Carl Hess
University of Memphis Undergraduate Success Librarian
Memphis, TN
Carl Hess (he/him) is the Undergraduate Success Librarian (Clinical Assistant Professor) at the University of Memphis. He holds a Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of Missouri. Carl works to improve library outreach and services for undergraduate students with an emphasis on underserved student populations such as First Generation Students. His research interests include collaboration between academic libraries and other campus units, outreach programs, Open Educational Resources (OER), and information literacy instruction. Carl recently published an article on a collaborative event for first-year writing and information literacy in The Journal of Creative Library Practice. He has presented at LOEX, the American Library Association Annual Conference, the National Conference on Students in Transition, Open Texas, and the Tennessee Library Association Annual Conference.