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Marty Miller

Art and Design Librarian

Marty Miller

Art and Design Librarian

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Experience

LSU Libraries - August 2013 to present
Metropolitan Community College - Longview Library - 2001 to August 2013
St. Teresa's Academy - 1997 to 1999
Spencer Art Reference Library, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1995 to 1997, 1999 to 2001

Education

Emporia State University - MLS, 1995
University of Kansas - MA, Art History, 1993
Bethany College - BA, Art, 1990

Presentations

Boutin-Cooper, Anna (Presenter), Miller, Marty (Presenter), Robinson, Shannon Marie (Presenter), Meg Milanewski (Moderator). “Please Don’t POP! Near Me: Neurodiversity and Library Work.” President’s Choice session, Art Libraries of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference: Pop! (April 4, 2024)
Miller, Marty (Moderator) “In Support of Digital Humanities,”, Digital Humanities Special Interest Group panel, Art Libraries of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference: Pop! (April 3, 2024)
Miller, M. A. (Presenter) “Building a Visual Literacy OER: Materials, Methods, and Progress So Far.” 2022 International Visual Literacy Conference: Connecting+Sharing+Envisioning the Futures of Visual Literacy. (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 11, 2022)
Miller, M. A. (Presenter), Kublek, P. (presenter) “Open Access to Visual Literacy: Coordinating Creation of Pilot OERs in Visual and Performing Arts” 2021 International Visual Literacy Conference: Seeing Across Disciplines: Visual Literacy and Education. (November 5, 2021)
Miller, M.A. (Presenter) “Surveying Visual Literacy: An Online Study of Visual Literacy Skill Levels of General Education Arts Course Students,” 2020 International Visual Literacy Conference-Visual Literacy in The Virtual Realm. (September 25, 2020)
Miller, M. A. (Presenter), O'Neill, B. (Presenter), LOUIS Users Conference, "Suffragettes in the News: Using America's Historic Newspapers for the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States Project," LOUIS, Baton Rouge, LA. (October 15, 2019).
Gulf South History & Humanities Conference (GSHHC), Baton Rouge, LA, October 4-6, 2018. “Visualizing the Battle of Baton Rouge: A Comparison of Contemporary Accounts,” with Brittany O’Neill on October 4, 2018.
LOUIS Users Conference (LUC) Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, September 13-14, 2018. Presentation with Rebecca Kelley, “The Hotel Bentley in the News: Tracing the History of a Landmark through the Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project,” September 13, 2018.
American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2018. Presentation, “Picturing Education: Historical Images in the Classroom, in the Field and around Campus in the LSU University Archives Photographs Collection,” Publication and Research Committee Forum (ACRL ARTS), June 23, 2018.
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Southeast Chapter Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, November 15-17, 2017. Presentation, “Surveying Students’ Visual Knowledge ‘Landscape:’ Adventures in Creating a Gen Ed Visual Literacy Measurement Tool,” November 17, 2017. LoPresti Book Award presentation as Chair of the LoPresti Award Committee.
NOLA Information Literacy Collective Forum 2017: A Faux Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 11, 2017. Served on the Visual/Data Literacy Panel.
Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference, Lafayette, LA, March 7-9, 2017 – Presentation, “The Arts and the Framework: The Challenge of Using the ACRL Framework to Promote Visual Literacy,” March 9, 2017.
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 5-9, 2017 - Poster Session presentation, “Artcaching: Exploring the Visual Arts of Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Beyond Through GPS-based Gaming” on February 7, 2017. Co-moderated ARLIS/NA Academic Division Meeting, February 8, 2017. Served as Local Arrangements Chair.
Louisiana Library Association, Shreveport, LA, March 25-27, 2015 – Presentation, “I Need Information About an Artist Called Margaret: Navigating Art Research Queries,” March 26, and “Making Engagement Fun: LSU Libraries Open House Events,” with Rebecca Kelley, Cristina Caminita and Emily Frank, March 27.
LOUIS Users Conference (LUC), Baton Rouge, LA, October 16-17, 2014 – Presentation, “Jumpstarting the Research Process: Promoting One-on-One Consultations to Meet Student Needs,” with Emily Frank and Cristina Caminita, October 17.
Louisiana Library Association, Lafayette, LA, March 26–28 2014 – Presentation “Oh Toto, I Have a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas (or Kentucky) Anymore: Strategies to Help You Along the Yellow Brick Road," with Emily Frank, March 26.

