Jennie Burroughs, she/her/hers Senior Program Advisor and Researcher
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- Phone
- 612-625-0822
- ORCID iD
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0000-0002-4146-7956
- Experts
- Experts@UMN
- Full position title(s)
- Senior Program Advisor
- Libraries department
- Libraries Administration
About
Jennie Burroughs is the Senior Program Advisor in the Libraries. She plays several roles for the Libraries:
- Continuous Appointment and Promotion Coordinator for the University Libraries, which includes process support and guidance for librarian-series staff;
- Coordinator for the Libraries' mentoring program
- Grants Coordinator
- In addition, she researches and summarizes emerging issues impacting Libraries programs and services for the University Librarian and Libraries leadership.
She was an Interim Associate University Librarian at University of Minnesota 2019-2022 and the Director for Arts and Humanities at the University of Minnesota 2011-2019. Previously, she was an Associate Professor and the Government Information Librarian at the University of Montana in Missoula 2004-2011.
Her current research focuses on the role of values in library strategy and planning, librarian promotion practices, and librarian mentoring practices.
Education
M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., English, DePaul University
B.A., English & Communications Studies (Film & Media), University of Iowa
Selected presentations and publications
Burroughs, Jennie M. “No Uniform Culture: Patterns of Collaborative Research in the Humanities.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 17.3 (2017): 507–527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.2017.0032. University Digital Conservancy: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/189350
Schell, Justin, Jennie M. Burroughs, Deborah Boudewyns, Cecily Marcus and Scott Spicer. "From Digital Arts and Humanities to DASH." Supporting Digital Humanities for Knowledge Acquisition in Modern Libraries. IGI Global, 2015. 234-253. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8444-7.ch012. University Digital Conservancy: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/172865.
Burroughs, Jennie. “What Users Want: Assessing Government Information Preferences to Drive Information Services.” Government Information Quarterly. 26.1 (2009): 203-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2008.06.003.