Eamon C. Tewell McCord (He/Him/His)
Head, Research Support and Outreach
- Science, Engineering, & Social Sciences Libraries
About
Eamon Tewell (pronounced AY-mun Tool) is Head of Research Support and Outreach at Columbia University Libraries. In this role, he supports a team of subject librarians in the sciences and social sciences and identifies ways to meet the research and learning needs of students and faculty through reference and instruction.
Selected Publications
"Two Decades of Critical Information Literacy: A Review and Analysis of the Literature." College & Research Libraries 87, no. 4 (2026): 415-432.
"Working Conditions are Learning Conditions: Understanding Information Literacy Instruction through Neoliberal Capitalism." With Romel Espinel. Communications in Information Literacy 17, no. 2 (2023): 573-590.
"Redesigning an Academic Library Internship Program with Equity in Mind: Reflections and Takeaways." With Karen Wang, Kae Bara Kratcha, and Wei Yin. College & Research Libraries News 83, no. 9 (2022): 385-388.
"The Problem With Grit: Dismantling Deficit Thinking in Information Literacy Instruction." portal: Libraries and the Academy 20, no. 1 (2020): 137-159.
Reference Librarianship & Justice: History, Practice & Praxis. Co-edited with Kate Adler and Ian Beilin. Library Juice Press, 2018.
"The Practice and Promise of Critical Information Literacy: Academic Librarians' Involvement in Critical Library Instruction." College & Research Libraries 79, no. 1 (2018): 10-34.
"Responding to and Reimagining Resilience in Academic Libraries." With Jacob Berg and Angela Galvan. Journal of New Librarianship 3, no. 1 (2018).
"Teaching and Un-Teaching Source Evaluation: Questioning Authority in Information Literacy Instruction." With Katelyn Angell. Communications in Information Literacy 11, no. 1 (2017): 95-121.
"Toward the Resistant Reading of Information: Google, Resistant Spectatorship, and Critical Information Literacy." portal: Libraries and the Academy 16, no. 2 (2016): 289-310.
"A Decade of Critical Information Literacy: A Review of the Literature." Communications in Information Literacy 9, no. 1 (2015): 24-43.