Formerly a reference and instruction librarian, Brad Matthies is now Access Services Librarian for Irwin Library. He is also the project manager for the Butler Digital Commons and the library's copyright advisor. He is still a subject liaison to the College of Business and Administration and still conducts approximately 25 lectures per year. His research interests related to librarianship include teaching and promoting information literacy, information literacy assessment, bibliographic instruction, faculty-librarian collaboration, copyright, and Web 2.0.
Articles
Using a Wiki to Enhance Library Instruction (with Jonathan Helmke and Paul Slater), Indiana Libraries (2006)
A wiki is a type of social software that allows users to write, share, and...
The Psychologist, the Philosopher, and the Librarian The Information Literacy Version of CRITIC, The Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason (2005)
The information-literacy version of CRITIC expands upon Wayne R. Bartz's development of that acronym. This...
Assessing Freshmen Library Skills and Attitudes Before Program Development: One Library's Experience (with Jonathan Helmke), College & Undergraduate Libraries (2004)
College and university libraries are being called upon to use outcomes assessment to demonstrate their...
The road to faculty-librarian collaboration., Academic Exchange Quarterly (2004)
It is critical that citizens of a democratic society have a solid grounding in information...
Book Chapters
Using the CRITIC acronym to teach information evaluation (with Jonathan Helmke), Library instruction: Restating the need, refocusing the response (2005)
Currently, college students are being presented with a wide array of information. This wealth of...
Conference Presentations
Creating an Institutional Repository "on the Cheap" (with Kenetha Frisby), Librarian Presentations (2009)
Digital Commons is a product from bepress™ for creating an open access institutional repository. Butler...
Internet Reviews
Review of The International Development Economic Associates Website, College & Research Libraries News (2005)
Review of National Institute of Mental Health Website, College & Research Libraries News (2004)
Reports
Digital Commons Annual Report, Digital Collections Reports (2009)
The Digital Commons Annual Report is a document that interested parties may use as a...