Joe Kohlburn is a doctoral candidate in information science, librarian, activist, and an arts advocate in St. Louis, MO.
I wrote an op-ed for the KC Star back in June to advocate on behalf of the long suffering Intellectual Freedom heads in Missouri. It's a dismal state of affairs, per usual, for school librarians, parents, kids, and others who value the freedom to read. Stickers of the below title are available for free if …
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Adkins, D., Bossaller, J., Butler, E., Castaño, W., Cho, H. and Kohlburn, J. (2024), "Commitment to Justice, Empathy, and Community During COVID-19: Results from a Three-Phase Study of Public Libraries", Irvin, V. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Reading Workplace Dynamics: A Post-Pandemic Professional Ethos in Public Libraries (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 55), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020240000055006 This chapter concludes our three-phase study of institutional responses to COVID-19 …
Bially Mattern, J., Kohlburn, J., Moulaison-Sandy, H. (2024). Why Academics Under-share Research Data: A Social Relational Theory. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) 75(8). https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24938 Our new theory deals with the mandates of industry and institutions and their impact on researchers. Our framing accounts for the under-sharing of data by researchers …
Abstract: Failure in serious games and its implications for scaffolding learning towards exploration remain understudied. We hypothesize providing more opportunities for safe failure leads to higher retention of concepts. Our case study examines the difference between including extra lives into a prototype serious game for geography through a quasi-experimental design that captured learning outcomes and …
Latest article, a pilot study on the impact that intellectual freedom challenges is having on Missouri public librarians. This trend in stigmatizing library workers is not good, and we need to make it stop. These folks are my colleagues and friends, who work everyday to provide access to information and resources for their community. We, …
This is my first first-author article with Hyerim Cho and Hollis Moore. In this one we look at implications for user-centered analysis of Steam reviews in terms of gamers perceive and engage with sexual and gender identity in games. We do a random sample of reviews in 4 games- Night in the Woods, Undertale, Dream …
This paper is the result interviews with 23 library managers across the US, wherein we try to get to the bottom of their COVID-19 response, unpacking decision-making processes and learning what they need to more effectively support their communities during a public health crisis. Bossaller, J, Kohlburn, K, Cho, H, Moulaison-Sandy, H, and D Adkins. …
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This article in JDoc is the culmination of collaboration with three wonderful researchers, Hyerim Cho, Cassandra Huang and Wan-Chen Lee. Check out the abstract. The ideas here are related to future studies that are coming down the pipe in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned for those! Cho, H., Lee, W.-C., Huang, L.-M. and Kohlburn, J. (2022), "User-centered categorization of mood …
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