PUBLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- Singh, Jagtar, Paulette Kerr, and Esther Hamburger (2016). Eds. MILID Yearbook: Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism. UNESCO, Paris.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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].
- Kerr, P. (1996). Surfing the Net at UWI Library, Florida Libraries 39, (5):81-82.
- Kerr, P. (1993). Jamaican female lodging-house keepers in the nineteenth century. Jamaican Historical Review XVIII, 7-17.
PRESENTATIONS
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kerr, P. (2015, June). MIL Initiatives across the Caribbean. Global Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference. Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
- Kerr, P. (2014, Sept).Sharing of Global Research and Practices on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID). Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Kerr, P. (2013, Oct). Theory of Action and Information Literacy: Critical assessment towards effective practice. European Conference on Information Literacy, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Kerr, P. (2013, May). Media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue: Caribbean perspectives. MILID/UNITWIN Meeting, Cairo, Egypt.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kerr P. (2009, May). Information Literacy: Espoused theories vs. theories in use. Presented to the WILU Conference, Ontario, Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Kerr, P. (2002, Nov). Cliff Tyrell: Pioneer Jamaican Cartoonist. Paper presented at the Staff/Graduate Seminar, Department of History, and UWI Mona. 39p.
- 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.