Courtney Mlinar: Faculty / Expert Librarian Profile

Monday - Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Hours may vary.

ACC Elgin Campus Library

Head Librarian and Associate Professor:

• Manage Library staff, services, and daily operations/activities at the ACC Elgin Campus Library
• Reference and Instruction Services to ACC students, faculty and staff
• ACC LS LibGuides CMS and LibCal Administrator and Facilitator
• ACC Library Leadership Team
• ACC LS Information Literacy Council
• ACC LS Co-Leader, Instructive Reference
• ACC LS Co-Leader, Staff Development Team
• ACC LS Hourly Instruction Librarians Program Lead
• ACC Copyright Officer
• ACC TLED Faculty Center Advisory Group
• ACC TLED Teaching and Learning Academy Design Team
• ACC TLED Department Chair Academy Design Team
• ACC TLED Faculty Evaluation Revision Task Force Lead
• ACC Committee for Faculty Innovation and Development (CFID)

• Master of Library Science, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas
• Master of Music, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
• Bachelor of Music Education, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

American Library Association: ACRL (Association of College Research Libraries) Instruction Section:

-ACRL/IS Academic Librarian Standards and Guidelines Review Task Force 2018-2021

-ACRL/IS Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Revision Implementation Task force 2014-2017

-ACRL/IS Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Review Task force 2013-2014

-Web Site Design Implementation Task force, Feb. 2008- 2010

American Library Association: Health Sciences Interest Group:

- Program Committee,  2011-2012, 2013-2014

Medical Library Association

-2013 Program Chair for 2013 Boston MLA Meeting, Pharmacy and Drug Information Section, 2011-2013

Southern Chapter-Medical Library Association

 -Chair, Bylaws Committee, 2013-2014

Florida Health Sciences Library Association

-Strategic Planning Committee 2010-2013, 2013-2014

Miami Health Sciences Library Consortium 

-Webmaster, 2009-2013 (included web site redesign, 2010

Missouri Library Association

-Past-Chair, M-ACRL Division, 2010

-Chair, M-ACRL Division, 2009 

-Vice-Chair, M-ACRL Division, 2008 

-Blogger: MLA Annual Conference 2007

-MLA Technology Committee

MOBIUS consortium

-SWAN Circulation Committee, 2007-2009

Texas Library Association

-Co-Section Editor (T-CH: Business and Economics) for Texas Reference Sources Online (TRSOnline), 2007- 2020 

Texas Music Library Association

• Web design and educational technology
• Active learning pedagogical techniques
• Universal design for learning
• Meta-literacy and college fluency
• Embedded librarianship
• Health sciences librarianship and research
• Copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licensing

