Scott Spicer, he/him/his Media Outreach Librarian

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 612-626-0629

Full position title(s): Media Outreach Librarian
Libraries department: Engagement, Outreach, and Community Partnerships

About

Welcome! My name is Scott Spicer, and I serve as Media Outreach Librarian for the Libraries. In this role, I serve as head of Media Services, a program dedicated to fostering the development of media literacy skill-sets and promoting deeper subject knowledge and meaningful, authentic learning experiences through course integration of student-created media projects. In this role, I also explore and research emerging media use cases in the academe, such as multimodal scholarship for researchers and the future of AI-generated media. This scholarship includes national leadership, presentations, and publications, notably authoring the book, "Student-Created Media: Designing Research, Learning, and Skill-Building Experiences" (ALA Editions, 2022).

Select Media Services support areas include:

Outreach consultation to instructors in developing, assessing, and coordinating support for course-integrated, student-created media assignments (e.g., videos, podcasts, photography, websites, newsletters, etc.).

Coordination of direct student media creation support in our library spaces.

Guidance on copyright/fair use and media (in collaboration with Copyright Librarian).

Commercial media resource support (in collaboration with Course Materials).

Guidance on multimodal scholarship (e.g., video abstract creation).

Select research and scholarship interests include:

Innovative uses of student-created media to support teaching and learning.

The potential and ethical considerations of AI-Generated Media.

Innovative uses of commercial instructional media resources to support teaching and learning.

Emerging models for media outreach, media literacy support, and library-based media centers.

Multimodal scholarship (i.e., video abstracts in scholarly journals).

The potential of the student-created media projects to support environmental awareness.

Fostering neuroinclusive library services and workplaces.

Education

M.A. Curriculum and Instruction - Learning Technologies ("LT Media Lab"), College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

M.L.I.S. Library and Information Science, Dominican University (River Forest, IL)

B.A. Child Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)