Dorinne Banks, with shoulder-length blonde hair, is smiling in a black top and floral-patterned blazer, posed effortlessly before a plain gray background.

Dorinne Banks

Online Librarian

Administrative Faculty

Chicago, Online, Vancouver

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
– Albert Einstein

dbanks@adler.edu

OVERVIEW

Dorinne (pronounced: Doreen) Banks is an academic librarian with over 20 years of experience supporting the diverse research needs of students at all learning levels. Her career began as an elementary school teacher and morphed into a second career in higher education after earning a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree.

She came to Adler University in 2021 in her current role as online librarian, providing virtual research instruction, library workshops, and one-on-one personal assistance to Adler students in online and hybrid programs. Knowing that graduate students lead stressful lives — balancing family life, a career, and a host of other obligations in addition to their coursework— Dorinne brings empathic qualities to her work with students by sharing tips and strategies for making the research process less stressful.

Dorinne brings an equity-focused approach to course materials used at Adler University. Her research passion and professional service contributions center around the use of open educational resources (OER) as an affordable alternative to traditional college course textbooks. She collaboratively works with Adler’s instructional design team (EDI) and individual faculty members who are interested in switching to OER course materials.

Most recently, Dorinne procured a $30,000 OER grant award from the State of Illinois to fund the Adler Library’s OER Course Transformation Program. As project manager for the two-year grant, she led the creation of a graduate-level open textbook written by Adler faculty member, Peter Ji, Ph.D.

MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS

  • Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2011-Present.
  • American Library Association (ALA) 2009-Present.

PUBLICATIONS + PRESENTATIONS

Publications

Adapting open educational course materials in undergraduate general psychology: A faculty-librarian-student partnership in Hoffman, K. & Clifton, A. eds.

2020 Open Pedagogy: Varied Definitions, Multiple Approaches. CC-BY 4.0.
Author(s): Schell, D. & Banks, D.
Publication Link: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/openpedagogyapproaches/

Think before you flip: Using Fink’s taxonomy of significant learning to design library instruction.

2019 College & Research Library News 80(3): 169-170.
Author(s): Banks, D. & Henderson, T.
Publication Link: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.80.3.169 https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/w6634420b

Something old, something new: My first ALA annual experience.

2016 EBSS Newsletter. (31): 1, p.6
Author(s): Banks, D.

Research related to the International Baccalaureate: an annotated bibliography of 2014 studies.

2015 Bethesda, MD: International Baccalaureate Organization.
Author(s): Engel, L., Banks, D., Patterson, J. & Stehle, S.
Publication Link: http://www.ibo.org/globalassets/publications/ib-research/annotated-bibliography-2014-en.pdf

Presentations

Adapting Open Educational Course Materials in Undergraduate General Psychology: A Faculty-Librarian-Student Partnership.

2021 Milne Library Webinar.
Author(s): Schell, D. & Banks, D.

From Larva to Caterpillar: Strategies for Starting a Library-Led OER Initiative.

2019 Poster Presentation at the 2019 OpenEd Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Author(s): Banks, D., Rackley, N., & Fox, H.

An Agile Approach to Promoting Open Educational Resources.

2019 Poster Presentation at the Association of College & Research Libraries
2019 Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Author(s): Banks, D., Leventhal, J., & Stoddard, M.

Rules of engagement: A Revolutionary Approach to Members’ Activity and Experiences in State Library Associations.

2018 Poster Presentation at the Virginia Library Association
2018 Conference, Williamsburg, VA.
Author(s): Banks, D., Nickel, L., & Flanagan, P.
Publication Link: https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/0r9674319

Textbook Affordability.

2018 Panelist at the American Library Association 2018 Annual Meeting.
New Orleans, LA.
Author(s): Banks, D.

Collecting Textbooks for College Affordability.

2018 Presentation at the WRLC Annual Meeting 2018,
Catholic University, Washington, DC.
Author(s): Banks, D. & Lemmons, D.
Publication Link: https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/0g354f79h

Top Textbooks at GW Libraries: Helping Students Access Expensive Course Materials.

2017 Presentation at Scholarly Communications Symposium at
GW Libraries, Washington, DC.
Author(s): Banks, D. & Henderson, T.
Publication Link: https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/files/n009w234m

The flipped library classroom: Using digital objects in information literacy instruction.

2017 Presentation at 2017 Virginia Library Association Conference, Norfolk, VA.
Author(s): Banks, D. & Henderson, T.
Publication Link: https://goo.gl/eUMdQJ

Panel Member. EBSS Online Learning Research Committee Discussion Forum.

2017 American Library Association 2017 Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
Author(s): Banks, D.

International students in the library classroom: What you need to know.

2017 Presentation at the WRLC Annual Meeting 2017,
Catholic University, Washington, DC.
Author(s): Brown, A. & Banks, D.

Keeping up with new research.

2017 Presentation at the Educational Symposium for
Research and Innovations (ESRI) Conference 2017,
George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Author(s): Banks, D.

LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT

  • Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).
    • OER Committee, Co-chair 2023-24, Member 2022-2025.
  • Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC).
    • Textbook Affordability Working Group, Chair, 2018-2021.
  • Peer Reviewer, AERA Teacher-as-Researcher SIG, Conference Proposals, 2016-2017.
  • ALA/ACRL-EBSS.
    • EBSS Scholarly Communications Committee Member, 2018-2020.
    • EBSS Scholarly Communication Committee Chair, 2019-2020.
    • EBSS Education Committee Co-chair, 2016-2018.
  • Virginia Library Association-College and Research Libraries Chapter (VLACRL).
    • Past Chair, VLACRL, 2019-2020.
    • Chair, VLACRL Conference-Within-a-Conference, 2018-2019.
    • Chair, VLACRL, 2017-2018.
    • Co-Chair, VLACRL, 2016-201.
    • Secretary/Treasurer, VLACRL, 2015-2016
    • Peer-Reviewer, Conference-Within-a-Conference, 2016-2019
    • Peer Reviewer, Collaborative Librarianship (journal) 2013