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Paths of Discovery: Comparing the Search effectiveness of EBSCO Discovery Service, Summon, Google Scholar, and Conventional Library Resources (with Lynda M. Duke and Suzanne Wilson), College and Research Libraries (2013)

In 2011, researchers at Bucknell University and Illinois Wesleyan University compared the search efficacy of...

 

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The Problem of Data (with Lori Jahnke and Spencer D.C. Keralis), Other Faculty Research and Publications (2012)

Jahnke and Asher explore workflows and methodologies at a variety of academic data curation sites,...

 

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A Divided City in a Common Market: EU Citizenship and Everyday Instrumentalities on the Polish-German Border, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2011)

Based on an ethnographic case study in the border cities of Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and...

 

Search Magic: Discovering How Undergraduates Locate Information, Library and Information Technology Publications (2011)
 

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A Paradise on the Oder? Ethnicity, Europeanization, and the EU Referendum in a Polish-German Border City, City and Society (2005)

As the European Union (EU) expanded eastward in 2004, it explicitly sought to deterritorialize its...

 

Books

Contributions to Books

Differential Citizenship: Negotiating Labor Mobility and State Sovereignty within the EU, The 2004 Enlargement's Influence on the Labor Market in the European Union (2007)
 

In the Laboratory of Europe: Governing the “Europe of Regions” on the Polish/German Frontier, Polska-Niemcy Pogranicze Kulturowe i Etniczne/Poland-Germany: Cultural and Ethnic Border (2004)
 

Presentations

Getting to Know Your Library Users, Council on Library and Information Resources Symposium, “The Future of the Liberal Arts College Library (2011)
 

Understanding User Behavior with Ethnographic Research Methods, Texas Library Association Annual Conference (2011)
 

Using Anthropology to Unite with Users: How Hands-on Experiences can Connect You with Faculty and Students. (with Lynda Duke, Sue Stroyan, Annie Armstrong, David Green, Susan Miller, and Jane Treadwell), Association of College and Research Libraries Conference (2011)
 

Contextualizing the Library: Using Ethnography to Discover and Address User Needs, North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) workshop, “Qualitative Research and You.” (2011)
 

The Market Citizen: Hierarchy and Inequality on a “European Border.”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2010)
 

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The Changing Role of Libraries in Discovery, ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship Conference (2010)
 

Ethnography as an Assessment Tool: The ERIAL Project (with Lynda Duke), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment. (2010)
 

The Changing Role of Libraries in Discovery, ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship Conference (2010)
 

The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project: Reference Service Implications for Illinois Wesleyan University. (with Lynda Duke, Sue Stroyan, Monica Moore, and Suzanne Wilson), Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) 16th Annual Reference Research Forum, American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference (2010)
 

Connecting Libraries and Users: Anthropologists Helping Librarians Meet 21st Century Challenges, Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) Workshop (2010)
 

Anthropologists in the Library: Helping Librarians Support Student Success (with Lynda Duke and David Green), National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) Annual Summit: “Advancing Toward Liberal Arts 3.0.” (2010)
 

Information Literacy and First Year Students: Evaluating Knowledge, Needs, and Instruction. (with Lynda Duke), National Resource Center Annual Conference on the First-Year Experience (2010)
 

Moving the Schengen Curtain: Managing Exclusions at the EU’s Borders, Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2008)
 

Schengen’s Excluded: Third Country Nationals and EU Citizenship Regimes on the Polish-German Border, Europe’s Borderlands: Migration, Trafficking, and Regional Integration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives International Graduate Student Conference (2008)
 

Non-Citizens of a Non-State? Third Country Nationals, EU Citizenship, and the Exclusions of "Schengenland", The New Immigrant Europe: Languages and Borderlands Conference (2008)
 

Transnational Mythmaking in Post-Soviet Europe: Cold War and EU Monuments in a Polish-German “Divided City” (with Jarosław Jańczak), Art and Politics: Case-Studies from Eastern Europe Conference (2006)
 

“Graduated Citizenships” in Postsocialist States: Regulating Population in China, Poland, and East Germany. (with Junjie Chen), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2005)
 

Three Flags, Two Countries, One City: Transnational Citizenship on the Polish-German Frontier, SOYUZ Research Network for Postsocialist Studies Conference (2005)
 

Consuming the Border: Negotiating Europeanization on the Polish-German Frontier., Council for European Studies Biennial International Conference of Europeanists (2004)
 

Marketing Utopia: Selling the EU in Poland, Midwest Slavic Association Annual Conference (2004)
 

Viadrina and the Europe of Regions: A Case Study in Subnational Governance., American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2003)
 

Building Empire: Theorizing the EU’s Eastward Expansion, American Ethnological Society Annual Meeting (2003)
 

Other

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Ethnography as an Assessment Tool: The ERIAL Project (with Lynda Duke), Faculty Research and Publications (2010)
 

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Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish-German Frontier (2008)

Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2006 in the border...