Ellysa Stern Cahoy
Office Address
Academic Support Areas
Research Interests
Subject Expertise
- Adult Education and Workforce Education
- Children's Literature and Literacy Education
- Counselor Education
- Education
- Education: Organization, Development, and Change / Training and Development
- Education: Policy and Leadership
- Educational Psychology/School Psychology
- Higher Education
- International and Comparative Education
- Learning Design and Technology
- Science and Math (STEM) Education
- Social Studies and World Languages Education
- Special Education
Library Guides
Publications
Scale and Scope: Building SOTL Capacity through Collaborative Library Partnerships, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Evidence Synthesis: Coming Soon to a Library near You?, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Leave the browser behind: Placing discovery within the user’s workflow, LIBER Quarterly, 2018
Researcher as Bricoleur: Contextualizing humanists’ digital workflows, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2018
Developing Research Tools for Voices from the Field, DH+LIB, 2016
Affective, personal information management: Critical information literacy components, Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
Personal Library Curation: An ethnographic study of scholars' information practices, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
Moving forward: A discussion on the revision of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
The Quarterly Interview: Ellysa Stern Cahoy, LOEX Quarterly, 2013
Moving forward: A discussion on the revision of the ACRL information literacy standards for higher education, Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
Affective learning and personal information management: Essential components of information literacy, Communications in Information Literacy, 2013
Embedding affective learning outcomes in library instruction, Communications in Information Literacy, 2012
Valuing information literacy: Affective learning and the ACRL standards, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Maximizing Local and National Assessment for Evidence-Based Librarianship, Research & User Services Quarterly, 2008
Studying the Independent School Library, School Library Media Research, 2008
Faculty perspectives on e-learners' library research needs, Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, 2007
Library use in the E-learning environment: A profile of Penn State's World Campus Faculty and Students, Journal of Library Administration, 2006
If we teach, do they learn? The impact of instruction on online catalog search strategies, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
Faculty Perspectives on e-Learners' Library Research Needs, The Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2006
A luau in the library?: A new model of library orientation, College and Undergraduate Libraries, 2004
Put Some Feeling In It! Integrating Affective Competencies into K-20 Information Literacy Standards, Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 2004
Meeting the needs of remote library users, Library Management, 2003
Will Your Students Be Ready for College? Connecting K-12 and College Standards for Information Literacy, Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 2002
Performances
“What’s in Your Personal Library”, University Park, PA, 11/15/2013
Poems from Life, State College, PA
Review of Lynd Ward Prize winner, "Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq", University, Park, PA
Thomas Benson Political Protest Poster Collection, University Park, Pennsylvania
Episode 104: King of King Court and Pennsylvania Center for the Book, State College, PA
Podcast: From Concept to Creation: Uncovering the Making of Scholarly and Creative Accomplishments,
Other Publications
Blogs
Making room for the 'Deep Work' of research, 2017
Strategic Plan in Action: Forming an instructional community, 2017
The age-old question: How many peer reviewed articles do I need to publish in order to make tenure?, 2016
How to work with co-authors… And when to walk away from a project, 2016
Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research, 2015
Chapters
Curation in Academic Libraries, ALA Library Technology Reports, 2014
Perspectives on personal digital archiving, 2014
Assessment of teaching, learning and literacies, Assessing liaison librarians: documenting impact for positive change, 2014
Lady Gaga (1986-), 2013
Personal Archiving: Scholarly Initiatives, Personal Archiving: Preserving Our Digital Heritage, 2013
WHO ARE OUR USERS? SCANNING THE ENVIRONMENT TO DETECT TRENDS, 2010
Who Are Our Users? Scanning the Environment to Detect Trends, Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship, 2010
K–16 OUTREACH: CREATING CONNECTIONS THAT MATTER, 2008
K-16 Outreach: Creating Connections That Matter, Academic Library Outreach: Beyond the Campus Walls, 2008
Engaging First-Year Students: Developing Library-Related Cocurricular Activities That Impact and Empower Students, The Role of the Library in the First College Year, 2007
Defining and Developing Your Speech Topic, Public Speaking: Strategies for Success, 2004
Book/Film/Article Reviews
Fox+Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride and Other Stories by Sergio Ruzzier, 2019
Circle by Mac Barnett, Illustrated by Jon Klassen, 2019
Magazine/Trade Publications
Immersion Therapy: Penn State Libraries' Open House, State College Magazine, 2009
Editorials
25 Years of portal: Libraries and the Academy, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Embedding an Ethic of Care within the Editorial Process, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Feature Articles: A Lens on Our Profession, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Reflecting: Two Decades of portal Editorials and Accomplishments, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Moving Forward—with Gratitude, Empathy, and Intention, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Exploring Innovative Strategies and Services in a Pandemic Era, Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Maximizing local and National assessment for evidence-based librarianship, Reference and User Services Quarterly, 2009
Others
portal: Libraries and the Academy 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Best Article, portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
A Baker's Dozen 2023: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2023, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2021
This Is Not Enough. We Can Do Better, portal: Libraries & the Academy, 2020
A Baker's Dozen 2017: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2016, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2018
Book Wars #2: Tortured Youth and Misanthropy, The Daily Collegian, 2018
thing 23: Assessing Dispositions, 2017
Global Perspectives on Information Literacy: Fostering a Dialogue for International Understanding, Association of College & Research Libraries, 2017
A Baker's Dozen 2016: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2016, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2017
A Baker's Dozen 2015: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2015, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2016
A Baker's Dozen 2015: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2014, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2015
A Baker's Dozen 2013: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2010, The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014
A Baker's Dozen 2012: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2010, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2013
A Baker's Dozen 2011: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2010, The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, The Pennsylvania State University, 2012
A Baker's Dozen 2010: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2009, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2010
A Baker's Dozen 2009: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2008, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2009
A Baker's Dozen 2008: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2007, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2008
A Baker's Dozen 2007: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2006, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2007
A Baker's Dozen 2006: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2005, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2006
A Baker's Dozen 2005: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy from 2004, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2005