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Robyn Hall
she/her
Interim Associate Dean
MLIS (Western), MA (Guelph), BA (Dalhousie)
+1 (780) 633-3478
Biography
Robyn Hall is a Scholarly Communications Librarian at MacEwan University. She coordinates the Library’s Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications unit, and manages MacEwan Open Journals, MacEwan Open Books, and MacEwan's institutional repository, Research Online at MacEwan (RO@M). She is also the subject librarian for Sociology and Gender Studies. She has presented widely on ways to make research more accessible to the public, as well as ways that libraries can support undergraduate research.
Selected Publications/Presentations/Conference Papers
- Hall, R. (2023, May). Taking it to the streets: Teaching public scholarship strategies for community impact and student success [Conference presentation]. Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) Conference, Montreal, QC.
- Symbaluk, D., Hall, R., & Champoux, G. (2019). Navigating an undergraduate degree in the social sciences: Tips and strategies. MacEwan Open Books. https://doi.org/10.31542/b.gm.2
- Hall, R. (2019, May 8). What we can learn from the online graveyard of inactive undergraduate student journals [Conference presentation]. Library Publishing Forum, Vancouver, BC.
- Hall, R. (2017, June 27). Exposing undergraduate research in institutional repositories [Poster presentation]. Open Repositories Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
- Betz, S., & Hall, R. (2015). Self-archiving with ease in an institutional repository: Microinteractions and the user experience. Information Technology and Libraries, 34(3), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v34i3.5900