Heidi Jacobs is on leave until 1 January 2024.
At Leddy Library, I work with students, faculty, and members of the community to help them share their research widely and creatively. In my teaching, research, and librarianship, I am not only interested in getting information to the people who need it, I am also concerned with issues of access and preservation of information, particularly historical and literary historical information in a wide range of formats and contexts. My most recent projects include
Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred “Boomer” Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (1932-1939),
The North Was Our Canaan: Exploring Sandwich Town's Underground Railroad History, and
We Were Here: Documenting Windsor's McDougall Street Corridor.
It's an exciting time to be a librarian and to work with members of the university and broader communities. You can follow me on Twitter at LitAtLeddy.
Books
Novels:
Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear (NeWest Press, 2019) https://newestpress.com/books/molly-of-the-mall-literary-lass-and-purveyor-of-fine-footwear
Nonfiction:
100 Miles of Baseball: Fifty Games, One Summer (Biblioasis, 2021) http://biblioasis.com/shop/new-release/100-miles-of-baseball-fifty-games-one-summer/
1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars' Barrier-Breaking Year (Biblioasis, 2023)
Edited Books
Harris, S. M., Jacobs, H. L.M , & Putzi, J. (Eds.). (2000). American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale.
Edited Journals
Journal of Canadian Baseball, Co-editor (2021-)
External Grants as PI/ Co-PI with research partners
"Across the River to Freedom: Early Black History in Sandwich, Ontario" (Gordie Howe Bridge Community Investment Grant, 2021-2022)
"Telling the Stories of Race and Sport in Canada." (SSHRC, 2017-2019)
"Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred Boomer Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars" (Ontario Trillium Foundation, 2016-2017)
Book Chapters
Jacobs, Heidi LM, "Invisible in Plain View: Libraries, Archives and Memory and the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars." In Kandiuk, Mary, Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation, Library Juice Press, Fall 2019
Jacobs, Heidi LM, "Looking for Boomer: History, Librarianship and the Journeys Between" In Schroeder, Robert,
Deitering, Anne-Marie, Stoddart, Richard, Exploring Selves, Culture, and Authoethnography, Association of College
and Research Libraries, 2017.
Jacobs, Heidi LM, "Falling out of Praxis: Reflection as a Pedagogical Habit of Mind," Critical Library Pedagogy
Handbook, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016, Editor(s) - McElroy, Kelly; Pagowsky, Nicole.
Jacobs, Heidi LM, "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted: Or, On Becoming a Detroit Tigers Fan," Sunday With the
Detroit Tigers, Black Moss Press, 2015.
Jacobs, Heidi LM and Schroeder, Robert. "Interview." Critical Journeys: How 12 Librarians Came to Embrace Critical Practices, Library Juice Press (2014).
Jacobs, Heidi LM (2013) "Research Questions and the Research Question: What Are We Teaching When We Teach
Research?" In Beth Bloom and Marta Deyrup (eds) Successful Strategies for Teaching Undergraduate Student Research, Rowman and Littlefield.
Jacobs, Heidi LM (2009) 'The mere habit of learning to love is the thing': Notes on Being a Student of Bruce and Nora
Stovel." Jane Austen Sings the Blues, Ed. Nora Foster Stovel. University of Alberta Press.
Jacobs, H.L.M, Beckstead, L, Brooke, K et al. (2000). "The Thursday Night Writing Group: Crossing Institutional Lines." By Any Other Name: Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom., Lawrence Earlbaum. Eds Nels Highberg and Beverly Moss.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Jacobs, Dale; Jacobs Heidi LM, Comics and Public History: The True Story of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, 4(1), 101-121, 2020.
Jacobs, Heidi LM and Nelson, Robert (2017). "History, Play, and the Public: Wikipedia in the University Classroom," in History Teacher, 50 (4)
Jacobs, Heidi LM; Murgu, Cal, "Questioning the Past and Possible Futures: Digital Historiography and Critical Librarianship," Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 2017.
Elmborg, James; Jacobs, Heidi LM; McElroy, Kelly; and Nelson, Robert L.. (2015). Making a Third Space for Student Voices in Two Academic Libraries.
Reference & User Services Quarterly, 55 (2), 144-155.
http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/leddylibrarypub/36
Jacobs, Heidi. (2014). Pedagogies of Possibility Within the Disciplines: Critical Information Literacy and Literatures in English.
Communications in Information Literacy, 8 (2).
http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/lripub/24
Jacobs, H. L. M (2002). Maria Susanna Cummins’s London Letters: April 1860.
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 19(2), 241-254. Retrieved from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25679431
Jacobs, H. L.M (2000). “Well, seriously, Flora, what can we women do?” Sentimentalism, suffrage and reform in Lillie Devereux Blake’s Fettered for Life. Nineteenth-Century Prose, 27(2), 62-78.
Awards
Stephen Leacock Award for Humour Writing (2020) for Molly of the Mall: Literary Lass and Purveyor of Fine Footwear (2019)
Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation (Ontario Heritage Trust) With Miriam Wright, Dave Johnston, and the Chatham Sports Hall of Fame (2018) for "Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred 'Boomer' Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars."
Association of College and Research Libraries Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award (2010) for “Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Praxis.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, no. 3 (May 2008): 256–62.
Presentations
Invited Presentations
Keynote: "Finding my voice in the stacks: Or, how wandering through libraries changed my life." September 2021. Stronger Together Conference: the Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, Parkland Regional Library System, and The Alberta Library
Keynote: "Toward a Reflective Information Literacy Collaboration" at California Conference on Library Instruction. With Dale Jacobs. May 2011, Santa Cruz, CA
Closing Plenary: "Looking Outward, Looking Within: Reflections on Information Literacy Praxis" at Workshop on Instruction in Library Use (WILU). With Selinda Berg. May 2009, Montreal, QC
Selected Presentations
"Jack Calder: Documentarian of the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars," Canadian Baseball History Conference, Nov 2018, London, ON
"Toward a Critical Optimism: Enacting Access, Diversity, Inclusion, and Democracy in Difficult Times," Libraries in the Digital Age, June 2018, Zadar, Croatia
"Critical Information Literacy and Literary History: Teaching the Conflicts in the Digital Age," at WILU, May 2013 Fredricton, NB
"What if Maria Susanna Cummins had Twitter?: Information Literacy, Literary History, Social Media and the Classroom," Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, July 2011, Washington, DC
Engaging Theory for Reflective Information Literacy Practices," Ontario Library Association SuperConference February 2010, Toronto, ON
“Wow, we can do that?”: Using Digital Archives for Information Literacy Initiatives in History Classes" Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, July 2007, Minneapolis, MN
"When Librarians and Professors Talk: Cross-campus Dialogues about Teaching and Learning." The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. With Dale Jacobs. June 2007, Edmonton, AB
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