Alison Edwards
Name Pronunciation
A - luh - suhn Ed - wurdzPronouns
She / HerTo acknowledge that assumptions about someone’s gender identity could be incorrect, many organizations, including NC State, have begun to encourage community members to include a brief statement of their gender pronouns as they introduce themselves within a group.
Librarian for Digital Teaching & Learning
Department:
Learning Spaces & ServicesPhone: (919) 515-2337
Email: aledwar5@ncsu.edu
Project SAFE Ally
Mental Health First AidMy areas of expertise
- Library Instruction for First Year Writing and Speaking Courses
- Library Instruction Moodle Modules
- LinkedIn Learning
My research guides
- Sustainability Research Guide (edited on January 8, 2025)
I can help with
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Library Instruction Programs
Invite a librarian to your class, first-year writing instruction, library scavenger hunt
Find Videos and Tutorials
Improve student research skills, basic research concepts, advanced search
Open Education
Use Open Educational Resources in your class, adopt, adapt, or create OERs
Cite Sources
Cite print and online sources, Citation Builder
Find Articles
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Find a Book
Search for books, request a book, navigate the bookstacks
Evaluate Sources
Determine the rigor and quality of research materials.
Projects I've worked on
Shout-outs From My Colleagues
Shout-outs are kind words from Libraries staff to other Libraries staff for going out of their way to be extra awesome at their job.
Working with Alison is sometimes just a matter of sitting back and staring in awe at how much she both accomplishes and supports. This year alone she’s organized the TA toolkit, Access Fest, the LSS instruction program group and the Instruction Programs meetup. She takes new library workers from different departments to lunch and can always be counted on to grab an open shift at Ask Us. I think Alison is one of the secret pieces that keep the Libraries running and I wanted to make sure she got applauded for all she does.
— Sojourna Cunningham
Alison, Aasta, and Alexis are a team more reliable and resourceful than AAA. Without Alison's superior planning skills and creative ideas, the AccessFest 2025 collaboration may not have even happened. Alison's skills at fostering partnerships with other campus stakeholders like DELTA has helped the Libraries to play an important role in supporting accessibility campus-wide. On the day of the event, Aasta and Alexis were so welcoming and helpful to all the faculty and staff looking for accessibility help with their instructional materials. Aasta has been working hard to advocate for accessible instruction since she started with the Libraries and it was so nice to have her wonderful attitude and expertise at the event. Alexis is also proving herself to be a great addition to the team (and she is fast enough to keep up Ms. Wuf!) Thanks LSS for being accessibility advocates in the libraries and beyond!
— Beth Ashmore
Thank you to Justin, Aryn, and Alison for doing such a wonderful job planning and presenting the NC State Accessibility Collaborative's first field trip to the Makerspace. We had such a great visit at the Makerspace and learned so much about how to make accessible learning materials. I think everyone who attended will not only be a Makerspace user going forward but will also recommend the Makerspace to colleagues and students. The event was also a great reminder of how important accessibility is to everyone in the libraries and how each of us is doing our part to make the libraries and the university more accessible. Thanks so much for all your hard work and enthusiasm! -Beth
— Beth Ashmore
Sparked by a conversation with a colleague in DELTA, Alison brought an important idea to the Libraries: let's do more to support graduate student teaching assistants. Over the summer 2023 she did exceptional work to bring together colleagues from throughout the Libraries, DELTA, and the Graduate School to create the TA Toolkit, a suite of workshops to help graduate students as they develop skills and confidence with their teaching. She also led the effort to plan the TA Toolkit Open House where we welcomed more than 70 new graduate students with an opportunity to learn about cross-campus support for them as teachers. The event was a great success! Throughout this project, Alison demonstrated impressive strengths in leadership, creativity, collaboration, and diplomacy as she helped the cross-organizational planning team come to a shared vision and create something special for this graduate student population. There are already ideas floating around about ways to extend on the "Toolkit" model as well as evidence that the relationships that developed in the project team will lead to other fruitful collaborations between the Libraries, DELTA, and the Graduate School. Thank you, Alison!
— Kim Duckett
Alison, along with Kerri Brown Parker from DELTA, recently explored a new feature of Academic Video Online, one of the Libraries' largest streaming film collections. AVON partnered with PlayPosit, a tool that helps faculty create interactive moments during a film such as discussion prompts, polls, and open-ended questions. Alison & Kerri met with the AVON team to discuss implementing the new feature and reached out to campus groups so instrutors can learn strategies to integrate AVON and PlayPosit in their courses. I really appreciate Alison's efforts to not only highlight our collections to faculty, but also think creatively about how they can enrich learning experiences for students.
— Emily Cox