Maggie Murphy

Maggie Murphy is an associate professor and art & design librarian at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her MLIS from Rutgers University and has previously worked in visual resources curation and reference at academic libraries in New York and Georgia. Maggie is interested in critical visual literacy pedagogy and works in close collaboration with humanities researchers and studio artists towards the goal of ethical and critical information access, use, and creation.

There are 34 included publications by Maggie Murphy :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Analogy as Pedagogy: Using What Students Already Know in Library Instruction [Slides] 2018 400 Slides from a presentation given September 29, 2018 at the 2018 Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, GA.

Research shows well-crafted analogies are powerful tools for increasing student interest, motivation, a...
Art of the United States, 1750-2000: Primary Sources [book review] 2020 476 Art of the United States, 1750-2000: Primary Sources is a new anthology that introduces the field of American art from the nation’s inception to the end of the twentieth century, through the words of its artists, critics, patrons, and cultural commen...
Authority Changes: Using the Framework to Teach Evaluation in an Art History Class [Slides] 2018 414 Presentation presented at The Innovative Library Classroom Conference at Radford University, Radford, VA, May 8-9th, 2018.
Capstone courses and projects 2020 1022 Capstone experiences are required of many students in their final year of undergraduate study in colleges and universities across the United States and the world. A senior capstone is meant to be a culminating project representing the synthesis of a ...
Closed Stacks: Image Resources and the Future of Artistic Research Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 439 Decades of research on information behavior of studio art and design students, faculty, and practitioners has emphasized the importance of image resources, in a variety of formats, to their creative processes. Artists have traditionally sought out im...
Community outreach initiatives at UNCG Libraries [slides] 2018 268 Slides from a presentation given in October 2018 at the Entrepreneurial Librarian Conference in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Community outreach initiatives at UNCG Libraries: The ROI of ROI outreach 2019 328 The notion of “community outreach” can be complicated for academic libraries, because both “community” and “outreach” can have multiple meanings. While many academic libraries have a mission or administrative mandate to engage with local and regional...
Creating library space for learning and growth: Developing professional development workshops and sessions for librarians [slides] 2019 172 [Slides from a presentation given October 18, 2019 at the North Carolina Library Association Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.] Librarians need space to grow, and being able to attend professional development sessions on a variety...
Customizable Leaflet Maps [slides] 2019 1620 Slides from a presentation given at the Triangle Digital Humanities Institute at UNC (Chapel Hill) in May 2019. Learn about Leaflet, an easy-to-use open source JavaScript library for creating customizable interactive maps, in this hands-on workshop t...
Editing Wikipedia, Discovering Inquiry: Collaboration in a Modern and Contemporary African Art History Course 2021 66 The authors discuss a scaffolded, semester-long Wikipedia-editing project developed by alibrarian and art history professor for a modern and contemporary African art history seminar.Their goals for the project were to introduce critical information l...
Finding Something New (to Us) [Slides] 2021 222 We know from experience that students typically find reference images of work they admire from social media and artist portfolio platforms, such as Artstation or DeviantArt. Most of these platforms use algorithms that attune themselves to user behavi...
Framework-based Instruction in Art History: From the First-Year Survey to the Senior Seminar [Poster] 2018 750 Poster presented at the ARLIS/NA Mid-Atlantic & Southeast 2018 Joint Chapter Meeting on November 16, 2018 at the Virginia Commonwealth University James Cabell Library.
‘The future is already here’: Intern training for next-generation academic librarians [slides] 2018 144 [Slides from a presentation given October 12, 2018 at the Entrepreneurial Librarians Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.] The Research, Outreach, and Instruction intern training program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro striv...
Imagining Critical Visual Literacy in Higher Education [slides] 2020 262 Slides from a panel presentation given Juley 29, 2020 at the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference. Since its creation in 2018 by the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group, the ACRL Visual Literacy Task Force (VLTF) has actively pursued its charge to re-envision...
The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum (New York, 1950) [book review] 2021 420 “Dear Sir: The undersigned painters reject the monster national exhibition to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art next December, and will not submit work to its jury.” So begins the open letter signed by eighteen American abstract artists at th...
It Takes Three to Enhance: A Pilot Study of Collaboration in the Basic Course 2017 417 While instruction from the communication center and library has supported students and teaching for many years, we seek a more intentional collaboration between these support services and the basic communication course. This article follows a pilot c...
Let's get visual, visual! : new instructional approaches for information literacy [Slides] 2020 593 In this presentation, three members of the ACRL Visual Literacy Task Force, Dana Statton Thompson, Sara Schumacher, and Maggie Murphy, will share teaching ideas and methods for instruction that utilize images or visual information. Attendees will lea...
A New Adventure?: Collaborating with First-Time Writing Instructors on "Teaching Research" [Slides] 2018 309 Slides from a presentation given at the Library Instruction West conference on July 19, 2018 at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO. Assignment-design consultations with librarians can be an easy sell for faculty members who have struggled...
On the same page: collaborative research assignment design with graduate teaching assistants 2019 1306 Purpose: This paper aims to explore how collaborative research assignment design consultations between instruction librarians and new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have the potential to improve the design of research assignments for first-year ...
Orientation, Transition, and Retention Annotated Bibliography 2016 1900 An annotated bibliography on the current professional literature related to student orientation, transition, and retention in higher education.
Outside of the Digital Darkroom: Scaffolded Research, Response, and Creation in the Library for New Media and Design Students 2023 312 Creative inquiry is integral to artmaking. However, this very idea may be a disciplinary threshold concept1 for developing artists that see research and craft as discrete processes undertaken for different purposes rather than reciprocal, iterative, ...
Protest! A History of Social and Political Graphics [book review] 2020 1066 Protest! A History of Social and Political Graphics is the latest book by Liz McQuiston, whose earlier works, including Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties (Phaidon, 1995) and Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st...
Reading Memes: Rhetorical Analysis of Memes as Multimodal Texts 2023 1557 As a mode of visual communication, internet memes carry a lot of meaning in a concisedigital package.1 While memes were originally defined by Richard Dawkins as “units of culturaltransmission,”2 the term internet memes applies to virtual artifacts in...
Reframing the Narrative: Developing Information Literacy Learning Outcomes using Backward Design and Consensus Decision Making [Slides] 2019 754 Slides from presentation given April 11, 2019 at the 2019 ACRL national conference in Cleveland, OH.

