Research Guides: Heidi Buchanan: About

Heidi Buchanan, Hunter Library, Research & Instruction Librarian/Professor

M.S.L.S. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
B.A., King University, Major in English; Minor in Behavioral Science; Summa cum Laude

North Carolina Master Trainer

Graduate of Association of College and Research Library’s Immersion Institute for Information Literacy Immersion

Professional Responsibilities

Liaison to the Anthropology & Sociology, English, History, Philosophy & Religion, and Political Science & Public Affairs departments.
Provide general and specialized research assistance to the university community, including information literacy instruction and one-on-one assistance.
Coordinator of Library Instruction—provide leadership and guidance to librarians to support the department’s information literacy efforts.
Develop research guides that walk students through complex processes such as finding primary sources for a certain region and/or time period or finding literary criticism.
Create library research guides to support programs, specific courses, and to teach specific information literacy concepts (such as identifying historical primary sources).
Contribute to library operations such as managing the reference desk schedule and contributing to library Public Relations efforts.

Scholarship

Books

Buchanan, Heidi, and Beth McDonough. 2016. The One-Shot Library Instruction Survival Guide. Chicago: ALA Editions.

Second edition of 2014 book, with additional content to reflect the ACRL Information Literacy Framework. Third edition is in press.

Kornegay, Rebecca, Heidi Buchanan, and Hiddy Morgan. 2009. Magic Search: Getting the Best Results from Your Catalog and Beyond. Chicago: ALA Editions.

Chapters

Buchanan, H. and Beth McDonough. 2015. “Right on time: Best Practice in One-shot Instruction.” In Wood, S., and Ragains, P. (Eds), The New Information Literacy Instruction: Best Practices. NY: Rowman and Littlefield Education.

Martin, Heath, and Heidi Buchanan. 2009-2013. “Literature.” In Magazines for Libraries, edited by Cheryl LaGuardia, 548-560. New Providence, NJ: ProQuest.

Articles

Ellern, Jill, and Heidi Buchanan. “No Strings Attached? Challenges and Successes in Creating a Flexible, Wire-free Active Learning Classroom.” Library Hi-Tech 36 (2): 221-224.

Buchanan, Heidi, et al. 2016. “Reaching Faculty during the Summer: Taking Inspiration from the Blogosphere.” College and Research Libraries News 77 (3): 140-143. http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/3/140

Buchanan, Heidi, Katy Kavanagh Webb, Amy Harris Houk, and Catherine Tingelstad. “Curriculum Mapping in Academic Libraries.” New Review of Academic Librarianship 21 (1): 94-111.

Named by the ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) as a “2015 Top Twenty article.”

Hallyburton, Ann, Heidi Buchanan, and Timothy Carstens. 2011. “Serving the Whole Person: Popular Materials in Academic Libraries.” Collection Building 30 (2):109-112.

Chosen as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2012 (papers are nominated to the Emerald Group publisher by the journal’s editorial team).

Tumlin, Markel, Steven Harris, Heidi Buchanan, Krista Schmidt, and Kay Johnson. 2007. “Collectivism vs. Individualism in a Wiki World: Librarians Respond to Jaron Lanier's Essay ‘Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism.’” Serials Review, 33 (1): 45-53. (Invited Article)

Henderson, Bruce, and Heidi Buchanan. 2007. “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Special Niche for Faculty at Comprehensive Universities?” Research in Higher Education, 48 (5): 523-543.

Kornegay, Becky, and Heidi Buchanan, and Hiddy Morgan. 2005. “Amazing, Magic Searches: Subdivisions Combine the Precision of the Cataloger with the Freewheeling Style of a Googler.” Library Journal, November 1, 44-46.

Carstens, Timothy, and Heidi Buchanan. 2004. “The Future of the Catalog: A User-friendly Academic Search Engine.” Technical Services Quarterly, 22 (2), 37-47.

Selected Presentations

Buchanan, Heidi, and Krista Schmidt. ““Your Future Will be Grim Indeed”: Examining the “Future of Libraries” Rhetoric.” Presentation at American Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) National Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019.

McDonough, Beth, and Heidi Buchanan. 2016. "Demo Makeover: Teaching the Framework One-Shot at a time." Presentation at the Information Literacy Summit, Chicago, IL.

Buchanan, Heidi, and Beth McDonough. 2015. Keynote Address at iTeach2: Enhance and Engage! , a conference held by the Information Literacy Roundtable of the South Carolina Library Association.

Buchanan, Heidi, and Jill Ellern. 2013."From Computer Lab to Active Learning: Lessons Learned." Presentation at the biennial meeting of the North Carolina Library Association, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Buchanan, Heidi, and Amy Harris Houk, Katy Kavanagh, and Catherine Tingelstad. 2013. "Strengthening Instruction through Curriculum Mapping." Presentation at the biennial meeting of the North Carolina Library Association, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

McDonough, Beth and Heidi Buchanan. “50 Minutes? No problem! Successful Strategies for One-shot information literacy instruction.” Presentation at American Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2011 National Conference. Philadelphia, PN, March, 2011.

Grant

Principal Investigator for a $52,536 LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act, a federal grant program) Technology Grant for an active learning classroom. Grant was awarded, July 2012.