Faculty and Staff Profiles

Rachel Elizabeth Scott
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Education
  • PhD Historical Musicology - University of Memphis - In progress
  • MM Music - Belmont University - 2010
  • MS Library Science - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2007
  • BM Music - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2005

Work Experience

  • Interim Coordinator, Cataloging, Collection Management, & Library Information Systems - University of Memphis - 2018-
  • Associate Professor / ILS Librarian, University Libraries - University of Memphis - 2018-
  • Assistant Professor / ILS Librarian, University Libraries - University of Memphis - 2014-2018
  • Assistant Professor / Catalog Librarian, University Libraries - University of Memphis - 2012-2014
  • Adjunct Faculty , Library - National-Louis University - 2011-2012
  • Bibliographic & Authorities Assistant, Products - American Theological Library Association - 2011-2012
  • Reference Librarian / Assistant Professor , Lila D. Bunch Library - Belmont University - 2007-2011
  • Reference and Instruction Graduate Assistant, Undergraduate Library - University of Illinois - 2005-2007
Honors/Awards
  • Award of Excellence - Memphis Area Library Council - 2019

Teaching Experience

  • UNHP 1100 - University of Memphis
  • LIBR 300: Library Research for the Social Sciences - National-Louis University
  • LIBR 200: Digital Information Literacy - National-Louis University

