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Rafia Mirza

Humanities Librarian.

librarianrafia.github.io/about/ | My Twitter

Currently

Rafia Mirza is currently a Digital Scholarship Librarian at SMU. She helps provide research and instructional support for students and faculty who are interested in digital scholarship projects and led the Digital Humanities Research Institute at SMU. She did graduate coursework in American studies at the University of Minnesota and received her MSI from the University of Michigan.

Research interests

Her research focuses on digital humanities, library pedagogy, project planning and infrastructure in libraries as well as race, gender and labor in librarianship.

Education

2023- Present Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

  • MS (Master of Science in Data Science). Online program.
  • Expected completion in 2026.

2008 University of Michigan, School of Information (Ann Arbor, MI)

  • MSI (Master of Science in Information).
    • Specialization in Library and Information Services (LIS).
    • University Library Associate: Graduate Library Public Services Associate.
      • This appointment came with a scholarship for the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

2006 University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN.)

  • PhD coursework ABD (All But Dissertation) status in the American Studies Department.
    • Passed: written prelims 9/8/2005, orals 10/6/2005.
    • Field of Concentration: Representations of Orientalism in American Mass Media, 1970s-Present.
    • MacArthur Scholar (2002-2005).

1999 State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, NY.

  • Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and American Studies.
  • Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
    • Graduated Magna Cum Laude and with Departmental Honors (in all three majors).
    • Dean's List.
    • Chosen as the Outstanding Graduate in the American Studies Department, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, 1999.
    • Received a Dean’s medal, Chosen as the “Outstanding Graduate” in the American Studies Department, 1999.
    • Received ‘Disparate Major’ collegiate medal to recognize intellectual breadth in a course of study.

Honor Societies

  • Phi Beta Kappa (Inducted 2000, January)
  • Phi Eta Sigma (Inducted 1996, January)
  • Golden Key (Inducted 1999, January)

Affiliations & Service

Spring 2021 Reviewer, NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Advancement Grants.

2018 Digital Library Federation (DLF)

  • Member of Forum Program Committee & Inclusivity Subcommittee.

2016-2017 Digital Frontiers (DF)

  • Member of program committee for Digital Frontiers.

2016-2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC)

  • Member of Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Affinity Group.
  • Member of Digital Humanities Affinity Group

2014-2018 Texas Digital Humanities Consortium (TXDHC)

  • Member of the Steering committee for TXDHC (2014-2018)
  • Co-Chair (Spring 2016-2017)
  • On Web Committee (2015-2017)
    • Texas Digital Humanities Conference, April 9–11, 2015.
      • Member, Program and Planning Committee, July 2014–April 2015.

2007-2014 American Library Association (ALA) member

  • ALA Emerging Leader, 2010.

2007-2012 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Division member

  • ACRL University Libraries Section member (2009 -2012)
  • ACRL Instruction Section member (2009 -2012)
  • ACRL/ULS Committee on the Future of University Libraries member (2011-2012)
  • ACRL member of the week October 24th, 2011.

2011 Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX)

  • Volunteer service for LOEX conference.

2007-2008 Michigan Library Association

  • Student Chapter at University of Michigan, American Library Association.
  • Events Coordinator (2007-2008)

2000-2002 Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

  • Volunteer Docent,
  • Facilitated visitors’ experiences in the Hands on History Room, ensuring safety and being available to answer guests’ questions.

Continuing Education

2023 Equity-Centered Instruction, Library Journal

  • Participant in Spring 2023 cohort of Equity-Centered Instruction: Strategies for the Library or Classroom Online Workshop and Guest Speaker Program.

2022 IDEA AI 2022 cohort

  • Participant in 2022 cohort of IDEA (Innovation, Disruption, Enquiry, Access) Institute on Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Feb 28th - April 15, 2022 Prioritizing Privacy Spring 2022 cohort

  • Participant in Spring 2022 cohort of Prioritizing Privacy, a online professional development course focused on student privacy and academic library participation in learning analytics projects.

June 11-20, 2018 DHRI (Digital Humanities Research Institute)

  • Participant in 2018 cohort of DHRI a ten-day residential workshop at held at The Graduate Center, CUNY to become become local Community Leader.

October 2015 Library Juice Academy workshop

May 2014–May 2015 Trailblazers: Pathways to Successful Supervision Staff Development Supervisory Program

  • Attended series of workshops focused on supervisory skills offered by University of Texas at Arlington Human Resources.

