Daisy (Domínguez) Singh

(she)

Associate Professor

Reference Librarian

Contact

Cohen Library | City College of New York | 160 Convent St. NY, NY 10031 | 212-650-7271 · ddominguez@ccny.cuny.edu

Academic Interests

audiovisual collection development, Animal Studies

Publications

Engaging Latin American Studies: Connecting Collections to Teaching and Learning, edited by Daisy Domínguez. Tulane University: Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials Papers LXII, 2020.

Domínguez, Daisy. “Beyond Print: Developing Music Collections.” In Latin American Collection Concepts: Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches, edited by Jana Krentz and Gayle Williams, 149-159. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019.

Domínguez, Daisy. “At the Intersection of Animal and Area Studies: Fostering Latin Americanist and Caribbeanist Animal Studies.” Humanimalia: a Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies 8, no. 1 (2016): 66-92. 

Domínguez, Daisy V. “American Indians in Feature Films: Beyond the Big Screen.” Collection Building 33, no. 4 (2014): 121-126.

Domínguez, Daisy V. “Using Music to Teach Latin American (and World) History.” Teaching History (2014): 11-20.

Domínguez, Daisy V. “Building a Library Collection: Fifty Years of Native American Athletes, Sports and Games on Film.” In The Native American Identity in Sports: Creating and Preserving a Culture, edited by Frank A. Salamone, 1-27. Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Domínguez, Daisy V.  “Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’” (book review) H-Madness March 16, 2012.

Dominguez, Daisy V. and Steven Ovadia. “What’s Next for Collection Management and Managers? Twitter: A Collection Development Discovery Tool for and by the People.” Collection Management 3 (2011): 145-153.

Domínguez, Daisy V.  “Moiety.” “Repartimiento.” “Requerimiento.” (three separate entries) Native American History Encyclopedia. New York: Facts on File, 2011.

Domínguez, Daisy V. “Manufacturing Kleptomania: The Social and Scientific Underpinnings of a Pathology.” Madison Historical Review 6 (2009): 1-23.

Domínguez, Daisy. “Indigenous Film and Video in Latin America: Starting Points for Collection Development.” In Women in Latin American Studies: Reshaping the Boundaries, edited by Angela M. Carreño, 81-108. Tulane University: Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials Papers XLIX, 2008.

Education

The City College of New York, CUNY, 2010 MA, History

Long Island University 2005 MLS, Library Science

New York University 1997 BA, Latin American Studies

PRESENTATIONS

Invited speaker at Special Libraries Association of New York “Leaders in LIS” panel with guest speakers Jesús Alonso Regalado, Davis Erin Anderson, Emily Dowie, Miranda Mims, and Peyton Powell. Virtual event. March 3, 2022. 

“SALALMeras Collaborating & Fostering Engaged Academic Learning Communities: From Cartoneras to Digital Primary Sources.” co-presented with Sarah Aponte, Head Librarian of the CUNY Dominican Studies Archives and Library, and Paloma Celis-Carbajal, NYPL Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies at the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). University of Texas. Austin, Texas. June 26-29, 2019. 

“Trash, Literature, and Collectivity: Redefining Research Resources with Cartonera Books,” co-presented with Paloma Celis-Carbajal, NYPL Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies, and Charlotte Whittle, Cardboard House Press at the NYPL Research Libraries Conference, May 7, 2019, New York, NY.

“Acojiendo a comunidades diversas: las bibliotecas de City College en Nueva  York,” co-presented with Sarah Aponte at the XXII Coloquio Internacional de Bibliotecarios “Bibliotecas e Inclusión Social,” November 30, 2015, Guadalajara, Mexico.

“Animal Relations: Fostering Human-Animal Studies in Latin American History Collections,” SALALM Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah May 2014.

“Teach with Music,” SALALM Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah May 2014.

“Hollywood’s Portrayal of American Indians,” American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois June 2013.

“Engaging video indígena in Academic Libraries,” SALALM Conference, Coral Springs, Florida May 2013.

“Native American Athletes and Sports on Film: Intercultural Dialogs,” Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference, Rochester, New York, 2012.

“Minga Virtual: How Librarians can Sow and Harvest on Twitter,” SALALM Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010.

“Must Play Well with Others: How to Work in the Library of the Moment,” with co-panelists Beth Evans and Steve Ovadia, Library Association of the City University of New York Dialogues: a Town Hall Meeting, New York, NY 2007.

“Indigenous Film and Video in Latin America: Starting Points for Collection Development,” SALALM Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2004.