Tammi M. Owens
- Director of Research and Instruction Services
- Research and Instruction Services, Associate Professor
General Information
Biography
Tammi M. Owens is the Director of Research and Instruction Services, the Fine Arts Librarian, and an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha's Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library. Tammi is the co-author, with Carol Daul-Elhindi, of The 360 Librarian: A Framework for Integrating Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Critical Reflection in the Workplace, published by ACRL in 2020. Tammi is deeply committed to mentoring students in information seeking and retrieval, mindfully connecting with students in the classroom and throughout the university, and caring for the whole student through academic and social support. She holds BAs in Religious Studies and Art History from the University of Nebraska Omaha, an MA in Art History, and an MS in Library Science, both from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Research Interests
Library instruction and outreach, emotion and language use in library encounters, user experience in libraries, assessment of library use
Education
BA, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, Art History, Religious Studies, 2007
MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Art History, 2009
MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Library Science, 2012
Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Owens, Tammi, Daul-Elhindi, Carol. 2020. The 360 Librarian: A Framework for Integrating Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Critical Reflection in the Workplace, Association of College and Research Libraries.
Owens, Tammi, Bishop, Katie. 2018. “Let’s try it!”: Library outreach in a culture of yes, Public Services Quarterly, 14, 1, 75-82.
Owens, Tammi. 2013. Communication, Face Saving, and Anxiety at an Academic Library's Virtual Reference Service, Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 18, 2, 139-168.