Joshua M. Avery

Joshua is the Team Leader for Access Services and Assessment at the Wheaton College Library and Associate Professor of Library Science. He studied at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, and the University at Albany, State University of New York.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Librarian, a scholarly journal exploring issues of academic libraries and librarianship. He has served on committees for the Illinois Library Association, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), and was elected to the executive committee for LIBRAS, a consortium of private college and university libraries located in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is a founding member of the Roundtable for Value-Driven Information Literacy.

His interests as a researcher and speaker include issues of virtue, religion and information, library assessment, information literacy, open access, integrated library systems, social media, library management, human computer interaction (HCI), and folksonomies. You can visit his Google Scholar Profile or ORCID Profile (ORCID: 0000-0002-6945-2457) to learn more about his research and writing agenda.

University at Albany, State University of New York - Albany, NY
M.S., Information Science

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

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

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

Book Chapters
Avery, Joshua M., and Cathy Troupos. “Wheaton College: Equipping Lifelong Learners” in Gardner, Carolyn Caffrey, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Rebecca Halpern, eds. Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts. Chicago: Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2020.

Selected Articles
Avery, Joshua M. “Information Hospitality, Academic Libraries, and Open Access.” Theological Librarianship 16, no 2 (October 26, 2023): 17-20. https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v16i2.3316

Avery, Joshua M. “The Open Access Availability of Articles from Highly Ranked Religious Studies Journals: A Study of Ten Journals.” Theological Librarianship 11, no. 1 (April 5, 2018): 12–17. https://doi.org/10.31046/tl.v11i1.465

Avery, Joshua M. “Implementing an Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) in a Special Focus Institution.” Digital Library Perspectives 32, no. 4 (January 1, 2016): 287–98. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-02-2016-0003

Yuan, Xiaojun, Chaomei Chen, Xiangmin Zhang, Josh Avery, and Tao Xu. “Effects of Domain Knowledge on User Performance and Perception in a Knowledge Domain Visualization System.” In Design, User Experience, and Usability. Web, Mobile, and Product Design, edited by Aaron Marcus, 601–10. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39253-5_67

Yuan, Xiaojun, Xiangman Zhang, Chaomei Chen, and Joshua M. Avery. “Seeking Information with an Information Visualization System: A Study of Cognitive Styles.” Information Research 16, no. 4 (2011). https://informationr.net/ir/16-4/paper499.html

Selected Reviews
Avery, Joshua M. Review of Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All by Baldwin, Peter. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 12, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.17056

Avery, Joshua M. Review of Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization, by Marcum, Deanna and Roger C. Schonfeld. The Library Quarterly 92, no. 3 (July 2022): 316–18. https://doi.org/10.1086/719917

Avery, Joshua M. Review of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access, by Eve, Martin Paul and Jonathan Gray. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 9, no. 1 (April 11, 2021). https://doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2412

Avery, Joshua. Review of Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History, by Kee, Kevin and Timothy Compeau, eds. College & Research Libraries 81, no 6. (September 10, 2020). https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.81.6.1046

Avery, Joshua M. Review of Enhancing Library and Information Research Skills: A Guide for Academic Librarians, by Luo, Lili, Kristine R. Brancolini, and Marie R. Kennedy. The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 5 (December 17, 2019). https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v5.33447 
 
Selected Presentations
Avery, Joshua M. “Hospitality in a Digital Age: How Open Scholarship Can Help Libraries Reclaim an Ancient Practice and Offer a More Inclusive Future.” Presentation at the 76th Atla Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, June, 2022.

Avery, Joshua M. “Adapting Online Instruction and Services.” Presentation at the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Spring Town Hall, March, 2021.

Troupos, Cathy, and Joshua. M. Avery. “Information Beyond College: Developing a Post-College Information Landscape.”Presentation at the Louisiana Virtual Academic Library Conference. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, November, 2019.

Avery, Joshua M., and Cathy Troupos. “Information Landscapes and Information Literacy: Incorporating the Personal Information Landscape into Information Literacy Instruction.”Poster presentation at the Illinois Library Association Annual Conference, Tinley Park, IL, October, 2019.

Troupos, Cathy, and Joshua M. Avery.“Information beyond college.” Presentation at the CARLI Instruction Showcase, North Park University, Chicago, IL, May 2019.

Allen, Seth, and Joshua M. Avery. “Social Media and Mainline Protestant Church Communities in the Middle West.” Presentation at the Fifth Annual International Conference on Information & Religion, Kent State University, Kent, OH, June, 2015.

Yuan, Xiaojun, Chaomei Chen, Xiangmin Zhang, Joshua M. Avery, and Tao Xu. “Effects of Domain Knowledge on User Task Performance in a Knowledge Domain Visualization System.” Poster at the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, IBM Research Center, Cambridge, MA, October, 2012.

Yuan, Xiaojun, Chaomei Chen, Xiangmin Zhang., Joshua M. Avery, and Alex Trofimovsky. “Seeking Information with an Information Visualization System: A Study On Individual Difference.” Poster accepted for the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2010 Conference, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.