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Associate Professor, Instruction Librarian

This is an archive profile. I left Trinity University in July 2022. You can reach me at mobilesworking@gmail.com.

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This is an archive profile. I left Trinity University in July 2022. You can reach me at mobilesworking@gmail.com.

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Library and Information Science, Information Literacy, and Scholarly Communication

video games, print cultures, fans, fandom, and scholarly communication

210.999.8171

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http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-2289

Articles (6)

Article

Pushing Buttons: The Video Game Cartoons of John Holmstrom

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories (2021)

Michael J Hughes

John Holmstrom is a celebrated writer and cartoonist best known for cofounding Punk magazine in 1975. He later chronicled the ...

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Mind the Gap: Teaching Archival Silences in Digital Collections

Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources (2021)

Colleen Hoelscher and Michael J Hughes

This engaging case study describes a library instruction session held virtually for undergraduate students in an upper-level history course on ...

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What Motivates the Authors of Video Game Walkthroughs and FAQs ...

First Monday (2018)

Michael J Hughes

Walkthroughs, also known as FAQs or strategy guides, are player-authored documents that provide step-by-step instructions on how to play and ...

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Fetch Quest: A Select Bibliography of Game Studies Journals

The Serials Librarian (2017)

Michael J Hughes

The academic study of video games has grown substantially since 2001, the year Game Studies published its first articles. Yet ...

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"The Sugar'd Game before Thee": Gamification Revisited

Portal: Libraries and the Academy (2016)

Michael J Hughes and Jeff Lacy

Gamification, the application of game elements to nongame contexts, was recently a subject of great interest in the library literature, ...

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When Data Curation Isn’t: A Redefinition for Liberal Arts ...

Journal of Library Administration (2013)

Megan Toups and Michael J Hughes

Data curation is one way that libraries are extending traditional services to meet the changing needs of patrons. Requirements from ...

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Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Asian Studies Scholars

Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Asian Studies Scholars (2018)

D. Cooper, K. Daniel, J. Alburo, D. Banerjee, et al.

Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services Program investigates how the research support needs of scholars vary by discipline and includes reports ...

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Unpublished Paper

The Research Needs and Practices of Asian Studies Scholars at ...

Library Faculty Research (2017)

Michael J Hughes

This report describes the research needs and practices of nine Asian Studies scholars at Trinity University, a private liberal arts ...

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Article

Comics Plus

The Charleston Advisor (2021)

Michael J Hughes

Comics Plus offers subscribers a digital library of comics, manga, and graphic novels licensed from more than 100 different publishers, ...

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Social Explorer

The Charleston Advisor (2017)

Michael J Hughes

Social Explorer is a mapping and data visualization program that creates custom maps, reports, and presentations from a wide array ...

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Do We Still Need Peer Review? An Argument for Change ...

Portal: Libraries and the Academy (2015)

Michael J Hughes

How long has peer review been in crisis? At what point does crisis outlast emergency to become status quo? Attacks ...

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ReadCube Desktop

The Charleston Advisor (2014)

Michael J Hughes

ReadCube Desktop is a free-to-download file and reference manager that competes with Papers, Mendeley, and Zotero, among others. Many of ...

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[Review of the book Historical dictionary of Scandinavian cinema, by ...

Reference Reviews (2013)

Michael J Hughes

A review of the book Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema compiled by John Sundholm, Isak Thorsen, Lars Gustaf Andersson, Olof ...

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OAPEN-UK

The Charleston Advisor (2013)

Michael J Hughes

OAPEN-UK is the United Kingdom branch of Open Access Publishing in European Networks, a research project that aims to devise ...

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American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide [book review]

Reference Reviews (2013)

Michael Hughes

A review of the book American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide by Allan Holtz.

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PeerJ

Charleston Advisor (2013)

Michael J Hughes

PeerJ is the Open Access (OA) publisher of a biomedical journal, also called PeerJ. In addition to its peer-reviewed flagship, ...

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Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services [book review]

College & Research Libraries (2013)

Michael J Hughes

Book review of Andrew Walsh's Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services.

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Working in the Data Mine (With Apologies to Allen Toussaint)

International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology (2013)

Michael J Hughes

A Review of Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory edited by Trebor Schotz.

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Encyclopedia of Housing [Review]

Library Faculty Research (2012)

Michael J Hughes

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Presentation

Bottom of the Food Chain: Avoiding Predatory Publishers

Library Faculty Research (2019)

Lanette Garza and Michael J Hughes

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Presentation

META-FAQ: What Motivates the Authors of Video Game Walkthroughs?

Library Faculty Research (2019)

Michael J Hughes

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Paper Please: Lessons from Three Decades of Video Game Fanzines

Library Faculty Research (2019)

Michael J Hughes

Before dial-up internet forever changed one-to-many communication, video game fans, like science fiction fans before them, shared their views on ...

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Presentation

Keynote Address at the National Society of Collegiate Scholars Induction ...

Library Faculty Research (2017)

Michael J Hughes

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Big Data, Small School: Growing Digital Curation Services at a ...

Library Faculty Research (2013)

Michael J Hughes and Megan Toups

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Popular Press

Black Bird Soundtrack

VGMO: Video Game Music Online (2019)

Michael J Hughes

Pong wasn’t ten years old before games began borrowing the music of opera. As noted by the scholar Tim Summers, these quotations, which ...

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