Publications

Miller, Marty. “Nada Shabout: The Challenge of Visual Literacy in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art.” Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory: Revisiting the Disruptions of Visual Thinkers in Education and Beyond. Edited by Ricardo Lopez-Leon and Dana Statton Thompson, Routledge, July 2024.
O’Neill, Brittany, Comeaux, David, Miller, Marty, Russo, Michael, Thompkins, Zachary. “The Trans* Collections Project: Conducting a Diversity Audit to Assess, Grow, and Make a Collection More Discoverable.” Inclusive Cataloging: Philosophical Questions and Case Studies in Reparative Cataloging. Edited by Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson and Rebecca Uhl.
Miller, Marty. “Visual Literacy Unframed: Planning an OER to Improve College-Level Visual Analysis Skills.” Unframing the Visual: Visual Literacy Pedagogy in Academic Libraries and Information Spaces. Edited by Maggie Murphy, et al, pp. 69-88.
Miller, M. Using Merrill's First Principles and Revised Bloom's Taxonomy to Select and Design H5P for a Visual Literacy OER. Art Libraries Journal 48(4):105-110 Oct 2023.
Wilson, Kaci; Hawk, Amanda; Miller, Marty. “Implementing a Hybrid Internship during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” New Review of Academic Librarianship 29(1):77-96 Jan 2023.
Kelley, Rebecca N., Marty Miller and Marcus Span. “So What Did You Do During the Pandemic? The Planning, Hosting and Outcomes of a Virtual Summer Research Forum.” Codex 6(2): 27–59, July 2021.
Miller, M. A. “Curriculum, Departmental, and Faculty Mapping and the Visual Arts Department.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, 38(1).
Miller, M. A. “Sacred vs Profane in The Great War of 1916: A Neutral’s Indictment: Louis Raemaekers’ Use of Religious Imagery in Adoration of the Magi and Our Lady of Antwerp.” Catholic Library World, 89(1), 20-32.
Hebert, Andrea and Miller, Marty. “Using FSA-OWI Photographs to Teach Information and Visual Literacy.” Louisiana Libraries, 79 (3): 19-25, Winter 2017.
Miller, Marty. “Art Research Questions: Tips and Resources for Non-Specialists.” Louisiana Libraries 78(1): 27-30 Fall 2015.
Caminita, Cristina, Frank, Emily, Kelley, Rebecca, Miller, Marty. “Let Them Eat King Cake: An Open House Pilot at LSU Libraries.” Innovative Solutions for Building Community in Academic Libraries, edited by Sheila Bonnand and Mary Ann Hansen. IGI Global. 2015, pp. 179-94.

Awards

Art Libraries Society of North America, Southeast Chapter Professional Development Award, 2024.
John Brubaker Memorial Award, best article of the year, 2018-2019. Presented for "Sacred vs Profane in The Great War of 1916: A Neutral’s Indictment: Louis Raemaekers’ Use of Religious Imagery in Adoration of the Magi and Our Lady of Antwerp." Catholic Library World, 89(1), 20-32.
Louisiana Library Association, Louisiana Library Association Article of the Year Award. Presented for “Using FSA-OWI Photographs to teach Information and Visual Literacy.” Louisiana Libraries, Vol. 79, Winter 2017: 19-25. Co-authored with Andrea Hebert.

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Architecture students present exhibit at Middleton Library

The final projects exhibit for ARCH 5004: Edges: Analog and Digital Fabrication will open on Sunday, Dec. 8th, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Middleton Library lobby. This is the “final chapter” in the 3D scanning project mentioned in a previous post on this class. Everyone is welcome to attend the

LSU Librarian attends course on the history of maps

Michael Taylor, LSU Libraries’ Assistant Curator of Books, recently attended a course on the history of maps and cartography at California Rare Book School. The week-long seminar covered topics such as map production, the role of maps as cultural and social objects, how maps are used in teaching and

Re: McDonogh/Bauer collection

The term “emancipator” might conjure the image of a saintly champion of justice who crusades against those in power to selflessly promote the liberation of oppressed persons. The McDonogh papers and Bauer collection challenge that caricature as they offer a more complex depiction of one person who

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