2001 Cutting the Red Tape: Finding and Using E-Government Tools and Resources

  • Completed ALA e-course

2009 University of Maryland University College

  • Center for Intellectual Property Copyright Leadership and Management Certificate

Publications

A list is also available through Google Scholar.

Articles

2020 Seale, M., & Mirza, R. (2020). The Coin of Love and Virtue: Academic Libraries and Value in a Global Pandemic. The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 6, 6 (December), 1-30. https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/article/view/34457

2019 Seale, M., & Mirza, R. (2019). Empty Presence: Library Labor, Prestige, and the MLS. Library Trends 68(2), 252-268. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/746747

2019 Mirza, R. & Seale, M. (2019). Speech and Silence: Race, Neoliberalism, and Intellectual Freedom. Journal of Radical Librarianship. 5.

2017 Currier, B. D., Mirza, R., & Downing, J. (2017). They think all of this is new: Leveraging librarians’ project management skills for the digital humanities. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 1-20. doi:10.1080/10691316.2017.1347541

2018 Research Planning and Review Committee, A. (2018). 2018 top trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues affecting academic libraries in higher education. College & Research Libraries News, 79(6), 286. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.6.286

Published Panels

2019 Walker, S, Beilin, I. & Mirza, R. (2019). Research Agenda Conversations, ACRL Instruction Section Research & Scholarship website.

Book Chapters

2023 Mirza, R., Nicholson, K., & Seale, M. (2023). Acting “As If”: Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment, and Labor. In Y. Mery & A. Sanchez (Eds.), The Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium: Reflections, Revisions, and New Works.(pp.111-126) ACRL.

2023 Keralis, S., Mirza, R. & Seale, M. (2023).Librarians' Illegible Labor: Toward a Documentary Practice of Digital Humanities. In Klein, L.F., & Gold, M.K. (eds.), Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023. (pp. 305-323) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2017 Mirza, R. & Seale, M. (2017). Who Killed the World? White Masculinity and the Technocratic Library of the Future. In Schlesselman-Tarango, G. (ed.), Topographies of Whiteness: Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science (pp. 175-201) (Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS). Sacramento: Library Juice Press.

2015 Ossom Williamson, P. & Mirza, R. (2015). Does Google Scholar help or hurt institutional repositories? In C. Smallwood (Ed.), The complete guide to using Google in libraries: instruction, administration, and staff productivity (pp. 211-222). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefiend.

2011 Mirza, R. & Seale M. (2011) Watchers, Punks and Dashing Heroes: Representations of Male Librarians in Generation X Mass Culture.In M. Wallace, R. Tolley-Stokes, and E. S. Estep (eds.), The Generation X Librarian: Essays on Leadership, Technology, Pop Culture, Social Responsibility and Professional Identity (pp.135-146). Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co.

Workbooks

Currier, B. D., Mirza, R., & Ossom Williamson, P. (2016). Memorandum of Understanding Workbook, Version 1.0, Memorandum of Understanding Collection. Arlington, TX: ResearchCommons. https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/handle/10106/25646 DOI:http://doi.org/10.32855/utalibraries.2016.01

Conference Proceedings

2013 Bailey, J., & Mirza, R. (2013). LibGuides, videos, and screencasting: Technologies to enhance and promote digital wisdom in information literacy instruction. In B.Sietz (Ed.), Fort Worth, Texas, May 5-7, 2011 (pp. 71-74). Ypsilanti, MI: LOEX Press.

Instruction

2023 Software Carpentry Instructor

  • Completed Instructor Certification in Summer 2023

2023 Resources and Information Services in Professions and Disciplines - Data Services in Libraries INFO 220

  • San José State University School of Information (SJSU iSchool, Spring 2023 & Summer 2023)
  • Instructors: Mirza R., Ossom-Williamson, P.

Presentations & Workshops

National presentations & workshops

2019 Expanding Communities of Practice Pedagogy Showcase

  • Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) , PA. (2019, July 24-26)
  • Speakers: Lisa Marie Rhody (Chair), Westerling K., Chapman R., Davis A., Fallon D., Gay A., Johnson D., Mirza R., Noonan S., Peaker A., Torres-Medina R., Karlin J., Smyth P., Zweibel S.

