Tammi Owens

Biography

Tammi Owens is the First-Year Engagement Librarian, Fine Arts Librarian, and an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha's Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library. She plans, implements, and assesses the library's first-year engagement initiatives through orientations, information literacy instruction, and outreach to first-year students. She encourages undergraduate student populations to become more active and engaged users of the library, with a special emphasis on those new to library research. Tammi is the co-author, with Carol Daul-Elhindi, of The 360 Librarian: A Framework for Integrating Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Critical Reflection in the Workplace, published by ACRL in 2020. She holds BAs in Religious Studies and Art History from the University of Nebraska Omaha, an MA in Art History, and an MS in Library Science, both from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Research Interests

Library instruction and outreach, emotion and language use in library encounters, user experience in libraries, assessment of library use

Education

BA, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, Art History, Religious Studies, 2007

MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Art History, 2009

MS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Library Science, 2012

Selected Publications

Owens, Tammi, Daul-Elhindi, Carol. 2020. The 360 Librarian: A Framework for Integrating Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Critical Reflection in the Workplace, Association of College and Research Libraries.