Erica DeFrain

icon-documentPublications and Other Intellectual Contributions

• Riehle, C.F., DeFrain, E., Minter, D., & Simons, J. (2024). Writing instructors’ intentional integration of the information literacy framework. Communications in Information Literacy 18(1).
• DeFrain, E., Sult, L., & Pagowsky, N. (2022). Effectiveness of academic library research guides for building college students’ information literacy skills: A scoping review protocol, November 2022
• DeFrain, E. (forthcoming). Universal Design for Learning as a framework for expanding liaison work and engaging with students. , In R. McMullin & D. Skaggs (Eds.), Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice. ACRL Press.
• DeFrain, E., Thoegersen, J., & Hong, M. (2022). Standing out or blending in: Academic libraries in the crowded informal learning space ecosystem, College & Research Libraries. 83(1)., January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022
• DeFrain, E. & Hong, M. (2020). Interiors, affect, and use: How does an academic library’s learning commons support students’ needs?, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. 15(2), 42-68.
• Head, A. J., DeFrain, E., Fister, B., & MacMillan, M. (2019). Across the great divide: How today's college students engage with news. , First Monday, 24(8).
• Allison, D., DeFrain, E., Hitt, B. D., & Tyler, D. C. (2019). Academic library as learning space and as collection: A learning commons' effects on collections and related resources and services. , The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 45(3), 305-314.
• DeFrain, E., Delserone, L., Lorang, L., Riehle, C.F. , & Anaya, T. (2019). Re-centering teaching and learning: Toward communities of practice at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Libraries, In Mallon, M., Huisman, R., Hays, L., Bradley, C., & Belanger, J. (Eds.) Chicago: ACRL Press.
• Burks, R., Deards, K., & DeFrain, E. (2017). Where Science Intersects Pop Culture: An Informal Science Educational Outreach Program, Journal of Chemical Education
• Tyler, D., Cross, J., & DeFrain, E. (2017). Sociological Abstracts vs. SocINDEX for Graduate Students in Sociology: Comprehensive Enough to Satisfy?, Library Philosophy and Practice
• DeFrain, E., Hathcock, A., Masland, T., Pagowsky, N., Pho, A., Rigby, M., & Robert, K.R. (2016). In defense of scholarship: A rebuttal to The librarian stereotype: How librarians are damaging their image and profession. College & Undergraduate Libraries 23(2).
• Pagowsky, N., & DeFrain, E. (2014). Ice ice baby: Are librarian stereotypes freezing us out of instruction? , In the Library with the Lead Pipe
• Mery, Y., DeFrain, E., Kline, E., & Sult, L. (2014). Evaluating the effectiveness of tools for online database instruction. , Communications in Information Literacy, 8(1). 70-81.