Languages
- Spanish, basic.
Geographical Regions of Interest
- Eastern Asia
- Western Europe
Research Statement
As a lifelong learner and teacher, my journey to academic librarianship charted a path through a variety of roles but one theme has been ever-present: I am passionate about important things and teaching students about them. As my interests have developed over time, so have my training and ability to connect these ideas in new ways.
Over time, my career has begun to move towards an ever-increasing clarity as to what I mean by these themes:
Important things have, and always will be, sources of data which can form seeds for future knowledge. This category began with the galaxies of resources which are available by refined over time to mean rare and special items, as in the case of my much-loved collection at the John Martin Rare Book Room and has now further been articulated into historical government documents. One of the great gifts of librarianship is that this process of increasing expertise need not come at the expense of facility with, and the use of, other data sources.
Learners come in all shapes and sizes and my own path as a learner has involved an ever-growing understanding of how to identify my patrons’ and partners’ needs. From very specific faculty projects to more wide-ranging undergraduate exploration, my ability to facilitate the scholarship of learning has grown exponentially over the years.
The crux of my own emergent work lies in mapping the connections between the important things and the learners. Leveraging the specificity of my expertise and the broad canvas of my teaching skillset, I have begun to research how we as librarians make the connections between searchers and information.
Research/Scholarship Projects
- Marriott Library Celebrate U Survey. PI: Wallace, Shane. 12/2017 - present.
Presentations
- Utah Library Association Annual Conference: From Idea to Research Agenda in 10 Minutes . Presentation, Presented, 05/2018.
- ALA Poster: Look Before You LEAP: Transforming Instruction and Engaging First-Year Students.
Poster,
Presented, 12/2017.
http://www.lib.utah.edu/services/education/2017%20... - Larsen, D., Wallace, S., & Pankl, L. (2017, June). Look before you LEAP: Transforming instruction and engaging first-year students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Library Association, Chicago, IL. Poster, Presented, 06/2017. Poster, Presented, 06/2017.
- ULA Annual Conference: Faculty Visibility and Networking. Contributed Talk, Presented, 05/17/2017.
- ULA Annual Conference: Communicating and Collaborating on Teaching Guidelines.
Poster,
Presented, 05/17/2017.
https://www.lib.utah.edu/services/education/2017%2... - Ziegenfuss, D., Larsen, D., Pankl, L., & Wallace, S. (2017, May). Communicating and collaborating on teaching guidelines. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Utah Library Association, Sandy, UT. Poster, Presented, 05/2017. Poster, Presented, 05/2017.
Publications
- Wallace, William Shane, Catherine Soehner, and Greg Hatch. 2021. Measuring the Impact of a Library-Hosted Showcase Event. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 4(5). DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102428. Published, 06/2021.
- Larsen, Dale, William Shane Wallace, Adriana Parker, and Lis Pankl. 2019. From Cubicles to Community: Reducing Library Anxiety Through Critically Reimagined Social Spaces. New Review of Academic Librarianship, DOI: 10.1080/13614533.2019.1615966. Published, 06/2019.
- Larsen, Dale & Shane Wallace & Lis Pankl (2018). Mapping library values and student learning outcomes: Alignment with university pedagogical goals and practices. Journal of Information Literacy. Vol. 12, 109-117.
Published, 06/04/2018.
https://doi.org/10.11645/12.1.2399