Rate My Professor Eric Kidwell

Kidwell emphasizes inclusive, student-centered library services, developing LibGuides on topics like COVID-19 and Ukraine, and programming including Constitution Day and Martin Luther King Day observances, Salon literary readings, and the 'Good Trouble' mini-conference. A Beta Phi Mu member, he received the Alabama Library Association Intellectual Freedom Award (2007), Alabama chapter Association of College & Research Libraries Sue O. Medina Significant Contribution Award (2015), and ATIXA Distinguished Service Award (2022). He serves on the ATIXA Advisory Board and Publications Committee, and has been active in the American Library Association and Alabama Library Association. Key publications include 'Program Connects First-Year Students and Their Families to the College Community' (E-Source for College Transitions, 2008, co-authored with M. Terry Conkle and Maureen K. Murphy), 'Koalas, LibGuides and Chert, Oh My!: Using LibGuides as an Alternative Student Research Assignment' (2013), and 'Using Chemistry to Understand Nature from the Waters of the Blue Lagoon to the Composition of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug' (2020, co-authored). Kidwell has presented extensively at ATIXA conferences on Title IX in faith-based institutions, Alabama Library Association events on library administration, and others on first-year experiences. He directed the Liberal Arts Symposium for most of its years and co-led Huntingdon Plan international travel-study programs. He was interviewed by The Chronicle of Higher Education for 'The Library of the Future' (2022).