Holly Jackson

Holly is the Interim Associate Director for North Hall Library and is located at the Mansfield Campus. Her research primarily deals with library instruction/assessment, library collaborations, student employees in library collaborations, gamification in the classroom, and academic librarianship. Along with her library duties, she’s also the advisor for Alpha Sigma Alpha and the Carontawan yearbook. A passion project of hers is her work with the Library Writing Cooperative, which she helped co-found. Find out more about the LWC and their projects here: https://sites.google.com/uri.edu/library-writing-cooperative/home 

Publications
•    Jackson, Holly A. “Creating instruction assessment that goes beyond attendance and number of sessions.” The Small to Mid-Size Academic Library: Assessment and Leveraging Standards and     Frameworks, eds. Camille Abdeljawad & Danielle Theiss. Chicago: ACRL, forthcoming 2026. 
•    Jackson, Holly A. “Faculty perspective: A firsthand account.” Integrating Academic Libraries: When Institutions Merge, eds. Scott DiMarco, Courtney Heatley, et al. Chicago: ACRL, forthcoming 2026. 
•    Jackson, Holly A. “Writing center and library partnerships: Ways to collaborate together.” East Central Writing Centers Association (ECWCA) Journal 1 (Spring 2025), March 2025. https://ecwca.wildapricot.org/resources/ECWCA%20Journal/ECWCA%20Journal%20-%20Issue%20Zero.pdf   
•    Jackson, Holly A. and Taylor Donahue. “Creating library programming in partnership with residence life on college campuses.” LOEX Quarterly 50(2), Summer 2023. https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1433&context=loexquarterly    
•    Jackson, Holly A. “From committee to classroom: Growing your instructional identity together with colleagues and through class instruction.” Instructional Identities and Information Literacy, Volume 3: Transforming Student Learning and Information-Seeking Experiences, ed. Amanda Nichols Hess. Chicago: ACRL, June 2023. 
•    Jackson, Holly A. “Engaging Students’ Curiosity through Library-Based Puzzles in Escape Rooms.” Intellectual curiosity and the role of libraries: The first and second year college student experience, eds. Cynthia Tysick and Tiffany Walsh. Buffalo: SUNY Create Pressbooks, February     2023. https://intellectualcuriosity.pressbooks.sunycreate.cloud/chapter/engaging-students-curiosity-through-library-based-puzzles-in-escape-rooms/ 
•    Jackson, Holly A. "Using existing fandoms to create your own library stories: How a Harry Potter-inspired murder mystery introduced first year students to the library." Once Upon a Time in the Academic Library: Storytelling Skills for Librarians, eds. Maria Barefoot, Sara Parme, and Elin Woods. Chicago: ACRL, 2022.