Dr. Maria Cahill

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University
• Graduate Assistant, University of Tennessee
• Instructor, East Tennessee State University
• School Library Media Specialist, Beaufort County School District, SC

Teaching

• Master’s level courses: LS 5003 Collection Development, TWU; LS 5333 School Library Media Center, TWU; LS 5343 Youth Programs, TWU, LS 5443 Librarians as Instructional Partners, TWU; Emergent Literacy, University of Tennessee; Psychology of Reading, East Tennessee State University
• Undergraduate level courses: Teaching Reading in Elementary School, East Tennessee State University; Current Issues in Literacy Education, East Tennessee State University

Scholarship

Select recent publications:

• Meeks, M. V., & Cahill, M. (in press). Dream big: Empowering middle school students. Library Media Connection.
• Cahill, M., & Richey, J. (in press). Show me the evidence: Integrating evidence based practice into school library education. School Libraries Worldwide.
• Moreillon, J., Cahill, M., & McKee, R. (in press). State library conferences as professional development venues: Unbalanced support for the AASL-defined roles of the school librarian. School Library Research.
• Cahill, M. (2012). The literacy beliefs of child care professionals: Prerequisite knowledge for teacher librarian literacy leaders. School Libraries Worldwide, 18(1), 34-47.
• Cahill, M., Moreillon, J., & McKee, R. (2011). The library conference, an insufficient knowledge builder: How the roles of the school librarian are addressed through state-level conference offerings. In D. V. Loertscher & B. Wools (Eds.), Knowledge building in the learning commons: Moving from research to practice to close the achievement gap. (303-308). Conference Proceedings of the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat #17, Ossseo, MN. Spring, TX: LMC Source.
• Cahill, M., & Moreillon, J., (2011, May). Growing in knowledge: Rooted in community. School Library Monthly, 27(8), 24-26.
• Moreillon, J., & Cahill, M. (2011, March). Knowing her story. School Library Monthly, 27(6), 27-29.

Select recent presentations:

• When libraries and classes collide: Building relevant instructional partnerships, with Mary Virginia Meeks and Melisa O’Rear. Concurrent session. Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston, TX, April 2012.
• Learning from Elmo, Blue, and Dora: Applying the science of children’s educational television, with Jennifer Bigheart. Concurrent session. Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston, TX, April 2012.
• Facilitating Literacy Development in the Early Childhood Classroom: Animated Picture Books as Incidental Learning Tools, with Anne McGill-Franzen and Dawn Peterson. Poster Session. International Reading Association 57^th Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, April-May 2012.
• School Librarian Professional Development, with Judi Moreillon and Becky McKee. School Librarian SIG Session. Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, January 2012.

Grant award:

• Co-Principal Investigator of the grant project, Literacy Matters: Educating Librarians to Serve Families with Young Children. The Literacy Matters project is funded by a $469,999 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), with matching partnership of $273,037 by the Texas Library Association (TLA) and the Dallas Public Library.