Creative Activities

  • Clara Schumann Lecture Recital - September 13, 2019 - University of Memphis -  

Support

  • ACRL Impact Grant: Empowering Parenting Students to Succeed - Association of College & Research Libraries -   - 2018-2019
Service
  • Music Reference Services Quarterly - Co-editor-in-chief - 2017-
  • Various tenure & promotion applications - External Reviewer - 2019-
  • Behaviour & Information Technology - Peer Reviewer - 2019-
  • Evidence Based Library and Information Practice - Evidence Summary Writer - 2016-
  • Facet Publishing - Peer Reviewer - 2018-
  • Tennessee Libraries - Peer Reviewer - 2013-
  • Tennessee Innovative Users Group - Meeting Coordinator - 2016-2017
  • Tennessee Library Association - Co-Chair, Registration Committee - 2014-2016
  • Tennessee Library Association - Member, Membership Committee - 2013-2016
  • University of Memphis - Member, Enterprise System Advisory Committee - 2015-2018
  • University Libraries - Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee - 2018-
  • University Libraries - Chair, ILS Advisory Committee - 2014-
  • University Libraries - Chair, Faculty Group - 2016-2018
  • University Libraries - Facilitator, Writing Group - 2014-2018
  • University Libraries - Secretary, Faculty Group - 2013-2016
  • University Libraries - Member, ClimateQUAL Taskforce - 2013-2014
Consulting
  • LeMoyne Owen College Library - Technical Services - Fall 2019
  • Jackson State Community College Library - Technical Services - Fall 2018
Books Published
  • Barton, Gail Perkins, and Rachel Elizabeth Scott. 2020/forthcoming. “Relocating, Downsizing, and Merging: Inventory Projects to Manage Change in a Digital Environment” in Technical Services: Adapting to the Changing Environment. Ed. Stacey Marien. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth and Kenneth Haggerty. 2019. "Teaching Copyleft as a Critical Approach to 'Information has Value'" in Credit-bearing Information Literacy Courses: Critical Approaches, Ed. Jessica Critten and Angela Pashia. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2018. "Metaliteracy in the Online Music Classroom: Opportunities for Instructor and Librarian Collaboration" in Pedagogy Development for Teaching Online Music, Ed. Carol Johnson and Virginia Lamothe. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2017. "Performance as Conversation: Dialogic Aspects of Music Performance and Study" in Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, edited by Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott and Xan Goodman. Chicago: ACRL.
  • Duffy, William, Rachel Scott, and Jennifer Schnabel. 2016. "Leveraging New Frameworks to Teach Information Appropriation" in Rewired: Research-Writing Partnerships within the Frameworks. Ed. Randall McClure. Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2016. "Open Access Implications for Information Literacy Services." in Open access and the future of scholarly communication. Ed. Kevin L. Smith & Katherine A. Dickson. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2016. "Engaging Communications Students in Critical Literacy." in Critical Literacy for Information Professionals. Ed. Sarah McNicol. Facet.
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2016. "Using Discovery to Facilitate Source Awareness and Evaluation" in Discovery Tool Cookbook: Recipes for Successful Lesson Plans. Ed. Nikki Krysak and Nancy Fawley. Association of College & Research Libraries.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. and Anna B. Neal. 2015. "Digital Sampling: Borrowing from Cultural Institutions to Enhance the Performing Arts Library." in State of the Profession: Performing Arts Librarianship in the 21st Century, Editors: Kenneth Schlesinger, pp.72-90. Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 31, NY: Theatre Library Association.
Books Reviewed
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2019. "Academic library use is positively related to a variety of educational outcomes" (Evidence Summary) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 14(3).
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2019. "Much Library and Information Science Research on Open Access is Available in Open Access" (Evidence Summary) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 14(1), 68-70. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29531.
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2018. “Ongoing and Multifaceted Assessment of Academic Library Professional Development Programs Enhances Their Efficacy.” (Evidence Summary) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 13(2), 115-117. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29413
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2017. “Information Literacy Skills Are Positively Correlated with Writing Grade and Overall Course Performance.” (Evidence Summary) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 12(2), 157-159. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18438/B8TT0G
  • Scott, Rachel. 2016. “Completion of an Online Library Module Improves Engineering Student Performance on Information Literacy Skills Tests.” (Evidence Summary) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 11 (4). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/B8FW5N.
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2015. "MUSAIC." (Online Resource Review) Music Reference Services Quarterly 18(3-4): 178-180. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2015.1096597.
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2014. "Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music: Global Perspectives." (Book Review) Music Reference Services Quarterly 17(3): 204-206. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2014.933397
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2013. "Historical Dictionary of Opera." (Book Review) Music Reference Services Quarterly 16(4): 263-264. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2013.841466
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2013. "Europeana." (Online Resource Review) Music Reference Services Quarterly 16 (2): 118-120. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2013.782221
Journal Articles
  • Scott, Rachel, Shelia Gaines, and Sydnie Roberts. Forthcoming/2020. “An Example of an Academic Library Collaboration to Serve Military-Affiliated Students.” College & Research Libraries News.
  • Scott, Rachel E. Forthcoming/April 2020. “Home-Made from A to Z: New Documents for the Early History of Handel Opera in America.” Fontes Artis Musicae.
  • Scott, Rachel E. and Brannen V. Varner, 2020/forthcoming, "Exploring the Research and Library Needs of Student-Parents," College & Research Libraries, 81(4).
  • Roberts, Joel and Rachel Scott. 2019. “Using Inventory Data to Enhance Music Collections.” Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 14(4), 160-164. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip29620.
  • Scott, Rachel. 2019. “Editorial Note” Music Reference Services Quarterly 22(1-2):1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2019.1603800.
