Editorial Work

Library Exhibitions Review, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)

LER is a publication of ARLIS/NA’s Exhibitions Special Intrest Group. This journal provides an open and accessible virtual platform dedicated to preserving and archiving exhibitions in both physical and digital formats. Our inaugural issue was published in Spring 2023.

2022-present, Co-Editor

Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals

Pathfinder is a student and early-career led, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to promoting the scholarly work of students and early-career information professionals from across Canada.

Ashley formally supported Pathfinder as an Associate Editor, now as EIC. To learn more about Pathfinder visit the journal or follow us on twitter.

2021-2022, Editor-in-Chief

2021, Associate Editor

Publications

Huot. A. (2024). “The undead archive: 100 years of photographing ghosts” at the university of manitoba archives and special collections. Library Exhibitions Review, 2. https://doi.org/10.17613/yqxn-3p02

Huot, A. (2023). How are Art Librarians Using Information Literacy Instruction to Support Art Studio Students?. Pathfinder: A Canadian Journal for Information Science Students and Early Career Professionals, 4(1), 150–161. https://doi.org/10.29173/pathfinder64

Huot, A. (2022). Empower: Association of Architecture School Librarians Conference Report. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/36580

Huot, A. (2021). Prison zines: Relations, communication, and records. Progressive Librarians Guild. http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/Braverman/braverman2021huot.pdf

Blog Publications

Huot, A. (2024). Interviews with canadian art librarians and archivists blog series: Amy marshall furness (sh/her), rosmond ivey special. Art library students and new ARLIS/NA professionals. https://arlisnap.arlisna.hcommons.org/2024/11/29/interviews-with-canadian-art-librarians-archivists-blog-series-eng-sengsavang-she-her-reference-archivist-unesco-2/

Huot, A. (2024). Interviews with canadian art librarians and archivists blog series: Liv valmestad, art librarian, university of manitoba. Art library students and new ARLIS/NA professionals. https://arlisnap.arlisna.hcommons.org/2024/09/01/interviews-with-canadian-art-librarians-archivists-blog-series-liv-valmestad-art-librarian-university-of-manitoba/

Conference & Public Presentations  

Cowan, S. & Huot, A. (2024). Role of Research-Creation in Libraries/ Role of Libraries in Research-Creation. Pass the POPcorn: Snack-sized talks on working with research-based artists. (panel presentation). ARLISNA 52 POP, Art Libraries Society of North America Conference. 

Alcaraz, A. & Huot, A. (2022), Pathfinder: Exploring New Roads (lightning talk, co-presenter). Student Journal Forum, University of Toronto, Canada.

As the editors of a student-led, open-access journal, we hope to cultivate not only a solid platform for publishing but also an environment where team members can grow their knowledge and gain transferable skills. Now that we are in a position of relative stability, we can begin to critically examine our practices, to identify areas where we can explore more equitable and inclusive publishing practices and provide deeper learning and support for our editors and peer reviewers.

Huot, A. & Wurmann, K. (2021), About Prison Libraries: How to Read a Prison (public presentation, co-presenter), Burlitfest: Literacy Festival, Art Gallery of Burlington, and Burlington Public Library.

This presentation by MLA PLC members discussed prison librarianship, the work of the plc, and highlighted the importance of supporting creative programming for incarcerated people, discussing the arts as storytelling and drawing connections to the exhibition How to Read a Vessel.

Huot, A. (2021), Librarians & Open Pedagogy in the Studio: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills (poster presentation), Art Library Students and New ARLIS/NA Professionals (ArLiSNAP), and Visual Resources Association’s Emerging Professionals And Students Group (VREPS) conference. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/36503

This poster illustrates how the constructivist nature of open pedagogy/OERs are well suited to research-creation methodologies utilized in studios; and how embedded librarians engaging studio-based students in creating and contributing to open pedagogy/OERs provides opportunities to scaffold the unique information literacy competencies of art/architecture fields of study while building important transferable skills.