Two librarians will lead workshop participants through the process they used to develop new information literacy program learning outcomes a...
Research is a process 2019 152 In many of your courses—including College Writing—you will need to integrate research into essays, presentations, and other projects. Research is critical in academic writing and speaking because it places your work in a larger conversation. Research...
Resources and Techniques for Designing and Supporting DH Projects in Remote Classrooms [slides] 2020 197 Slides from presentation given at Summer 2020 Mini Digital Humanities Collaborative Institute on July 17, 2020.
Revamping First Year Instruction Through Multiple Means [slides] 2019 327 Slides from a presentation given at the NCLA Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem, NC, October 2019.
Scan This to See a Cat: A Pilot for Digital Image Collections Outreach around Campus [poster] 2021 256 Poster presented at the 2021 ARLIS-NA Virtual Conference May 11, 2021. For many art information professionals, COVID-19 has impacted not just physical library operations but also opportunities for instruction and outreach to new and returning art and...
Swim Relay: Using a Medley of Techniques to Teach Information Literacy Concepts and Mechanics [Slides] 2019 396 Slides from a presentation given May 10, 2019 at the LOEX Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

Instruction librarians are like swimmers competing in a medley relay race; we are often experts in different styles that can help our whole team go the di...
Transforming the creative process through research: Library interventions for the creative disciplines [slides] 2021 213 Slides from a presentation given May 6, 2021 at the ACRL-NC and CJCLS Biennial Conference, online.
“Unframing” as a Pedagogical Philosophy 2024 190 What does “unframing the visual” mean, and why was it chosen as the title for an anthology on visual literacy pedagogy inspired by the 2022 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education: Compan...
Virtual Instruction at the Intersection of Creativity & Activism for non-Art Majors [slides] 2021 221 Slides from a presentation given as part of a panel at the 2021 ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference on May 12, 2021. COVID-19 has presented a multitude of challenges for librarians, forcing us to completely rethink what it means to thoughtfully engage with o...
What does it meme? Visual literacy programming in the library through the language of memes [poster] 2019 1654 Poster presented October 18, 2019 at the North Carolina Library Association conference in Winston-Salem, NC. This poster will describe a library outreach and instruction program centered around memes and visual literacy at UNC Greensboro. The program...
What we talk about when we talk about Wikipedia: Exploring scholarly inquiry and genre in contemporary art history through comparison [slides] 2019 310 Slides from a lightning talk presented November 7, 2019 at the ARLIS Southeast Chapter meeting at Strozier Library, Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL.