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Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Integration, Scholarship of Community Application

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Academic librarians support the research of their college or university community, but also conduct their own research. This presentation focuses on the intersection of the two, featuring the presenter's experience solving bibliographic mysteries of unique 18th century pamphlets and tracking down books heisted from her library 30 years ago.

Emily D. Spunaugle is Assistant Professor, Humanities and Rare Books Librarian at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Her research is at the intersection of book history and women's writings of the long eighteenth century and appears in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Romantic Circles, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and elsewhere. Spunaugle is Chair of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and an Associate Editor for SHARP News of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. She holds masters degrees from Loyola University Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a doctoral candidate at Wayne State University in book history and the 18th century. She graduated in 2012 with a BA in English from Olivet Nazarene.

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[Phi Delta Lambda Sponsored Session] "Scholar Adventures": Bibliographic Detective Work as an Academic Librarian

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Academic librarians support the research of their college or university community, but also conduct their own research. This presentation focuses on the intersection of the two, featuring the presenter's experience solving bibliographic mysteries of unique 18th century pamphlets and tracking down books heisted from her library 30 years ago.

Emily D. Spunaugle is Assistant Professor, Humanities and Rare Books Librarian at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Her research is at the intersection of book history and women's writings of the long eighteenth century and appears in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Romantic Circles, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, and elsewhere. Spunaugle is Chair of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and an Associate Editor for SHARP News of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. She holds masters degrees from Loyola University Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a doctoral candidate at Wayne State University in book history and the 18th century. She graduated in 2012 with a BA in English from Olivet Nazarene.