Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctorate in Library and Information Studies August 2019
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
"We Could Do Better": The Presence, Absence, and Librarian Perceptions of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Resources in Small and Rural Libraries in Alabama
Supervisory Committee: Don Latham (Major Professor), Michelle Kazmer, Howard Rodriguez-
Mori, and Petra Doan (University Representative)
Master of Science in Library and Information Studies May 2014
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Certificate in Youth Services 2013
Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Women's Studies, minor: Religion May 2011
Bachelor of Arts in Religion, minor: Women's Studies
Bachelor of Arts in English (Creative Writing), minor: Latin
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor 2022-Present
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL
IS 403: Children’s Materials
IS 413: Teen Materials
Adjunct Professor 2022-Present
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
LIBS 608: Foundations of Library and Information Science
LIBS 612: Research Methods in Library and Information Science
LIBS 644: Literature and Media for Young Adults
LIBS 648: Graphic Novels
LIBS 657: LGBTQIA+ Issues in Public Libraries [Developed]
LIBS 658: Knowledge Resources: Planning, Selecting, and Managing Collections
LIBS 695: Special Topics: Community Archives [Developed]
Adjunct Professor 2023, 2020
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
LIS 4022: Writing for the Information Professions
LIS 5020: Foundations of the Information Professions
LIS 5916: LGBTQIA+ Issues in Public Libraries [Developed]
LIS 5916: Ethics for Information Professionals
Adjunct Professor 2022-2023
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
MLIS 7000: Foundations of Library and Information Science
Visiting Lecturer 2021-2022
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
LIBS 608: Foundations of Library and Information Science
LIBS 612: Research Methods in Library and Information Science
LIBS 644: Literature and Media for Young Adults
LIBS 658: Knowledge Resources: Planning, Selecting, & Managing Collections
Visiting Assistant Professor 2019-2020
Florida State University
IDS 2144: Information Ethics for the 21st Century
IDS 2634: Information Literacy and Society
Instructor Summer 2019
Florida State University
Summer iCamp: Evaluating Information Sources (#FakeNews) [developed]
Graduate Lead Instructor
Florida State University
LIS 3021: Technical Communications for the Information Professions 2016-2019
LIS 4022: Writing for the Information Professions 2016
Teaching Assistant
Florida State University
LIS 5703: Information Organization Fall 2018
LIS 5577: Graphic Novels for Libraries Summer 2016, 2017, and 2018
LIS 5567: International Literature for Children and Young Adults Summer 2016
LIS 3021: Technical Communications for the Information Professions Fall 2015
IFS 2041: Information Ethics for the 21st Century Spring 2015
LIS 5565: Information Needs of Young Adults Fall 2014
Guest Lectures
Do We Even Exist?: Cataloging and Classification of LGBTQ Materials
Resources for/about LGBTQ Children and Young Adults
bell hooks, Feminism is for Everyone
Purity, Femininity, Submission: Examining Evangelical Movements in the U.S.
Research and Other Positions
Assistant Director 2021-2022
Invisible Histories Project, Birmingham, AL
Researcher
ACRL and Information Literacy in Community College Libraries Spring/Summer 2021
IMLS-funded project
Don Latham, Melissa Gross, and Heidi Julien, PIs
COVID-related health information for homeless and opioid-use populations Spring 2021
NLM-NIH-funded project
Margaret Zimmerman, PI
Information Assistant and Writer Spring 2021
ALLY Accessibility Project, School of Information
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Exhibitions
Magic City Memories: A Timeline of LGBGTQ Birmingham told through the Alabama Forum May 2022
Invisible Histories Project, Co-Curator
Invited Presentations
Drawn This Gay: The History and Present of LGBTQIA+ Comics and Graphic Novels June 2023
Lake Bluff Public Library, Lake Bluff, IL
LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Literature June 2023
Palm Beach County Library, West Palm Beach, FL
Drawn That Gay: The History and Present of LGBTQIA+ Comics and Graphic Novels September 2022
DeweyCon, Palm Beach County Library System
First-Generation Faculty Panel November 2020
First-Generation Students Week, Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement and Center
for the Advancement of Teaching, Florida State University
Drawn That Gay: LGBTQIA+ Comics and Graphic Novels September 2020
DeweyCon 2.0, Palm Beach County Library System
iHP Talks, co-guest with Lolita Rowe (Emory University) April 2020
Invisible History Project
Queer Research Panel Discussion February 2020
Pride Student Union, Florida State University
Facilitation of "An Evening with Chella Man" November 2019
Club Downunder, Florida State University
Being Seen: Accessing LGBTQ Collections in Catalogs and Finding Aids March 2019
Co-facilitation with Lolita Rowe (Emory University)
Queer History South Conference, Birmingham, AL
Presentations
“We Could Do Better”: Librarian Engagement as a Measure of Queer Content in Libraries February 2022
Queer History South Conference, Dallas, TX
Intersectionality, Foster Woods Folk School Day of Action for Critical Race Theory (in partnership June 2021
with the Zinn Education Project and Black Lives Matter at School)
Teaching Information Literacy Through a Social Justice Lens (Accepted, April 2020) April 2021
Anti-Racism in Course Content (Panel) February 2021
Diversity and Inclusion in Research and Teaching Organization Symposium
Florida State University
Drawing Queerness: Evaluating Notable LGBTQ Graphic Novels for Teens Summer 2018
Reading Queerness: Silence and Erasure in BookTube Reviews of LGBTQ Literature for Young Adults Summer 2017
Out in LIS: A Consideration of the Coming Out Narrative as Information-as-Process (A Work in Progress) Fall 2016
Publications
Tenney, C., Surkan, K.J., Gerido, L., & Betts-Green, D. (2022). A Crisis of erasure: Transgender and gender-nonconforming populations navigating breast cancer health information. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, 5(4).
