Instruction and Community Engagement Librarian As Instruction and Community Engagement Librarian for the Hargrett Library in UGA Special Collections, Dr. Kathryn Manis works with instructors across UGA to provide meaningful, engaging introduction to research with primary source materials and to ensure that students are familiar with the resources available to them via Special Collections and UGA Libraries, broadly. They also partner with communities across the state on cultural heritage preservation efforts, grant-writing, programming and events, and more, honoring UGA’s land and sea grant responsibilities and encouraging academic libraries to see “engagement” as long-term and collaborative, rather than short-term and extractive. Dr. Manis holds an MA in Art History from the University of New Mexico, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University. Their research and publications are interdisciplinary, engaging comp/rhet arguments, Queer/LGBTQIA+ histories and scholarship, Library and Information Science (LIS) research, and decolonial praxis.
