Biography

Joshua’s research interests include library outreach, information literacy, open access (OA), integrated library systems, social media, human computer interaction (HCI), religion and information, and folksonomy.

Education (3)

University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH: B.A., Magna Cum Laude, History 2006

Miami University - Oxford, OH: M.A., History 2008

Thesis: Subject and citizen: Loyalty, memory and identity in the monographs of the reverend Samuel Andrew Peters

University of Albany, SUNY - Albany, NY: M.S., Information Science 2010

Professional Affiliations (4)

• American Library Association
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Association of Christian Librarians
• Beta Phi Mu

Presentations and Event Appearances (3)

Social media and mainline protestant church communities in the middle west

Presentation at Fifth Annual Internaational Conference on Information & Religion  Kent State University, Kent, OH, June 2015

Migration to an Open Source ILS: Trends, expereinces, and recommendations

Presentation at the annual conference of the Association of Christian Librarians  Carson Newman University - Jefferson City, TN, June 2015

Effects of domain knowldge on user task perfomance in a knowledge domain visualizations system

Poster at the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval  IBM Research Center - Cambridge, MA, October 2012

Select Articles, Chapters, Reviews, and Other Publications (7)

Review of "Emblem of Faith Untouched: A short life of Thomas Cranmer," by Leslie Williams

The Christian Librarian, 60(1)

Avery, J. M.

2017

Review of "Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers," by Kevin L. Smith

Biblical Higher Education Journal

Avery, J.M.

2017

Implementing an open source integrated library system (ILS) in a special focus institution

Digital Library Perspectices

Avery, J.M.

2016

Review of "Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists," by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura R. Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb

The Christian Librarian

2016

Effects of domain knowledge on user performance and perception in a knowledge domain visualization system

In A. Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design: Second International Conference, DUXU2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Yuan, X. J., Chen, C., Zhang, X., Avery, J. & Xu, T.

July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 601-610). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39253-5_67

Seeking information with an information visualization system: A study on individual difference. Information Research

16(4) paper 499

Yuan, X. J., Zhang, X. J., Chen, C., & Avery, J.

2011

The Democratization of Metadata: Collective Tagging, Folksonomies and Web 2.0

Library Student Journal, 5

Avery, J. M

February, 2010