Emily Mross

Business Librarian
Associate Librarian

Office Address

205A Penn State Harrisburg Library
Departmental Phone
717-948-6070 (department)
elm43@psu.edu

Academic Support Areas

Business Administration, Marketing, Management, Entrepreneurship

Subject Expertise

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • International Business
  • Information Sciences and Technology
  • Economics
  • Business and Economics
  • Management
  • Marketing

Publications

Cooking up Lifelong Literacy: Supporting Student Success through Extracurricular Workshops, Library Orientation Series, 2024

The Myth of the 'Born Digital:': Addressing Student Computer and Digital Literacy, Journal of New Librarianship, 2024

The library as a campus spiritual space: evidence from student focus groups, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021

Feedback from the Black Box: Using Google Docs for Engagement in Remote Business Information Literacy Instruction, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review, 2021

Does it all add up?: Libraries supporting entrepreneurship through financial literacy, 2021

Bridges to affordability: adopting a university OAER mandate with local implementation, Reference Services Review, 2020

Laughing all the way to the bank: Using sitcoms to teach financial literacy, Ticker, 2019

Building Capital at the Library: Financial Literacy Programming and Partnerships, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research and Practice, 2019

"Why would you do that in the library?": Reshaping academic library spaces to meet students’ spiritual needs, ACRL 2019 Conference Proceedings, 2019

Where the private meets the public: Results of a survey of library professionals’ observed student use of academic library spaces for prayer, College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2019

With our powers combined: Teaming up with the writing center to improve information literacy, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2018

Across the campuses and around the globe: Reaching online learners through high-level embedded librarianship, Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 2018

Other Publications

Blogs

Proceed with Caution: Helping Users Understand Crypto Assets, Programming Librarian, 2025

Being “back”: Reflecting on the return to in-person work, 2021

Surveilling surveillance, 2021

Budget gifting with the library, Programming Librarian Blog, 2021

Helping older adults manage their finances, Programming Librarian Blog, 2021

Money Smart Week: Online and on-the-fly, Programming Librarian Blog, 2021

The lesser-taught programming skills: Evaluation, financial skills and creativity, Programming Librarian Blog, 2021

What we learned when we took our financial literacy programs online, 2020

Running the outreach marathon, 2019

Your bookish guide to the Oscars, 2019

Back to school scaries, 2018

PALS Leadership Academy experience, 2018

Money Can’t Buy Happiness, But it Can Buy Research Assistance, Which is Kind of the Same Thing, 2018

On the spot: Why I value chat reference services, 2018

Depending on the kindness of strangers: My patchwork IRB education, 2017

Embedded librarianship pilot, 2016

Chapters

Fostering Inquiry Through Marketing Research: The Framework in the Business Classroom, Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework, 2024

Preparing the next generation of privacy leaders?: The intersection of business ethics and privacy education, Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries, 2023

Scalable, flexible, and scaffolded: Undergraduate research across a multi-faceted university context, Undergraduate research and the academic librarian, 2023

Franchise frenzy: Business research for marketing a new franchise location, Teaching Business Information Literacy, 2022

Let's compare: Using a recommendation report to teach basic business research skills, Teaching Business Information Literacy, 2022

Smart cookie credit, Rainy Day Ready: Financial Literacy Programs and Tools, 2019

INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH, 2018

SOFT MONEY, 2018

Book/Film/Article Reviews

The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, 2020

96 Great Interview Questions to Ask before You Hire, 2019

Handbook of Human Resource Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industries, 2019

Presidential Power: Documents Decoded, 2018

Principles of Business: Management, 2017

The American Political Party System, 2017

Crime and Punishment in America, 2017

State Rankings 2016, 2017

Information Seeking Behavior and Challenges in Digital Libraries, IGI Global, 2016

Encyclopedia/Dictionary Entries

Center for Competitive Politics, ABC-CLIO, 2018

Soft money, ABC-CLIO, 2018

Magazine/Trade Publications

Partners in financial literacy: Outreach to student entrepreneurs, College and Research Libraries News, 2019

The Necessity of NAICS: Industrial Classification as an Indexing Search Tool, Academic BRASS Published by the Business Reference in Academic Libraries Committee, 2016

Newsletters

The library is open

Business librarians need interactivity too! Organizing the BRASS Business Reference in Academic Libraries Spring Online Symposium, 2019

Tips and tools for digital literacy in your library, 2019

The digital in digital literacy: What are we doing and where are we going?, 2019

Open educational resources in Pennsylvania libraries: Spring workshop preview, 2018

Comment/Debates

A place to study, a place to pray: Supporting student spiritual needs in academic libraries, College and Research Libraries News, 2018

Editorials

Ensuring More Inclusive Hiring Processes, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022