Austin B. Waters

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Student Services Librarian

Research Focus: Legal Research Education, Library Instruction

CONTACT INFORMATION

221B  O'Brian Hall, North Campus
716-645-8595
bawaters@buffalo.edu

Publications

Articles

Fostering Community: The Library as a Third Space and the Effect of Social Capital on the Flow of Information among Law Students, 42(2) LEGAL REFERENCE SERVICES QUARTERLY 120 (June 2023).

Infinite Archives, Infinite Possibilities: Learning Research and Databases with Archive of our Own (with Alayna Vander Veer), 10.1 PROCEEDINGS FROM THE DOCUMENT ACADEMY (2023).

Chapters

Reflections on the Information Literacy Scholars Program at Syracuse University Libraries (with Kelly Delevan, Breeann Austin, Brie Baumert, Rebecca McCall, Lauren Quackenbush, Olivia Russo & Alayna L. Vander Veer), in TRAINING LIBRARY INSTRUCTORS (Matthew Johnson, ed., ACRL Publications in Librarianship, 2024).

The TikTok Effect: Utilizing Short Form Video to Overcome Cognitive Overload in Librarian Led Legal Research Education, in FROM CHAOS TO ORDER: ADDRESSING COGNITIVE OVERLOAD, (Courtney McAllister, ed., 2024).

Book Reviews

Book Review, Kate Kelly’s Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment, 115 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL 316 (2023) (reviewing ORDINARY EQUALITY: THE FEARLESS WOMEN AND QUEER PEOPLE WHO SHAPED THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT (Gibbs Smith, 2022)).