2018 Towards of a Praxis of Library Documentation

  • Digital Library Federation Forum, NV. (2018, October 15-17)
  • Speakers: Mirza, R., Currier, B.

2018 Valuing Labor When You’re “The Man” (kind of): Q&A

  • Digital Library Federation Forum, NV. (2018, October 15-17)
  • Speakers: Tillman, R., Rodriguez, S., Mirza, R. Arnold, H.

2018 Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge with Cross-disciplinary Collaboration: Applying User Experience Approaches to Digital Humanities

  • Digital Frontiers, KS. (2018, October 5)
  • Presenters: Terrill, M., McMichael, J., Mirza, R.

2017 Dudes Code, Ladies Coordinate: Gendered Labor in Digital Scholarship

2017 Modifying a Project Memorandum of Understanding for Reuse

2016 Memorandum of Understanding Workshop: Creating a Process for Successful Digital Collaboration.

2015 Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projects

  • Digital Frontiers, Denton, TX. (2015, September 18)
  • Presenters:Downing, J., Johnson, L., Reece, D. & Mirza., R
  • Click here for Abstract

2014 Developing Library Services for Digital Humanities & E-Science Support Using Qualitative Research

2013 Plugged into User Behavior: Low-Budget, High-Impact Usability Testing of Library Subject Guides --Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference. (2013, April).

2012 Digital Learning: Teaching Information Literacy through Online Research Guides

  • Annual Innovations in Online Learning Conference, San Antonio, TX. (2012, May).
  • Presentation with Trkay, G., Mirza, R., & Bailey, J.
  • Click here for the Abstract.

2011 LibGuides, Videos, and Screencasting: Technologies to Enhance and Promote Digital Wisdom in Information Literacy Instruction

2011 If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words, Imagine What a Video Can Do: Making Promotional, Advocacy, and Instructional Videos on a Shoestring

  • Association of College and Research Libraries Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA,(2011, March).
  • Presenters (Day long Pre-Conference Workshop): Abrahamson, M., Bailey, J., Frierson,F., & Mirza, R.
  • Click here for Abstract

2010 Supercharged, Integrated, and On Demand

2010 Rising (and Raising) Expectations: Expanding the Academic Cyberinfrastructure at Academic Libraries

2010 Project J: How Web 2.0 Should ALA Go?

2110 LibrarySTEW:Fortifying Staff and Services

2009Techno Scholar: The Librarian as Digital Professional

  • LIRT Summit (2009)
  • Poster Presenter: Mirza, R.

2005 The Terror Within: Militia Terrorism in Arlington Road

  • Mid-America American Studies Association (2005, April)
  • Paper Presenter: Mirza, R.

2004 America Under Siege: The Terrors of Race, Religion and Culture in Hollywood’s The Siege

  • National Popular Culture Association (2004, April).
  • Paper Presentation: Mirza, R. .

2003 America Under Siege: The Terrors of Race, Religion and Culture in Hollywood’s The Siege

  • Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference (2003,October).
  • Paper Presentation: Mirza, R.

2000 Feminism and Islam

  • American Men’s Studies Association 8th Annual Conference (2000, April).
  • Presenter: Mirza, R.

Virtual presentations & workshops

2021 Mirza, R., & Seale, M., et al. (2021). Academic Libraries and the Irrational – A Discussion with CJAL Special Issue Authors and Editors (CJAL). May 25, 2021. Online.

2017 Mirza, R., & Ossom-Williamson, P. & Currier, B.D., (2017). The MOU — Your Blueprint for Managing Collaborative Projects. [Webinar]. The Library Leadership & Management Association (LLAMA). Oct 18, 2017. Online.

2017 Mirza, R. & Currier, B.D. (2017). Memorandum of Understanding: Process for Successful Digital Collaboration. [Lightning Talk]. Annual Meeting, WiLs'. February 16, 2017. Online.

2016 Mirza, R., & Ossom-Williamson, P. & Currier, B.D., (2016). Memorandum of Understanding Workshop: Process for Successful Digital Collaboration. [Webinar]. The Digital Curation Interest Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries. May 23, 2016. Online.

