Paulette A Kerr
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PUBLICATIONS
  1. Sutherland, T., Sturtz, L., and Kerr, P. (2022).  Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives in John Aarons, Jeanette Bastian and Stanley Griffin (Eds.), Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory. Routledge.
  2. Kerr, P., La Barre, K., and Lilley, S. (2021). Diversity in local and comparative contexts: grounding change in academic libraries through dialogue. International Insights. C&RL News (Nov).
  3. Kerr, P. & Lewis, J. (2020).  The Framework and the Context: Refocusing Information Literacy at a Caribbean University.  In H. Julien, M. Gross and D. Latham (Eds.). The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation. (149-161). Rowman & Littlefield. (Received UWI Mona Principal’s Research Award, 2021).
  4. Salmon, F., Kerr-Campbell, M., and Kerr, P. (2016). Managing a digital archiving project at the University of the West Indies Library: a case study. Libellarium, IX, (2) 95-107.
  5. Singh, Jagtar, Paulette Kerr, and Esther Hamburger (2016). Eds. MILID Yearbook: Media   and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism. UNESCO, Paris.
  6. Culver, Sherri and Paulette Kerr (2014). Eds. MILID Yearbook: Global Citizenship in a Digital World. NORDICOM/ International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  7.  Carroll, M., Kerr, P, Musa, A. & Afzal, W. (2013). Commonwealth of uncertainty: How British and American professional models of library practice have shaped LIS education in selected former British Colonies and Dominions. IFLA Journal 39 (2) 121 – 133.
  8.  Kerr, P. (2012). Explicit goals, implicit outcomes: Information literacy education in developing university graduate attributes. UWI Quality Education Forum.18 (Jan):71-88. (Received UWI Mona Principal’s Research Award)
  9. Kerr, P. (2014).  Strategic promotion and expansion of information literacy education: Professional development and outreach programmes. In Sherri Culver and Paulette Kerr (Eds.) MILID 2014 Yearbook: Global Citizenship in a Digital World. (pp.378-387). NORDICOM/ International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  10. Kerr, P. (2013). Theory of action and information literacy: Critical assessment towards effective practice. In Serap Kurbanoğlu, Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi, Ralph Catts, Sonja Špiranec (Eds.) CCIS. Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information
  11. Kerr, Paulette, Myrtle Harris, and Judith Rao. (2011). Eds.  School Libraries: Empowering the 21st Century Learner. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference & 15th International Forum on Research in School Libraries. UWI, Mona. Literacy Research and Practice      (pp. 429–435). Springer International.
  12. Kerr, P. (2011). Victims or Strategists? Nineteenth century female lodging-house keepers in Jamaica. In Verene Shepherd (Ed.) Engendering Caribbean History: Cross Cultural Perspectives (pp.467-477).Kingston: Ian Randle (republication of previous book chapter).
  13. Kerr, P. & Varlejs, J. (2011).  A new model for evaluating the online tutorial: Does your tutorial reflect your mission. In B. Seitz (Ed.), Blazing Trails: On the path to information literacy (pp. 3–12),. LOEX Press.
  14. Kerr, P. (2009). Espoused theories and theories in-use of information literacy: A model for reflection and evaluation. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 46, 1-7.
  15. Kerr, P. (1995). Victims or Strategists? Nineteenth century female lodging-house Keepers in Jamaica. In B. Bailey, B. Brereton and V. Shepherd (Eds.) Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspectives (pp. 197–212). London: James Curry, Kingston: Ian Randle. [Cited in more than 30 publications].
  16. Kerr, P. (1996). Surfing the Net at UWI Library, Florida Libraries 39, (5):81-82.     
  17. Kerr, P. (1993). Jamaican female lodging-house keepers in the nineteenth century.  Jamaican Historical Review XVIII, 7-17.

PRESENTATIONS
  1. Kerr, P. (2023, Oct.). Cultivating a Culture of Media and Information Literacy for All: Joint UNESCO MILID University Network and MIL Alliance Panel Discussion. 5th International E- Seminar on Contemporary Issues in Media and Information Literacy, in celebration of Global MIL Week 2023. 
  2. Kerr, P. (2022, Oct.). Go back and Get it: Centering local, national and cultural histories in international LIS education. ALISE Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
  3. Kerr, P. (2022, May). Integrating Media and Information Literacy in Higher Education Curricula: Realities, Challenges and Prospects: Voices And Reflections From The Caribbean. Virtual Presentation .UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022, Barcelona, 18-20 May 2022.
