Dr. Omer Farooq
- Research and Instruction Services, Associate Professor
General Information
Biography
Omer Farooq, PhD, is the Social Sciences Librarian at Criss Library. He conducts instruction sessions, research consultations, and workshops on literature reviews, research design, and analysis for undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, he leads the library's initiative in Research Data Services.
Teaching Interests
Information literacy instruction.
Research Interests
Information literacy instruction, assessment, curriculum design, research design. Application of cognitive and learning science in information literacy instruction.
Service Summary
Omer Farooq has been actively involved in promoting and assessing Research Data Services (RDS) on campus and with the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL) Research Data Services Working Group. Select recent service includes: AI Common Core Committee, ALA Data Analysis Special Interest Group (DASIG), Education Policy and Advisory Committee (EPAC), University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT), ACRL Education and Behavioral Science Section (EBSS) Research Committee, and the Nebraska Library Association's College and University Section Grant Committee.
Education
BA, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Psychology, 2000
MSLS, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Academic Librarianship, 2012
Ph D, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Library and Information Science, 2018
Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Bishop, Katie , Farooq, Omer, Swift, Andrew, Finlay, Stephen. 2025. Assessment of a textbook affordability initiative: A framework for measuring the impact on student enrollment and retention outcomes, Journal of Academic Librarianship, 51, 3.
Heppler, Jason, Farooq, Omer, Ehrig Page, Kathryn. 2022. Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study, Teaching Research Data Management.
Farooq, Omer, Maher, Monica. 2021. Synthesis and Generativity: Elaborative Interrogation Prompts for Graduate Information Literacy , Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47, 5.
Blackburn, Heidi, Farooq, Omer. 2019. LGBTQIA-R: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Medical Collection at a Public Metropolitan University, Collection Management.
Farooq, Omer. 2019. The Effect of Elaborative Interrogation on the Synthesis of Ideas from Multiple Sources of Information, Open Information Science, 3, 1, 76-87.