Regional presentations & workshops

2022 Develop Your Own Digital Humanities Research Institute

  • Texas Library Association (TLA) 2022 Annual Conference.
  • Presenters: Bliss, J.R., Godat, E., McMichael, J., Mirza, R. (2021, April 27)

2022 Storytelling with Data: A Hands-on Workshop for Beginners

  • Part of TWU Libraries Developing Digital Competencies Workshop Series funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission.
  • Invited Speaker for second workshop in series: Mirza, R. (2022, April 12)

2019 Collaborative Digital Project Management in Libraries

  • Texas Library Association (TLA) 2019 Annual Conference.
  • Presenters: Holmes, R., Mirza, R., Williamson, P.O. (2019, April 16)

2017 How to Bring Digital Humanities in the Classroom

2017 After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5

2017 Introduction to MOU Workbook

  • Wils' February Membership Meeting
  • Invited Speakers for lightening talk: Currier, B., Mirza, R. (2017, February 16)

2015 Encouraging Digital Scholarship in Graduate Education

2013 Libraries as Digital Humanities Partners on Campus

2014 Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

2013 What Are the Digital Humanities and What Do They Want from Libraries?

2013 ALTMETRICS: What is it and how is it relevant to librarians?

2012 Re/searching on the Web

2012 Digital Age Copyright & Your Rights as an Author

2011 Social Networking at UTA Library

  • Phoenix Staff Development Day, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX (2011, May)
  • Presenters: Bailey, J. & Mirza, R.
  • Click here for Abstract.

Professional Experience

SMU

2023-Current Librarian IV (June 2023- Current)

2019-2023 Librarian III (July 2019- May 2023)

2017-2019 Librarian II (August 2017- July 2019)

2022-Current Title: Digital Scholarship Librarian.

  • Workshops on Digital Scholarship topics: Introduction to Data , Text and Data mining, Project Planning. Collaborate on workshops with OIT.

2017-2021 Title: Humanities Research Librarian.

  • Liaison, Instruction and Collection responsibilities: History (August 2017-Dec. 2021), Classical Studies (August 2017-Dec. 2021), Philosophy (August 2017-Dec. 2021), Religious Studies (August 2017-April 2020), World Languages and Literatures (August 2017-Dec. 2021), International Film Minor (January 2018-Dec. 2021), Honors Program (August 2017-January 2018), Digital Humanities (Jan. 2020-Dec. 2021)

2018 Participant in initial cohort (2018) of NEH grant funded Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI)at CUNY to train in becoming local Community Leader

Committees at SMU (2017-Present)

  • Chaired Data Literacy Working Group (Summer 2023 - Present)
  • Chaired Data Policy Working Group (Spring 2023)
  • Serves on Online Learning Committee (Jan. 2022- Present)
  • Led committee on Workshops (Spring 2021-Fall 2021)
  • Leads committee on the Digital Humanities Research Institute (2018-2022, 2024)
  • Served on library committee on Research and Scholarly Communication (2017-2020)
  • Served on Search Committees (2019, 2021, 2023)

University of Texas at Arlington

2008-2017 Librarian

  • Associate Librarian (October 2012- July 2017)
  • Title: Digital Humanities Librarian
  • Assistant Librarian (August 2008- September 2012)
    • Title: Reference/Instruction Librarian

October 2013- August 2014

  • Instrumental in the formation of the newly created Scholarly Communication Department.

  • Conceived of and co-led Scholarly Communication summer Workshops series

    • I was heavily involved with the planning and execution of the following workshops: Framing Scholarly Communication, Open Access, ResearchCommons(Institutional Repository), Copyright, Digital Humanities.
    • August 2014, the Scholarly Communications Department was dissolved, and I was placed in the Outreach & Scholarship department.
      • Functioned as the interim resource on Scholarly Communication until the Director of Scholarly Communications was hired in May 2015 and the Scholarly Communication Division was reformed.

  • Initiated UT Arlington joining COAPI as affiliate member in 2014

  • Offered workshops on Scholarly Communication topics on request for faculty and students: Scholarly Communication, Copyright, Digital Humanities

  • For internal training , conceived of and co-led Scholarly Communication summer Workshops series for library staff on the following topics: Framing Scholarly Communication, Open Access, ResearchCommons, Copyright, Digital Humanities, Emerging Technologies/ Digital Pedagogy.

  • Collaborated with Office of Graduate Studies at UT Arlington to offer series of workshop for graduate students:

    • Creating an Online Academic Presence, Creating an Online Exhibit (using Omeka.net), Creating an website using WordPress.