• Author/Editor, “Book Reviews” chapter, Magazines for Libraries 33rd ed., ProQuest, 2024
• Presenter, "Intro to Digital Tools for Research, Teaching, and Scholarship." TLED Spring Development Day, 2023.
• Presenter, “Active Learning for Entry Level Chemistry Student Research,” STEM Librarians South, 2022.
• Author/Editor, “Book Reviews” chapter, Magazines for Libraries 31st ed., ProQuest, 2022
• Presenter, "Using Embedded Library Services to Empower Your Students." TLED Spring Development Day, January 2022.
• Co-Presenter, "A Teaching and Learning Academy For Faculty By Faculty," ITLC Lilly Conference, May 2021 YouTube
• Co-Presenter, "A Teaching and Learning Academy For Faculty By Faculty," Innovations Conference, League for Innovations in Community Colleges, March 2021
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, ACRL Standards for Faculty Status for Academic Librarians, adopted 2021
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, ACRL Standards for the Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure of Academic Librarians adopted 2021
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, ACRL Standards for Academic Librarians Without Faculty Status adopted 2021
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, ACRL Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians adopted 2021
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, ACRL Statement on the Terminal Professional Degree of Academic Librarians adopted 2021
• Presenter, "Universal Design and Accessibility: A Checklist for LibGuides and Online Tutorials," Brick & Click Academic Library Conference, November 2020
• Presenter, "Building a Teaching Strategy Toolkit to Engage Learners, Brick & Click Academic Library Conference, November 2020
• Peer Reviewer - Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, Fall 2020
• Peer Reviewer - Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Summer 2020
• Peer Reviewer - Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, Summer 2020
• Presenter, "Active Learning and Blackboard Collaborate," ACC LS August 2020.
• Presenter, "Library Resources: Introduction to Virtual Services and Resources," ACC TLED Remote Recess July 2020.
• Panel Member, "TLED Panel of Experts," ACC TLED Summer Software Day July 2020.
• Presenter, "Library Resources: Introduction to Virtual Services and Resources," ACC TLED Remote Recess April 2020.
• Module Developer - "Assessing Your Teaching and Designing Improvements Using Course Outcome Data." Course 4, Assessing Students' Learning, Austin Community College Teaching and Learning Academy, Spring 2020.
• Editor/Compiler/Author - Magazines for Libraries, 29th ed., "Books and Book Reviews" chapter, June 2020
• Live Webcast for Texas Chapter - Special Libraries  Conference, "Active and Engaged Learning for Science Information Literacy Sessions in Undergraduate Higher Education," October 5, 2019
• Live Webcast for ACRL Virtual Conference, "Active and Engaged Learning for Science Information Literacy Sessions in Undergraduate Higher Education," April 12, 2019
• Book Author, Embedded and Empowered: A Practical Guide for Librarians, 2019. Landen, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
• Author, Library Professional Development Blog https://libprofdev.wordpress.com/ Sept. 2012-present.
• Design Team - Austin Community College Teaching and Learning Academy, August 2018 -present.
• Project ACC Faculty Institute Pilot: "Active and engaged learning in the sciences: Research as inquiry." Summer and Fall 2017 Cheek - 2 sections, Spring 2018 Cheek and Bocknack - 2 sections, Fall 2019 Cheek - 3 sections.
• ACRL Standards Co-Author, Roles and Strengths of Teaching Librarians. ACRL Standards and Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Revision Task Force, 2014-2017. 
• Co-Author, “Metacognition and Next-Gen Learning Models.” Innovation Abstracts, vol. 39, no. 14, 20 Apr. 2017, https://www.nisod.org/publications/innovation-abstracts/.
• Poster Co-author, "Building a Service Learning-Instruction Apprentice Program: Charting New Paths at Student Success and Early Career Transformations", ACRL Conference, March 2017
• Co-Presenter, "Meta-cognition and NextGen Learning models: Meeting student success and engagement goals through online information literacy", NISOD International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence, May 2016
• "Embedded Librarianship" online 4 week class for Library Juice Academy, May 2016
• MLA CE (6 hours) class for RRLC, April 2016: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• Photographer, "Elgin Campus Library, Austin Community College, Elgin, Texas", Cover art, Choice: Current Reviews for Libraries, Jan 2016. 
• MLA CE (6 hours) class for Midwest / MLA Chapter Meeting CE class, Oct. 2015: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• Poster Co-author: "Revitalizing the ACRL Standards for Proficiencies: evolving expertise for instruction librarians," presented by members of the Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Revision Task Force, ALA Annual Conference, June 2015
• MLA CE (6 hours) class for LILRC, May 2015: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• CE (4 hours) webinar for CRLC April 2015: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• Library Juice Academy 4 week online class March 2015: "Embedded Librarianship"
• Published paper: "Creating an information lteracy badges program in Blackboard: A formative program evaluation." Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning 9 (1-2): 157-169, January 2015
• MLA CE (6 hours) class for CLRC, July 2014: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• MLA CE (6 hours) class for HSLANJ, April 2014: "Embedded and empowered: making an impact with embedded librarianship"
• Paper Presentation: "Creating an information literacy badges program in Blackboard: A formative program evaluation", 16th Distance Library Services Conference, April 2014 with Johanna Tunon, Laura Ramirez,Loy Campbell, Brian Ryckman http://libguides.cmich.edu/dls2014/ataglance/papers
• Presentation: "Academic Dishonesty: Preventing Plagiarism in the Digital Age." Austin Community College Spring Development Day, January 2014, with the ACC LS IL/SS  Team: Terry Barksdale (Team Leader), Ashley Carr, David Wilson
• Poster: “Innovative Mobile Health Literacy Instruction” MLA Conference, May 2013 http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/pdf/mla13_abstracts.pdf
• Presentation: "Information and Reference Services: What is the best model?", FIU Library Services, Apr. 2013 http://www.fhsla.org/annual-meetings/2013/main.htmhttp://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/reference-service-models-vision-2013
• Mobile Apps Panel, FHSLA Conference, April 2013 http://www.fhsla.org/annual-meetings/2013/Program.pdf
• Presentation: "Publishing your Work in a Rapidly Changing Scholarly Communications Environment", College of Pharmacy Faculty Development, Dec. 2012 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/publishing-your-work-in-a-rapidly-changing-scholarly-communications-environment  
• Poster: “There is an "I" in Our Team: iPad” MLA Conference, May 2012 http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2012/pdf/mla12_abstracts.pdf
• Presentation: "Creating Conference Workshop Proposals and Presentations"   , NSU Libraries Staff Development, Apr. 2012 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/creating-conference-proposals
• Presentation: "From blended to embedded librarianship: the journey", Library Juice Academy Embedded Librarianship course, Dec. 2012 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/from-blended-to-embedded-librarianship-the-journey
• Presentation: “Mobile  Apps for Higher Education.” Handheld Librarian VI, Feb. 2012 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/top-mobile-apps
• Presentation: "Learning Outcomes Workshop: Learning Outcomes, Information Literacy, Assessment, Student Success", NSU Libraries Staff Development, Sept. 2011 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/learning-outcomes-workshop-fall-2011
• Presentation: “Creating more Powerful PowerPoint  Presentations.” HPD Research Day, Feb. 2010 http://www.slideshare.net/mlinarklar/creating-more-powerful-powerpoint-presentations
• Website redesign: "Nova Southeastern University Library: Health Professions Division Library", Jan. 2010 (webmaster 2009-2013) http://www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary
• Articles for HPD Beacon: “Sources for Courses”, “Medical Mobile Apps”, “HPD Liaison Librarians” 2009-present
• Article for Missouri Library Association newsletter:“ALA Instruction Section: Web Site Redesign.” MO Info, M-ACRL Division News, Mar. 2009
• Presentation: “Host a Murder Mystery at Your Library as an Informal Information Literacy Assessment.” Missouri Library Association Conference Oct. 2008