Melanie Mills is Assistant Librarian at the University of Western Ontario. She has worked as a Research & Instructional Services Librarian with Western Libraries since 2004, with the exception of an eighteen month Term Appointment as Manager, Graduate Resource Centre in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, a post she held from 2008 through 2010.
Articles
The D.B. Weldon Library's Instruction Portfolio: A Grassroots, Team-Based Approach (with Kim McPhee and Marg Sloan), Western Libraries Staff Presentations (2013)
In an effort to address ever-shifting staffing levels and evolving service demands, staff in the...
Information Workers in the Academy: The Case of Librarians and Archivists at The University of Western Ontario, Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization (2010)
For much of its history, the organizational culture for academic librarians and archivists at The...
It Takes a Village to Raise a Tent: A Case Study in Pitching the Academic Library to Incoming Undergraduate Students (with Marisa Mitchell), Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (2009)
Rather than continuing to pursue formal inclusion in the University of Western Ontario’s O-Week program,...
Presentations
The Moving Targets of Teaching and Technology: Virtual Reference as Information Literacy Intermediary (with Jennifer Robinson) (2013)
Library Sector Leadership: Bridging Theory and Practice (with Charlotte Innerd), Librarian & Archivist Presentations (2011)
Explore the issue of leadership in libraries with one current student and one graduate of...
It's Just Plain Common(s) Sense: Grounding Space Planning in Evidence-Based Research, Librarian & Archivist Presentations (2010)
The Graduate Resource Centre (GRC) at The University of Western Ontario (Western) is a special...
Don't Worry Mom, I'm at the Library: Making Connections with Undergraduate Students (with Jennifer Robinson and Marisa Mitchell), Librarian & Archivist Presentations (2009)
For the past three years Western Libraries has introduced our services, collections and facilities to...
Combining Forces on Campus: The Four C's of Faculty Liaison (with Elizabeth Marshall), Librarian & Archivist Presentations (2006)
Now, more than ever, academic librarians across Ontario are expected to connect, collaborate, create and...
The Moving Targets of Teaching and Technology: Virtual Reference as Information Literacy Intermediary (with Jennifer Robinson), Technology in Education Symposium (TIES) (2013)
Libraries have been moving traditional services to the digital environment for some time now; first,...