Department
Noel Memorial Library
Start Year at LSUS
2020
Terminal Degree/Yr
MLIS/2013
Office Location
NL 128
(318) 797-5070
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Professional Memberships

American Library Association. (2017 - Present).

Louisiana Library Association. (2011 - Present).

Beta Phi Mu. (2014).

Society of American Archivists LSU Student Chapter, Vice President. (2011 - 2012).

Awards and Honors

Louisiana Library Association Margaret T. Lane. (2019).

Nominated for: Louisiana Tech University Senate’s Virgil Orr Junior Faculty Award. (2017).

Government Publishing Office Federal Depository Regional Library of the Year. (2015).

Degrees

Research Interests

User Experience in Library Services; Student Engagement with Library Services

Selected Publications

McCoy, A. (August 2024). [Review of the book Just Do This One Thing For Me, by Laura Zimmermann]. Catholic Library World. 95.1 (2024)

McCoy, A. (August 2024. ) [Review of the book Communities of Practice, by Michelle Reale]. Catholic Library World 95.1 (2024)

Hawkes, J., McCoy, A. & Wilson, K. (2025.) Spellbound in the stacks: A magical STEAM camp at an academic library.  In C. Abdeljawad & D. Theiss (Eds.)The Small to Mid-Size Academic Library: Collaborations and Outreach (pp. 51-58). ACRL.

Mazur, S., McCoy, A., Hawkes, J., Slattery, K., & Wilson, K. (2022, September 1). Understanding plagiarism. Understanding Plagiarism. Retrieved February 23, 2023, from https://louis.pressbooks.pub/understandingplagiarism/

Bosman, R., Cole-Bennett, C., DeSoto, A., and Laub-Carroll, A. (2020) "The collaborative federal depository program: managing federal depository library program collections in the southeast," Collaborative Librarianship, 12(2), Article 3. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol12/iss2/3

DeSoto, Abigail D. (2015) "#Let's Get Social: How Libraries and the Federal Government Use Social Media." Louisiana Libraries 78.1 (2015): 12-17.