https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v5i4.37406
Betts-Green, D. (2020). “We could do better”: Librarian engagement in LGBTQ collection development in small and rural public
libraries in the Southern U.S. Public Library Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2020.1737493
Betts-Green, D. (2020). Re-Embodying information. [Review of the book Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital
Humanities Edited by E. Losh and J. Wernimont]. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Betts-Green, D. (2019). Eulogy for Gomer. In Darci McFarland (Ed.), Bible Belt Queers.
Betts-Green, D. (2018). [Review of the book Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor by V.
Eubanks]. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, 2(4).
Link: review.automating_inequality.ijidi.pdf
Ndumu, A., & Betts-Green, D. (2018). First impressions: A review of North American LIS program websites. The International
Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion, 2(3).
Link: first_impressions.ijidi.pdf
Betts-Green, D., & Latham, D. (2017). Drawing queerness: Evaluating notable LGBTQ graphic novels for teens. Journal of Research
on Libraries and Young Adults, 8.
Betts-Green, D. (2016). Health through collaboration: Feminist health history. [Review of the book More than medicine: A history
of the feminist women’s health movement by J. Nelson]. Feminist Collections, 37(4), 6-7.
Betts-Green, D. (2009). Visions of womanhood: Submission, purity, and femininity in modern evangelical movements. Unpublished
manuscript, Department of Women’s Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. [Available through FSU
libraries]
Professional Service
Reviewer, Open Information Science 2020
Reviewer, Advances in Librarianship 2020
Juror, Older Children’s Literature, Florida Book Awards 2018-2021
Member, Rainbow List Book Committee February 2016-January 2017
Member, YALSA Graphic Novel Selection Committee February 2016-June 2016
Volunteer/Service Experience
Pride Story Time, Leon County Public Library 2021
Community College Scholarship Application Reader, Point Foundation 2021, 2022
Faculty Review Committee, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2021
Program for Instructional Excellence, Florida State University
Faculty Judge for CCI Doctoral Poster Exhibit 2019
Outreach to SAIL LGBTQIA+ Club, Point Foundation Community Service Project 2016-2017
Graduate Student Representative, iSchool Education Committee 2015-2016
Graduate Student ex officio, Florida State University Faculty Senate Library Committee 2014-2015
Literacy Volunteers of Leon County, Adult Literacy Program Tutor 2014
Judge, Florida History Fair, Junior Group Project division 2014
Master’s student representative, iSchool Academic Affairs Committee Spring 2014
Honors and Awards
Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2022-2023
Point Foundation LGBTQ Scholar 2016-2019
iSchool Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 2018
iSchool Outstanding Graduate Lead Instructor Award 2017
Finalist, 3 Minute Thesis Competition, Florida State University 2017
iSchool Outstanding Graduate Lead Instructor Award 2016
Florida State Graduate Fellows’ Society Inductee 2016
Member of the 2016 Class of the Point Foundation LGBTQ Scholars Program 2016
Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society Inductee 2014
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Inductee 2014
Golden Key International Honor Society Inductee 2013
Eta Sigma Phi National Latin and Greek Honor Society Inductee 2010
Seminole Torchbearer Inductee 2010
Nominee for the Kingsbury Undergraduate Writing Award 2010
Recipient of a Bess Ward Honors Thesis Award from the Florida State University Honors Office 2009
Recipient of a Mentored Research and Creative Endeavors Award, Florida State University 2009
Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Office
Chosen as Star Student and featured on campus.fsu.edu, December 2009
Grants and Scholarships Awarded
Esther Maglathin Doctoral Research Scholarship, $1000 2018
Esther Maglathlin Doctoral Research Scholarship, $1000 2017
Point Foundation Scholar, varies per year 2016-2019
Lewis-Marxsen Fellowship Endowment, $1000 2015
Jacqueline D. Montgomery Scholarship in Information Studies, $1000 2014
Mentored Research and Creative Endeavors Award, Florida State University Undergraduate Summer 2009
Research and Creative Endeavors Office, $1000
Bess Ward Honors Thesis Award, Florida State University Honors Office, $425 Spring 2009
Research Interests
Information seeking behaviors of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth
LGBTQ young adult literature
Radical librarianship
Social justice librarianship
Information Literacy, particularly as taught through a social justice lens
Issues of intellectual freedom
Banned and challenged books
Comics and graphic novels
Rural public libraries in the U.S. South
Librarianship in the U.S. South
Diversity within Library and Information Studies and Library and Information Studies programs
Information behaviors of low income patrons, especially in rural library settings
Information needs of diverse populations