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UIC Library Faculty Profile: Paula R. Dempsey, Associate Professor and Head Librarian, Research Services & Resources: Publications

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Publications: Librarianship

Sandra L. De Groote, Jung Mi Scoulas, Paula R. Dempsey, and Felicia Barrett. 2023. Factors affecting publication impact and citation trends over time. Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 18 (2), 2-16. https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/30206

Paula R. Dempsey, Adrienne Warner, Vera Lux & Linda Rich. 2022. On the Origin of Queries: Where Chat Reference Questions Begin. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/10875301.2022.2029790
 

2021. Referring Academic Library Chat Reference Patrons: How Subject Librarians Decide. Reference Services Review 49 (1): 94-110. https://doi-org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.1108/RSR-10-2020-0063

Jung Mi Scoulas, Sandra L. De Groote, and Paula R. Dempsey. 2020. Learning from data reuse: Successful and failed experiences in a large public research university library. IASSIST Quarterly 44 (1–2):1–15. https://doi.org/10.29173/iq966

Catherine Lantz and Paula R. Dempsey. 2019. Information Literacy Strategies Used by Second- and Third-year Biology Students. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship 92.

2019. Chat Reference Referral Strategies: Making a Connection, or Dropping the Ball? College & Research Libraries 80 (5):  674-693.

2018. How LIS Scholars Conceptualize Rigor in Qualitative Data. portal: Libraries and the Academy 18 (2): 363-390.

2017. Resource Delivery and Teaching in Live Chat Reference: Comparing Two Libraries.College & Research Libraries, 78 (7): 898-919.

2016. “Are you a computer?”: Opening Exchanges in Virtual Reference Shape the Potential for Teaching. College & Research Libraries.77 (4): 455-468.

Paula R. Dempsey and Heather Jagman. 2016. 'I Felt Like Such a Freshman’: First-Year Students Crossing the Library Threshold. portal: Libraries and the Academy 16 (1): 89-107. ALA/Library Instruction Round Table selection for top 20 articles for 2016.

2006. Interactive Service and Professional Culture: Academic Reference Librarians in a Changing Context. Advances in Library Administration and Organization 24: 95-120.

2002. With Holly Stec Dankert, Building Reference Strengths through Peer Training. Reference Services Review 30 (4): 349-354.

1998.  With Rosemarie Cooper, Christopher Millson-Martula, and Vanaja Menon, Remote Library Users: Needs and Expectations. Library Trends 47 (1): 42–64.

1998.  Ed. with Gail Gradowski, Kevin Roddy, and Loanne Snavely. Designs for Active Learning: A Sourcebook of Classroom Strategies for Information Education.  Chicago: American Library Association.

1996. "Focusing on the Experts: Mapping Resources in an Interdisciplinary Focus Area." Research Strategies 14: 177–183.  ALA/Library Instruction Round Table selection for top 20 articles for 1996.

Publications: Systematic Review

Abril, Eulàlia P. and Paula R. Dempsey. 2019. Outcomes of Healthy Eating Ad Campaigns: A Systematic Review. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 62 (1): 39-43.

Publications: Sociology

 “Consumer Debt and Christian Money Management: Messages from the Large U.S. Denominations.” Chap. 8 in Religious Giving: For Love of God. Ed. David H. Smith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Dissertation (Loyola University Chicago, 2006): More Money Than God: U.S. Christian Teachings on Personal Finance (with Distinction), Director: Fred Kniss, Ph.D. Ross Scherer Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology of Religion

With Dai Kejing. "Working Sisters from Outside: Rural Chinese Household Workers in Beijing."  In Jobs in Context: Circles and Settings (Current Research on Occupations and Professions, v. 10) Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1998.