Texas Tech University

Donell Callender, MLS

Librarian
Research, Instruction & Outreach

Email: donell.callender@ttu.edu

Phone: (806) 834-2944

Room Number: 132 D
ORCID: 0000-0002-5932-999X
Scopus: 56002246400

Callender, Donell - TTU Libraries

Bio

Donell Callender received her master's in library science from University of North Texas in 2002. She has been with the TTU Libraries since 1997 as staff and became faculty in 2002. Currently she is the Head of the Research, Instruction & Outreach department in the library. This department has 13 faculty that provide research instruction, collection development and outreach services for the entire campus and the Lubbock community. She teaches Essentials for Scholarly Research as well as the first year seminar class, Raider Ready, each fall. Her research interests include instruction assessment, active learning, and student retention. She is active within TTU faculty governance and is on several faculty committees. She is also active nationally with ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) and TLA (Texas Library Association).

Selected Publications & Presentations

Selected Publications


Selected Presentations


  • Syma, C. Heinz, L. Callender, D. (2017). Collegial Support Triangle. Presented at Texas Women in Higher Education 2017. San Marcos, Texas.
  • Callender, D., Heinz, L. Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning, Austin, TX (2016)  Turning the Table: Engaging Students Through Flipped Instruction http://www.lillyconferences-tx.com/#!event-details/c16um  
  • Heinz, L., Callender, D. Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Portland, OR (2015) Leading Them to Water and Making Them Drink: Flipping Instruction. http://www.ala.org/acrl/acrl/conferences/acrl2015
  • Callender, D. Texas Library Association Annual Conference (2013)—Building a Promising Future: Freshman Success Initiatives-http://www.txla.org/sites/tla/files/TLJ/TLJ88-4_ConfProgram.pdf (p. 41)
  • Callender, D. Texas Library Association District 9 Annual Meeting (2013)—Discussion panelist, Building Leadership Skills and Practicing Diversity in the Library Community. As a Texas Accelerated Library Leadership graduate, was asked to discuss with the audience how to use leadership, regardless of job description, to foster, create, and grow diversity in their own library environment. (invited)
  • Callender, D., Hawkins, A.R. College English Association Conference (2012) Presentation-Borders-working with English faculty to develop a good research base for students (embedded librarianship).
  • Paschel, A., Syma, C., Callender D. Association of College & Research Libraries (2011) IMPS: Innovative Mobile Personalized Services Poster Presentation—this poster presentation drew international attention-- Library Connect (Elsevier) https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/smartlibrary-innovations-mobility-and-personalized-services   
  • Callender, D. Texas Library Association—Conference College & University Libraries Division (2011) Discussion panelist for QEP issues in Universitieshttp://txla.org/sites/tla/files/pdf/2011_academic_programming.pdf (p. 9) (invited)