Carol Wittig

Carol Wittig is the head of research & instruction at Boatwright Library, University of Richmond (Virginia). She has her MLS from Kent State University, a MA in English from University of Akron, and is currently ABD in the English PhD Program at Old Dominion University. Her research focuses on the historical development and intersections of academic and library literacies using a three-level analysis through text mining of LOEX and library journals across the last 50+ years. Prior to earning her MLS, she taught First Year Writing and Composition at the University of Akron and continued to blend her library career with adjunct teaching over the last 25 years. She has also taught information literacy and instruction as an adjunct for the University of Maryland’s ischool at Shady Grove. Carol started her library career as assistant director at Southwest Texas Junior College/Sul Ross State College in Uvalde, Texas. She worked as assistant head of reference at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), library director at Clark State Community College (Springfield, Ohio), and was a military base librarian at the U.S. Air Force Airfield in Chièvres, Belgium, part of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Europe (SHAPE). She has published and presented on a range of writing and literacy topics, including a localized study of first-year students’ use of sources inspired by the Citation Project, critical reading and literacies, and has a forthcoming ACRL book chapter on critical reading using Swales’ Moves and BEAM.