  • Haggerty, Kenneth, and Rachel E. Scott. 2019. “Do, or Do Not, Make Them Think?: A Usability Study of an Academic Library Search Box.” The Journal of Web Librarianship 13(4): 296-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2019.1684223
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2019. “A Selected Comparison of Music Librarians’ and Musicologists’ Self-Archiving Practices.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 19(4): 635-651. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2019.0039
  • Billeaudeaux, Brigitte and Rachel E. Scott. 2019. “Leveraging Existing Frameworks to Support Undergraduate Primary Source Research.” Reference and User Services Quarterly 58(3): 245-55. https://doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.4.7151
  • Harrington, Caitlin, Kenneth Haggerty, and Rachel Scott. 2019. "An Overview of Data Stewardship Week in an Academic Library," College & Research Library News 80(4): 206-208. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.80.4.206.
  • Scott, Rachel E. and Gail Barton. 2018. “Promoting Interlibrary Loan in the Traditional Catalog and Discovery Layer: Two Pilot Projects.”  Library Resources and Technical Services 62(2): 74-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/lrts.62n2.74
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2017. "Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome?: Undergraduate Honors Student Reflections on Information Literacy Threshold Concepts." Communications in Information Literacy 11 (2), 283-301. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2017.11.2.3
  • Harrington, Caitlin and Rachel Scott. 2017. "Working Around the ERM: Automating Accurate Electronic Serials Holdings Data in Bibliographic Records." The Serials Librarian 73(1). DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2017.1316337
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2017. "Part 2. If We Frame It, They Will Respond: Undergraduate Student Responses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." The Reference Librarian58(1): 19-32. DOI:10.1080/02763877.2016.1196471
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2017. "Part 1. If We Frame It, They Will Respond: Undergraduate Student Responses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." The Reference Librarian58(1): 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/02763877.2016.1196470
  • Grissom, Andrew, Steven Knowlton, and Rachel Elizabeth Scott. 2017. "Perpetual Access Information in Serials Holdings Records" Library Resources and Technical Services61(1): 273-278. https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/steven.a.knowlton/files/grissom_et_al_perpetual_access.pdf
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2016. "Accommodating Faculty Requests and Staying True to Your Pedagogical Ideals in the 1-Shot Information Literacy Session" Communications in Information Literacy. 10(2), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2016.10.2.29
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2016. "Music Reference Sources: Analog in a Digital World." The Reference Librarian. 57(4). doi: 10.1080/02763877.2016.1145615
  • Neal, Anna, and Rachel E. Scott. 2015. "Everything in its Place: Digital Maps for Libraries." Tennessee Libraries 65(2). Available http://www.tnla.org/?page=TL65_2_maps
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2014. "HIP Librarians: An Introduction to Historically Informed Performance for Music Librarians." Music Reference Services Quarterly. 17(3): 125-141. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2014.935587
  • Park, Betsy, Jennifer Schnabel, and Rachel E. Scott. 2014. "Generations in Tennessee Libraries." Tennessee Libraries 64(3). Available http://www.tnla.org/?page=TL64_3_generations
  • Scott, Rachel E. 2013."The Edition-Literate Singer: Edition Selection as an Information Literacy Competency." Music Reference Services Quarterly. 16 (3):131-140. DOI:10.1080/10588167.2013.808941
  • Scott, Rachel E. and Jennifer Schnabel.2013. "Plagiarist Patrol: How Librarians Can Collaborate With Online Instructors to Promote the Ethical Use of Information." Tennessee Libraries 63(2). Available http://www.tnla.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=545
Presentations
  • Varner, Brannen and Rachel Scott. “Focus Groups in Libraries: Impacting Hearts and Minds.” Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Tennessee Library Association, April 25, 2019.
  • Panelist, Academic Library Impact: New Research from ACRL Grant Recipients. Panel at the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 11, 2019.
  • Harrington, Caitlin and Rachel Scott. “Open Access Advocacy in Technical Services.” Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Tennessee Library Association, April 26, 2019.
  • Scott, Rachel. “BEAM Them Together: Employing the Background, Exhibit, Argument, and Method Model to Connect Research and Writing.” Presentation at the Music Library Association Annual Conference, February 1, 2018.
  • Scott, Rachel and Joel Collin Roberts. “Do Your Students Know RISM from RILM? Automate a Music Resource Matchmaker” Presentation at the Music Library Association Annual Conference, February 1, 2018.
  • Rodgers, James and Rachel Scott (in absentia). “(Re)Discovering Print: Activating and Customizing ‘Discovery eBooks’ to Promote Physical Collections.” Poster presented at Charleston Conference, November 7, 2017.
  • Scott, Rachel E. and Gail P. Barton. "Making Lemonade: New Interlibrary Loan Opportunities in a Shared Catalog" Presentation at the Innovative User's Group Annual Meeting, April 3-5, 2017.
  • Scott, Rachel and Caitlin Harrington. "Coverage Load Woes and Alternatives: Automating Accurate Electronic Serials Holdings Data in Bibliographic Records" Presentation at the Innovative User's Group Annual Meeting, April 3-5, 2017.
  • Scott, Rachel and Anna Neal. "Inspired Information Literacy: Learning from Museum Educators to Engage Minds in Library Instruction." Poster presented at International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Information Literacy Section Satellite Preconference, August 11, 2016.
  • Scott, Rachel. "Framing Information Literacy: Student Responses to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education." Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Tennessee Library Association, April 7, 2016.
  • Panelist, Reference Roundtable - Imagine New Practices, "Disintermediation for Librarians," Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Tennessee Library Association, April 8, 2016.
  • Grissom, Andrew, Steven Knowlton, and Rachel Scott. "Perpetual Access Information in Serials Holdings Records." Presentation at the Innovative User's Group Annual Meeting, March 17, 2016.
  • Neal, Anna and Rachel Elizabeth Scott. "We're All in This Together: Cooperating, Collaborating, and Borrowing for Better Digital Services." Presentation at the International Association of Music Libraries / International Musicological Society 2015 Congress, June 24, 2015.
Creative/Artistic Works
  • Scott, Rachel Elizabeth. 2010. Performing Sacred and Secular. Master's Thesis & Recital. Belmont University. School of Music.