About
I manage the Teaching & Learning Unit for the Michigan State University Libraries. Our unit teaches information literacy sessions for students taking a First Year Writing class from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (WRAC). Before coming to MSU, I spent time as an Instruction & Reference Librarian at Mars Hill College in Asheville, NC, an Elementary school teacher in Raleigh, NC and also as a Teacher of English as a Foreign Language while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Slovak Republic. Education
MA in Education, Michigan State University (2014)
MLIS, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2007)
BS in Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Millersville University of Pennsylvania (2000) Publications
Oberdick, Benjamin and Elizabeth Webster. (2020). Michigan State University Libraries. In C.C. Gardner, E. Galoozis & R. Halpern (Eds.). ACRL Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts. Chicago: ACRL.
Marcyk, Emilia and Benjamin Oberdick. (2017). Peer Research Assistant Program at Michigan State University. In E. Rinto, R. Mitola & J. Watts. (Eds.). Peer-Assisted Learning in Academic Libraries. New York: Libraries Unlimited.
DeJoy, Nancy, Sara Miller and Benjamin Oberdick. (2013). RAIDS for Research. In B. Bloom & M. Deyrup. (Eds.), Successful Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Research (137-154). Toronto: Scarecrow Press.
Memberships
American Library Association (ALA)
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
Library Orientation Exchange (LOEX)
