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Marty
Miller
Job Title
Art and Design Librarian
Office Building
Staff Email
martymiller@lsu.edu
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
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.
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.
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.
Phone Number
225-578-7197
Subject Area
Art & Design
French Studies and World Languages and Literatures
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