Karen Nourse Reed is an Associate Professor within MTSU's James E. Walker Library. She is the library's academic liaision to the College of Education and Department of Psychology; she also manages the Womack Curriculum Collection, a library unit devoted to K-12 teaching materials. Karen came to MTSU from southwestern Virginia where she was the sole librarian for a Title-I designated middle school of over 1000 students. She approaches education as a ministry, having experienced early in her career the power which school librarians have to effect meaningful assistance to young people. Karen holds a Master of Library & Information Studies from UNC-Greensboro and a Master of Science in Education from Radford University. She received her doctorate through MTSU's Literacy Studies program. Her research interests include innovative programming within academic libraries, as well as K-12 school librarian advocacy.

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Reed, K. N. & Miller, A. (2020). Applying gamification to the library orientation: A study of interactive user experience and engagement preferences. Information Technologies and Libraries (ITAL).  

Reed, K. N. (2020). Application of the Teacher Citizenship Behavior (TCB) theory to the extra-role work of school librarians. School Libraries Worldwide, 26(1), 48-60.

Reed, K. N. & Oslund, E. L. (2018). School librarians as co-teachers of literacy: A study of librarian perceptions and knowledge in the context of the literacy instruction role. School Library Research, 21. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/slr/vol21/SLR_SchoolLibrariansasCoteachers_V21.pdf  

Miller, A. & Reed, K. N. (2018). An examination of instructional intervention on doctoral student perceptions of scholarly communications. Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the Special Libraries Association. Retrieved from https://journals.tdl.org/pal/index.php/pal/article/view/7053  

Reed, K. N. & Albakry, M. A. (2017). School librarians’ views of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Perceived impact on literacy instruction role and career. Tennessee Libraries, 67(1). Retrieved from http://www.tnla.org/?page=TL67_1_ESSA  

Reed, K. N. (2017). Bringing art to the library: An undergraduate art education collaborative with the Curriculum Materials Center. The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, 2(2). Retrieved from http://readingroom.lib.buffalo.edu/readingroom/PDF/vol2-issue2/Bringing-Art-to-the-Library.pdf  

Conference Proceedings

Hebert, H. & Reed, K. N. (2019). Understanding incoming MLS graduate student proficiency and perceptions of information literacy skills. In H. C. Gunderman (ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference: ALISE 2019, (pp. 30-33). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105311  

Reed, K. N. & Tharp, T. J. (2019). Demonstration of Teacher Citizenship Behavior (TCB) by school librarians through work and volunteer service. In J. L. Branch-Mueller (ed.), Proceedings of the 48th Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship and the 23rd International Forum on Research in School Librarianship, (pp. 1-10). Edmonton, Canada: University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/slw/index.php/iasl    

Editor-Reviewed Publications

Reed, K. N. (2015). Taking a second look at emergency procedure plans: Collaborations for safety. College & Research Libraries News, 76(7), 370-372.

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Peer-Reviewed Paper Presentations

Reed, K. N. & Tharp, T. J. (2019, October). Demonstration of Teacher Citizenship Behavior (TCB) by school librarians through work and volunteer service. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL), Dubrovnik, Croatia.  

Hebert, H. & Reed, K. N. (2019, September). Understanding incoming MLS graduate student proficiency and perceptions of information literacy skills. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Knoxville, TN.  

Reed, K. N. & Oslund, E. L. (2017, November). School librarians as co-teachers of literacy: A study of librarian perceptions and knowledge in the context of the literacy instruction role. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Phoenix, AZ.  

Reed, K. N. (2017, January). Super librarians: Cultivating the mindset of school librarians who go above and beyond. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), Atlanta, GA. Attendance was funded through a grant award from the American Psychological Association.  

Reed, K. N. (2014, December). War (What is it good for?): A school librarian examines patriotic themes in children’s war literature. Paper presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Reading Association (TRA), Murfreesboro, TN.  

Peer-Reviewed Poster Presentations

Reed, K. N. & Miller, A. (2019, June). Use of interactive storytelling software to conduct the library orientation. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Library Association (ALA), Washington D.C.