Assistant Librarian, University of Texas at Arlington

August 2008- September 2012 Reference and Instruction Liaison

  • Served as Librarian for English, History and Communication; responsible for liaising with faculty, departmental outreach and student instruction
    • Subject Specialist to Departments in College of Liberal Arts as needed for Disability Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Liaison (October 2012- September 2012)
    • Worked with Women's Studies Department to create exhibits commemorating Women’s History Month in March of 2014, 2015.
  • Compose and keep current all subject, course, and topic guides in my disciplines; collaborate with other librarians on cross-disciplinary guides.
  • Develop teaching materials such as handouts, course outlines, instructional videos, and other instructional aids in both print and digital formats.
  • Collaborate with faculty to develop new instruction tailored to specific needs (e.g., “Acknowledging Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism”).
  • Created teaching materials such as: curricula, course outlines, handouts, instructional videos, and other instructional aids in both print and digital formats
  • Created Chicago citations style handout for History Students.
  • Taught workshops on library resources (catalogues and databases) and bibliographic management tools.
  • Provide information literacy instruction (in classes or one-on-one) to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in assigned departments, collaborating with faculty to enhance the learning experience of students.
  • Instruct one-off information literacy workshops (not associated with a class) for both internal staff members and the greater campus. Participate in emerging technologies instruction.
  • Taught workshops on library resources (catalogues and databases) and bibliographic management tools.
  • Instruct one-off information literacy workshops (not associated with a class) for both internal staff members and the greater campus. Participate in emerging technologies instruction:
    • Taught workshops on emerging technologies internally (Library STEW) and externally (TechnoScholar). Created guide for Techno Scholar workshops.
    • Created Copyright guide for in class instruction.
  • Worked closely with Information Resources librarians to develop and assess the collection. Worked closely with IR counterpart to add video games (which we did not previously collect) and expand the library’s collection of Graphic Novels to the library collection in order to support research being done by students in the English Department.
  • Created guides to support this research: Graphic Novels Subject Guide & Video Games Subject Guide.

Grant support

2013 Muslim Journeys grant.

  • Co-applicant with Reece, D. the  UT Arlington Libraries application for the Muslim Journeys grant.

    • We were one of 842 libraries and state humanities councils awarded the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf grant from the NEH.
    • Supported the grant by helping with displays, creating a web page to highlight the materials.

  • On Committee for creating the MavVets project.

    • Worked on white paper for original internal grant.

Public Services University Library Associate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

September 2006- June 2008 University Library Associate, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Public Services Associate

  • Two year fellowship in Reference and Instruction.
  • Helped coordinate Library Reception at the School of Information to introduce new students to current library employees
  • Helped launch the SEGSI program (Skills Enrichment at the Grad. for School of Information)
    • Launched blog and wiki to support workshops.
  • Aided subject selector in evaluating current status of Screen Arts and Culture collection. Created spreadsheet showing current holdings and gaps in periodical collection.
  • Conducted and assisted with library orientation sessions for incoming School of Information graduate students.
  • Provided technology reference help at the Knowledge Navigation Center, and updated the library’s online FAQ for EndNote
  • Provided reference help through Ask Us and Ask Us Now, the Library’s email and chat reference services.
  • Taught workshops on bibliographic management software (Refworks and EndNote), searching the library catalogue, databases and Dreamweaver.

2007University of Michigan, Donald Hall Collection Summer 2007 Internship

  • Worked with media librarian on seeing how documentaries/films are evaluated and purchased.
  • Analyzed ephemera and supporting materials donated to the Donald Hall Collection, helped create a finding aid.
  • Created MARC records for collection (copy cataloguing).

The University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Summer 2005 Graduate mentor

  • Graduate mentor for the University Of Minnesota – Morehouse College/Atlanta System Undergraduate Honors Program in Global Issues summer seminar.
  • Helped students from historically unrepresented groups undergo an intensive academic experience attending a seminar class, and researching and writing an academic paper

2002-2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant, American Studies Department

  • Responsible for two sections per class, led class discussion, graded papers and tests, met individually with students for four semesters, University of Minnesota:
    • AMST 3252: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1900 to 1940 (Fall 2003), AMST 3253: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (Spring 2004), AMST 1001: American Popular Arts and Public Life, 1900-1940 (Fall 2004), AMST 3253: American Popular Culture and Politics: 1940 to the Present (Spring 2005).

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