Human Services Librarian & Librarian for UT Athletics
Assistant Professor, College of University Libraries and Academic Support
419-530-4493
Fax: 419-530-2542
brian.hickam@utoledo.edu
Assistant Professor, Carlson Library, Human Services Librarian and Librarian for UT Athletics, The University of Toledo, August 2009 -- present
Liaison to the five human services departments of the College of Health Science and Human Service (HSHS): Counselor Education & School Psychology; Criminal Justice; Military Science & Leadership; Social Work; and Undergraduate Legal Specialties. My instruction and collection development activities for the sixteen associated programs and UT Athletics include: performing reference and research consultations for professors, staff, and students; providing information literacy to classes; and recommending the purchase of books, journals, databases, videos, etc. With Athletics, I hold regular office hours twice a week at the Larimer Student Center. I assist student- athletes with finding the journal articles, statistics, books, and other sources they need for their papers, presentations, and assignments.
Courses taught:
- CRIM 6980 "Criminal Justice & Popular Culture" (co-instruct with Morris Jenkins, Criminal Justice Dept., during summer sessions; on online course with graduate students), 2009 - present
- CRIM 4990 "Criminal Justice & Popular Culture" (co-instruct with Morris Jenkins, Criminal Justice Dept., during summer sessions; a traditional course with undergraduates), 2009 - present
- COMM 2400 "Introduction to Communication" taught one time, spring semester 2007.
Assistant Professor, Carlson Library, Librarian for the College of Health Science and Human Service and UT Athletics, The University of Toledo, May 2004 – July 2009
Prior to coming to The University of Toledo, Professor Hickam was the Head of Reference at the Mansfield campus of The Ohio State University for five years.
Newsletter article: "Archiving the History of a Loud Leisure Activity" (co-authored with Thomas Atwood, Coordinator of Information Literacy & Library Instruction at The University of Toledo) is a feature article that was published in the March 2009 (issue 82; pp. 32 - 34) of the Leisure Studies Association Newsletter (Eastbourne, UK).
Book Chapter: "Planning an Information Commons: Our Experiences at The University of Toledo's Carlson Library" (Co-authored with John Phillips, Associate Professor & Maps and Reference Librarian, The University of Toledo Libraries) appears in the book Our New Public, A Changing Clientele: Bewildering Issues or New Challenges for Managing Libraries? (Libraries Unlimited, 2008; edited by Gerard B. McCabe).
Presentations
Accepted/ forthcoming paper presentation at an International conference:
"Spreading the Disease: How Scholarly Communication, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives are Establishing Heavy Metal Studies as a Rising Force" at the 2nd annual Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, metal and Politics conference – (part of the Critical Issues Series sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.net; November 10 – 12, 2009; Salzburg, Austria).
Accepted/ forthcoming panel discussion at a Regional conference:
The panel "Rock 'n' Roll History: Current Scholarship and Research" (chaired by Brian Hickam) at the 2009 Midwest Popular Culture Association and Midwest American Culture Association Conference, Detroit, Michigan, October 30-November 1, 2009- with Erica K. Arogyropoulos, University of Kansas, presenting "A Thousand Pages, Give or Take a Few: Transcribing the Beatles," followed by "Rising Force: The Current State of Heavy Metal Scholarship," with Brian Hickam, University of Toledo Libraries, Thomas Atwood, University of Toledo Libraries, Laura Wiebe Taylor, McMaster University, Jeremy Wallach, Bowling Green State University.
Accepted/ forthcoming paper presentation at an International conference:
"Female [Author]ity and Dominion: Discourse and Distinctions of Heavy Metal Scholarship" at the Heavy Metal and Gender - An International Conference, to be held October 8-10, 2009 at the University of Music Cologne / Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany. - Co-written & co-presented with Jeremy Wallach, Associate Professor, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University.
Accepted/ forthcoming paper presentation at an International conference:
"Common Law” & Common Ground: Our Path to Mutual Cultural Literacies with our Direct-from-high school Students in a One-Semester Criminal Justice & Popular Culture Course" at the First Annual International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration, to be held October 5th, 6th & 7th 2009 in Terre Haute, Indiana. (Sponsored by: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Indiana State University)- Co-written & co-presented with Morris Jenkins, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, The University of Toledo.
Regional conference: "Visual Thinking & Learning Applications: Educational & Commercial Communities" (co-presented with Jeffrey J. Jablonski, Head Instructional Designer at The University of Toledo, Laura S. Johnson, Learning Specialist with The University of Toledo Department of Athletics, & Tom Crawford, CEO of Vizthink) was presented at The University System of Ohio's Learning, Libraries + Technology 2009 conference (March 1-3, 2009, Columbus, Ohio).
International conference: “Filling the Void: The Heavy Metal Archiving Project” (presentation of scholarly paper co-authored with Thomas Atwood, Coordinator Information Literacy & Library Instruction at The University of Toledo) – at the Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, metal and Politics conference – (part of the Critical Issues Series; November 3 – 5, 2008; Salzburg, Austria). http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/mmp/mmp.html
Our paper discusses our project with Bowling Green State University to establish a special collection of books, magazines, and recordings on heavy metal music and culture within the Sound Recordings Archive.
Panel Discussion at international conference: Member of the roundtable discussion "A New Subfield?: Comics and Music" at the Comic Book In Popular Culture Conference (October 24-25, 2008, Bowling Green State University).
Fellow panelists were: Jeremy Wallach (Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University and Chair of panel discussion); William Schurk (Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University); Matthew Donahue (Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University); and Per Broman (Musicology, Composition & Theory, Bowling Green State University).
University of Toledo seminar: "Banned and Censored Rock 'n' Roll" presented at The University of Toledo's Banned Books Week 2008 (Sept. 25, 2008).
National conference: “UT’s Athletics Learning Community- Strategies for Campaigning for and Creating an Athletics Learning Community” (Co-presented with Thomas Atwood, Information Literacy Librarian at The University of Toledo, Laura S. Johnson, Learning Specialist for Athletics at The University of Toledo, and Mike Meade, Assistant Athletic Director for Academics at The University of Arizona) - 12th Annual National Learning Communities Conference: Students at the Center (November 8, 2007; Indianapolis, Indiana).
University of Toledo seminar: “Censorship through Blacklisting in the Sciences and Higher Ed” at The University of Toledo’s Banned Books Week 2006 seminar (Sept. 28, 2006).
Invited presentation at regional conference: “The Impressive Evolution of Visualization Tools” - OHIONET Annual Membership Meeting/Conference (April 20th, 2006; Columbus, OH).
National conference: “A Creative Collaboration of Life Skills, Learning Styles, and Information Literacy” (Co-presented with Laura Johnson, Learning Specialist for Athletics at The University of Toledo, and Jennifer Kulics, Assistant Athletics Director for Academic Services at Kent State University) – NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills Continuing Education Conference (February 13th, 2006; Phoenix, AZ).
Poster session at regional conference: "Using Visual-Spatial Learning Strategies in Academic Interventions with Student-athletes" (Co-presented with Laura Johnson, Learning Specialist for Athletics at The University of Toledo) Academic Library Association of Ohio 2005 Annual Conference (November 4, 2005; Columbus, OH).
University of Toledo seminar: “Book Censorship and the Ongoing Culture Wars” at The University of Toledo’s Banned Books Week 2004 seminar (Sept. 22, 2004).