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 is actively involved with a campus-wide copyright initiative. 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 institutional repositories.
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...