Faculty & Staff

Amanda Clay Powers

Position

Associate Professor / Interim Co-Coordinator of the Reference Department / Social Media, Extension and Ag & Life Sciences Librarian

Contact Information

Responsibilities

Managing the MSU Libraries Virtual Reference services, I am responsible for supervising and training librarians offering email, chat, mobile and social media reference services. As the chair of the Library 2.0 Committee and social media librarian, I oversee the MSU Libraries' social media presence. In my role as the MSU Libraries' Agriculture and Life Sciences Reference Librarian and Extension Librarian, I provide research consultations, workshops, and develop department and course-specific research guides.

Library Liaison for:

• Plant and Soil Sciences
• Poultry Science

View my Research Guides

Committee Memberships

• National:
  • RSS Liaison, American Library Association (RUSA) Access to Information Committee (2007 - 2009)
  • Chair, ALA RUSA Virtual Reference Discussion Group (2009 - 2011)
• State:
  • Vice-President / President-elect, Mississippi Library Association (2013-2014)
  • Treasurer, Mississippi Library Association (2007 - 2009)
  • Member, Mississippi Library Association Executive Board (2007 - 2009, 2013-2014)
• Library:
  • Chair, MSU Libraries Library 2.0 Committee
  • Co-Chair, MSU Libraries eResources and Emerging Technologies Summit
  • Member, MSU Libraries Electronic Resources Evaluation Committee (EREC)
  • Member, MSU Libraries Library Technology (LT) Committee
  • Member, Measurement and Assessment Committee
  • Member, Coordinators Group
• University:
  • Core Faculty, Center for the History of Agriculture, Science and the Environment in the South (CHASES) (2011-) http://chases.msstate.edu
  • Member, MSU Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for Teaching and Learning (2007-2011)

Curriculum Vita

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Research Interests

My research focuses on new methods of providing and assessing virtual reference services.

Teaching Areas

I teach workshops on Emerging Technologies for Research, Managing Identity in Social Networks, Instant Messaging, Facebook, Wikis, Podcasting, MySpace, Social Networking for K-12 Librarians, Social Networking for Public Libraries, MLA/APA and Word, Biblographic Instruction for ENG 1113 and CO 1003, as well as Library Staff training in Emerging Technologies.

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