University Libraries

Education

• M.S. Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
• M.A. Linguistics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
• B.A. English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Recent Scholarship

Publications

Green, A. (In press). From politics to housing costs to faculty status to salary: Thirteen job elements and their importance to academic library employees. Library Leadership & Management, 38(4).

Green, A. (2024). Satisfaction with remote work options among academic library employees: Implications for recruitment and retention. Journal of Library Administration, 64(5), 2351247, https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2024.2351247

Green, A. (2023). Academic library employees and their work modality options and preferences. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(5), 102764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102764

Green, A. (2022). Post Covid-19: Expectations for academic library collections, remote work, and resource description and discovery staffing. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102564

Green, A. (2021). Metadata application profiles in U. S. academic libraries: A document analysis. Journal of Library Metadata, 21(3-4), 105-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2022.2030172

External Grants

Green, A. (Co-principal), Mitchem, P. P. (Co-principal), & Rice, D. M. (Co-principal). (2023, June). Digital collaborations in Western North Carolina, a 2023–24 Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) “Responsive Organizations” Planning Grant, $25,010. 

Green, A. (2020, October). Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) Professional Development Grant for participation in the 2020 Wikidata Institute.

Presentations

Green, A. Navigating change: Insights from a metadata librarian on migrating to a new IR. 2024 Charleston Conference, November 11-15. 

Hitchner, A., & Green, A. (2023, November 16). Digital Public Library of America Metadata Working Group: Overview of Metadata Best Practices Report [webinar]. Digital Public Library of America "Coffee Chat" series. [Non-refereed].

Green, A., Mitchem, P. P., and Rice, D. M. (2022, April 27). “Kelly E. Bennett Papers: Apostle of the Smokies” Tourism in Appalachia: A Public Presentation Highlighting Collections and Research on the Tourism Industry and Its Impact on the Appalachian Region. Webinar. [Non-refereed].

Green, A. (2021, April). Considerations for an inclusive institutional repository, Lightning Talk pre-recorded and presented at ACRL 2021 virtual conference, April 13-16, 2021.

Green, A. (2019, August 2). Signatures as identity tool: Implications for name authority work in historical collections and beyond, Research Forum poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Austin, TX. 

Green, A. (2019, June 22). Searching for this “Brown, Nathaniel” and not that one: A comparison of tools for searching LC authority files, poster session presented at the annual conference of the American Library Association, Washington, D. C. 

Web Exhibits

Rice, D. M., Green, A., and Mitchem, P. P., (2022, April) “Kelly E. Bennett Papers: Apostle of the Smokies.” https://digitalcollections.library.appstate.edu/s/bennett/page/kellybennett

Research in Progress: (2025)

• Institutional Repositories and AI: Policies, Practices, and Perspectives
• Digital Appalachia: Analyzing the Region’s Representation in Digital Public Library of America Metadata

Recent Service

• University Research Council, Appalachian State University, 2024-27
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, Co-Chair, 2023-24
• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Publications Coordinating Committee, 2023-25
• Editorial Board, Information Technology and Libraries, 2022-24
• University Registration and Calendar Committee, 2021-24
• University Libraries, Bivens Committee, 2023-25

Research Interests

• Metadata application profile development and implementation
• Identity management, name authority work, and linked data applications
• Digital repositories 
• Data curation
• Digital preservation and access of research, scholarly, and creative outputs
• The role of digital collections in Appalachia
• Academic libraries in the post pandemic landscape