Reed, K. N. (2018, December). Assessment of Visual Arts Projects Produced by Library Student Employees. Poster presented at the Library Assessment Conference 2018 in Houston TX. This conference was sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).  

Reed, K. N. (2016, July). The presentation of war in young adult literature: A lesson on media messages. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Literacy Association (ILA), Boston, MA. Attendance was funded through a grant award from the MTSU College of Graduate Studies.  

Reed, K. N. (2016, May). Collaborations for safety: A team approach to writing emergency procedures plans. Poster presented at the joint meeting of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC), Montreal, Canada.    

Reed, K. N. (2015, December). Lexile text measures: A tool, not a prescription, for the classroom and school library. Poster presentation presented at the meeting of the Tennessee Reading Association (TRA), Murfreesboro, TN.  

Reed, K. N. (2015, March). Emergency procedures for the academic library: Crafting a policy that works. Poster presented at the meeting of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Portland, OR.     Other Peer-Reviewed Presentations  

Reed, K. N. & Carlton, J. M. (2017, November). Technology + reading comprehension strategies = literacy instruction excellence! Spoken presentation given at the annual meeting of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Phoenix, AZ.  

Reed, K. N. & Carlton, J. M. (2015, November). All aboard the STEAM bus! Mobile learning labs expand math and science horizons.  IdeaLab audiovisual presentation given at the meeting of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), Columbus, OH.  

Non-Refereed Presentations  

Reed, K.N. (2018, September). Literacy Life Hacks: Technology Tools Supporting Reading Comprehension. Spoken presentation delivered at the Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) annual conference in Murfreesboro, TN.  

Reed, K. N. (2015, September). Copyright essentials for K-12 librarians and their students. Spoken presentation given at the meeting of the Kentucky Association of School Librarians (KASL), Louisville, KY.  

Reed, K. N. & Sloan, M. E. (2015, February). Copyright guidelines and teaching tools. Spoken presentation given at the meeting of TBR Brightspace Ignite 2015, Murfreesboro, TN.  

Reed, K. N. (2014, June). Collection development for the rural secondary school. Spoken presentation given at the meeting of the Tennessee Association of School Librarians (TASL) “Tool Time” conference, Medina, TN.  

Reed, K. N. (2013, September). Collection development for the rural secondary school. Spoken presentation given at the meeting of Tenn-Share, Nashville, TN.

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Co-Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 16-2262, approved 3/31/20. “Traveling a Thousand Miles: The Role of Education Diplomacy through Study Abroad.” Study utilizes a qualitative design.

Co-Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 18-2288, approved 8/8/2018. “Understanding MLS Student Knowledge and Perceptions of Information Literacy.” Study utilized a mixed methods design (paired samples t-tests in SPSS, plus a qualitative coding of 3 short-answer questions).  

Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 18-1293, approved 7/19/18. “Use of Interactive Storytelling in the Delivery of the Library Orientation.” Study utilized a quantitative design (one-way ANOVA comparing 3 groups).  

Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 17-2248, approved 5/23/17. “Empowering School Librarians to be Literacy Instruction Leaders through Professional Development.” Study utilized a mixed methods design (paired samples t-tests in SPSS, plus a qualitative coding of participant writing samples in NVivo). This research produced my dissertation as well as a peer-reviewed journal article.  

Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 17-2068, approved 10/19/16. “Super Librarians: Understanding the Mindset of School Librarians Who Go Above and Beyond.” Study utilized a qualitative design, and produced a paper presented at a national conference.  

Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 16-2303, approved 7/13/16. “Tennessee School Librarian Perceptions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).” Study utilized a qualitative design, and produced a peer-reviewed journal article.  

Principal Investigator, IRB protocol ID 16-1015, approved 8/17/15. “An Examination of Instructional Intervention on Doctoral Student Perceptions of Scholarly Communications”. Study utilized a quantitative design (utilized descriptive statistics), and produced a peer-reviewed journal article.

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