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
Master of Library and Information Science
Louisiana State University
Bachelor of Business Administration
University of Louisiana at Monroe
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.