  4. Kerr, P. (2020, Sept.). COVID 19: The Caribbean and Latin American Information Professionals and Academic Library Directors Speak (Webinar Panel). Caribbean and Latin American Studies Collections at UC Berkeley, California.
  5. Kerr, P. (2020, Sept.). Multiple Ways of Knowing: Global Perspectives on Academic Libraries re-imagining Systems of Knowledge. (Respondent on Panel). Webinar in the Chai Wai Series: Race, Social Justice and Ways of Knowing. International and Area Studies Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. 
  6. Kerr, P. & Stewart, P. (2019, Sept.).  (Re) Shaping and Expanding LIS Education in the Caribbean: Strategic and Transformative Responses of DLIS, The University of the West Indies, Mona.  ALISE Annual Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
  7. Kerr, P. (2018, Oct). Analog to Digital – A SMART Campaign for Media and Information Literate Policy Planning: An Examination of the Jamaica Policy Planning Framework.MIL to build smart, secure, resilient, tolerant, and socially inclusive and sustainable development cities. UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Conference, Kaunas, Lithuania.
  8. Kerr, P. (2017, Oct). Information Sharing on the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy (GAPMIL) and Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Networks: Clarifying Purpose, Determining Priorities, Exploring Future Developments, Assessing Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Global Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference, Kingston Jamaica.
  9. Kerr, P. & Lewis, J. (2017, Sept). Research Data Management among Researchers at the University of the West Indies, Mona. European Conference on Information Literacy ECIL, Saint Malo, France.
  10. Kerr, P. (2016, July). Trends and Issues in Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue: Updates and Next steps for UNESCO in Enabling Media and Information Literacy in the Caribbean. IASL, Latin and the Caribbean Regional Conference, Kingston, Jamaica.
  11. Kerr, P., and Salmon, F. (2016, June).  Rich Collections, Scarce Resources: Conundrum of Digital Curation in the Caribbean. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) Conference. University of Zadar, Croatia.
  12. Kerr, P. (2015, June). MIL Initiatives across the Caribbean. Global Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. 
  13. Kerr, P. (2014, Sept).Sharing of Global Research and Practices on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID). Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
  14. Kerr, P. (2013, Oct).  Theory of Action and Information Literacy: Critical assessment towards effective practice. European Conference on Information Literacy, Istanbul, Turkey.
  15. Kerr, P. (2013, May). Media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue: Caribbean perspectives. MILID/UNITWIN Meeting, Cairo, Egypt.
  16. Carroll, M, Kerr, P. Musa, A. & Afzal, W. (2012, Aug.). Commonwealth of Uncertainty: How British and American Professional Models of Library Practice have shaped LIS Education in selected former British Colonies and Dominions. IFLA Annual Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  17. Kerr, P. (2012, Jan) Strategic Repositioning: Crossing disciplinary, institutional and traditional Boundaries in LIS Education in the Caribbean. Association of Library and Information Science, ALISE Annual Conference, Dallas Texas.
  18. Kerr, P. (2009, August). Espoused Theories and Theories-in-Use of Information Literacy: Reflecting for effective practice. Paper presented to the Research Forum of the Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL), Padua, Italy.
  19. Kerr P. (2009, May). Information Literacy: Espoused theories vs. theories in use. Presented to the WILU Conference, Ontario, Canada.
  20. Kerr, P. (2003). IL Alliances: University and high school libraries working together for lifelong learning. Paper Presented at the Annual Conference of the International association of School Librarianship, IASL, Durban, South Africa.
  21. Kerr, P. (2003, Dec.). Wholly and profane: the 19th century Jamaican lodging house as urban community centre. Paper presented at the Text and Testimony Collective Conference. City Life in Caribbean History: Celebrating Bridgetown. UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados. December 2003.16p.
  22. George, V. & P. Kerr (2002, June). Parties for Partnership: Getting faculty on board an IL Initiative. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean, University and Institutional Libraries, ACURIL, Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
  23. Kerr, P. (2002, Nov). Cliff Tyrell: Pioneer Jamaican Cartoonist. Paper presented at the Staff/Graduate Seminar, Department of History, and UWI Mona. 39p.
  24. Kerr, P. (2000). Bibliographic Instruction, Information Literacy: Two sides of the same coin of User Education? Paper Presented at the Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA) 2000 Seminar, Christchurch, New Zealand.12p.
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