information Systems | University of St. Thomas
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art | Macalester College
Teaching
Macalester College
- Critical Library and Archival Practices: Introduction to Artists’ Books, Spring 2024
- Theorizing Religion (co-taught with Dr. Erik Davis, and Dr. William Hart), multiple years including Fall 2023
- China on the Map (co-taught with Dr. Rivi Handler-Spitz), Spring 2023
Minneapolis Community and Technical College
- Common Knowledge: A Critical Examination of Intellectual Property, Spring 2013
- Information Ethics & Legal Issues, multiple semesters
- Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting, multiple semesters
- Introduction to Cataloging, multiple semesters
- Library Community & Outreach Services, multiple semesters
- Information Literacy and Research Skills, multiple semesters
Selected Presentations
- “China on the Map: Integrating Visual Literacy and Museum Studies into a Liberal Arts Course,” poster presentation at the Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Mexico City, April 20, 2023
- “Library Work as Vocation: The Hidden Cost of Work as a Calling,” paper presentation at the Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2022
- “Collaborative Change Management Within College Libraries,” co-presented with Becca Pad and Emilee Matthews at the Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, online, May 12, 2021.
- “Insights for the Future: Exploring Trends and Issues in Academic Art Libraries,” co-presented with Becca Pad, Andi Back, and Caley Cannon at the Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 28, 2019
- “Inciting Learning by Doing: Bringing Active Learning into Your Classroom,” co-presented with Eva Sclippa, Courtney Baron, Olivia Miller Piepmeier, Sara Quimby, and Shannon Marie Robinson at the Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, March 27, 2019
- “Strength in Numbers: Library/IT Collaboration to Promote Digital Collections,” co-presented with Alexis Logsdon, Tamatha Perlman, Brooke Schmolke, and Ellen Holt-Werle at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, St. Paul, MN, November 9, 2018
- “Crossing the Unknown Sea: Navigating the Unintended Outcomes of Instruction Assessment.” Panel presentation with Kim Pittman and Talia Nadir at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2017.
- “Video Killed the Library Star? Making Low-Pressure Videos for Your Library,” co-presented a concurrent session with Amanda Mills and Trent Brager at the Library Technology Conference, St. Paul, MN, March 17, 2016 and March 16, 2017
Selected Publications
“Sustaining the Digital Liberal Arts: Institutional Challenges in Looking Beyond Grant Funding,” co-authored with Aisling Quigley, Brooke Schmolke and Louann Terveer in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, second edition, edited by Laura Braunstein, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, and Liorah Golomb, Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. Expected 2024.
“The Caustic Power of Excessive Positivity: How Vocation and Resiliency Narratives Challenge Librarianship,” co-authored with Talia Nadir, ACRL 2021 Proceedings, April 2021.
“State of Academic Art Libraries 2019,” co-authored with Becca Pad, Andi Black, Emilee Matthews, Mary Wasserman, and Caley Cannon for the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS), February 2019.
“Pushing Body Barriers,” Dance Chronicle, vol. 40 no. 1, 2017. p.118-121.
