Library Faculty/Staff profile for mkirker
Lead, Teaching and Learning Team
Education
- MS - Educational Psychology, George Mason University
- MS - Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- BA - History, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Selected Publications
Forthcoming. Brecher Cook, D., Kirker, M.J., & Smothers, D. (Eds.). (2024). Person-Centered Management in Academic Libraries. Chicago: American Library Association.
Kirker, M.J. (2022). “Am I a teacher because I teach?”: A qualitative study on librarians’ perceptions of their role as teachers. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 22, 335-354. doi: 10.1353/pla.2022.0020
Oberlies, M.K., Kirker, M.J., Mattson, J., & Byrd, J. (2021). Epistemology of Teaching Librarians: Examining the Translation of Beliefs to Practice. College & Research Libraries, 82, 513-529. doi: 10.5860/crl.82.4.513
Kirker, M.J. & Stonebraker, I. (2019). Architects, Renovators, Builders, and Fragmenters: A model for first year students’ self-perceptions and perceptions of information literacy. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 45, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2018.10.009
Kirker, M.J. (2019). “Cultivating teacher-librarians through a community of practice.” In M. Mallon, R. Huisman, L. Hays, C. Bradley, & J. Belanger (Eds.), The Grounded instruction librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (pp. 311-319). Chicago, IL: ACRL Press.
Research Interests
- Teacher-librarian identity
- Teacher-librarian self-efficacy
- Communities of practice for teaching and learning
- Social and cultural capital and academic library usage
Selected Professional Awards
Co-founder, Conference on Academic Library Management
Adjunct Teaching Excellence Award, George Mason University, 2023
Distinguished Library Faculty Award, George Mason University Libraries, 2023
Adjunct "Teacher of Distinction" commendation, George Mason University, 2021
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