Huot, A. (2021), Braverman Prize Essay Presentations: Prison Zines: Relations, Communication, and Records (paper presentation), Progressive Librarians Guild, ALA Conference gathering

This presentation was part of the Progressive Librarian Guild’s annual meeting at the ALA Annual Conference, highlighting recipient essays of The Braverman Memorial Prize. This essay presentation examined the impact of information marginalization on incarcerated people, and argues that “through the production of zines, inmates can build accessible modes of self-expression, connection, and create a record of their community’s experience.”

Huot, A., Williams, K. & Wurmann, K. (2021), Prisons and Libraries: Better Together (panel presentation, co-presenter), Libraries: Better Together, Manitoba Library Association and Saskatchewan Library Association joint conference

This panel presentation shares Manitoba’s Prison Libraries Committees’ (PLC) experience shifting services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PLC’s commitment to supporting racialized and marginalized community members, and the committee’s learnings and future considerations derived from the development and piloting of a new email reference service for inmates.

Huot, A. (2021), A Call for Connection and Collaboration in Information Literacy Instruction for Studio Arts (poster presentation, peer-reviewed), Convergence = Créativité + Collaboration, Art Libraries Society of North America Conference.

This poster presentation highlights findings from a literature review examining how art librarians are using information literacy instruction (ILI) to support student research and information needs in art studio practices. This review contextualizes the topic, identifies current strategies, gaps, and considerations for areas of future growth for this student population that is often underserved by libraries. The review thematically considers the impact of standards and frameworks on ILI in the arts and current strategies in art information literacy instruction. Findings include a need for growth and literature on the subject, disconnects between literature from the field of art, art history, and librarianship, and that recent competency documents have resulted in significant and beneficial pedagogical shifts, concluding that there are many promising future areas of growth and innovative potential for ILI in studio art contexts.

Huot, A. (2020), Supporting Creative Information Literacy for Studio Art Environments (poster presentation), Visualizing Your Future Art Information Career Conference, ArLiSNAP and VREPS.

This poster presentation outlines the process of researching and designing an Information Literacy Instruction session for a novice academic student studio art environment. The workshop utilizes the structure of the Teaching Tripod Approach and draws on The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Higher Education, and CREATE, a device that contextualizes IL for studio students by focusing on conceptual foundations and how IL relates to the studio process. This poster provides an overview and reflection of the workshop design process, as well as poses further questions and considerations that emerged.

Featured Projects

2024-2025, The Prairie Abolition Research Cluster, Member

Funded by the University of Manitoba’s Institute for the Humanities, “The Prairie Abolition Research Cluster comes out of the urgent need to understand what prison abolition means on the prairies, on treaty land and occupied land where Indigenous people are disproportionately incarcerated. This Research Cluster regards prisons as a core part of the settler colonial project on the prairies. Working together, members will explore abolition within the specific context of Indigenous resistance, including movements and calls for land back. Part of this Research Cluster is also involved in tracing Indigenous practices and theories of justice and repair that exceed settler colonialism and its recent history.”

2022, OER by Discipline: University of Manitoba Edition

Hosted by Campus Manitoba Pressbooks collection, the OER by Discipline Guide is a new supportive resource listing a broad range of open textbooks and open educational resources organized by U of M academic programs; to be used as a tool to promote the use, adaptation, and creation of free and accessible learning materials for faculties. Ashley was part of an OER committee of UML librarians that contributed to this new resource.

2021, Email Reference Service, Prison Libraries Committee (PLC)

As part of a practicum with the Manitoba Library Association, Ashley led the research, design, and piloting of a new email reference service offered to youth and adult prisoners in 3 provincial prisons. The PLC believes prison libraries and literacy play an important role in peoples’ reintegration into communities and provides thoughtful programming and access to meaningful and relevant reading materials to help improve individuals’ quality of life both inside and outside of correctional institutions. This new and growing reference service provides inmates with increased access to information to meet specific information needs.

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