Courtney Walsh
Reference & Instruction Librarian
I am an Adjunct Reference & Instruction Librarian at Brooklyn College. I work days, nights and weekends at the Reference Desk. I also teach classes and workshops for students on using library resources for academic research. I am actively involved in our virtual reference service.
Contact
(718) 951-5628
Academic Interests
academic libraries, virtual reference, e-books, food studies, children’s studies, juvenile literature
Positions
Education
MLS May, 2004 Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Information and Library Science, Brooklyn, NY
BA, Anthropology May, 1991 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
September, 1986 – May, 1988 Colby College, Waterville, ME
PUBLICATIONS & Presentations
Walsh, C. (Forthcoming). Express
Train to Hell. In J. Webb (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of American Myth, Legend, and Folklore. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Brown, R., Evans, B., & Walsh,
C. (Forthcoming). QuestionPoint at the City University of New York: Providing
Cooperative Virtual Reference Services Within and Beyond a Large Academic
Institution. In B. Eden (Ed.), The New
Librarianship. (Vol. 8). Lanham,
MD: Scarecrow Press.
Walsh, C. and Evans, B. (2012, June). The Unique Challenges of the “Non-Rude
Serial Patron” in Chat Reference. Presented at Metropolitan New York
Library Council (METRO) Reference Special Interest Group Meeting. New York, NY.
Walsh, C. (1991, March). An Ethnography of a Rural Food Cooperative. Presented at the 31st Meeting of Northeast Anthropological Association. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
