This curriculum vitae outlines the education and experience of Alexander Watkins, who is currently an Assistant Professor and Art & Architecture Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder. It details his graduate degrees in Library and Information Science and History of Art & Design from Pratt Institute, as well as publications, presentations, teaching experience, and service to his institution and professional organizations.

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ALEXANDER WATKINS | CURRICULUM VITAE | JUNE 2014
MSLIS Library and Information Science
Pratt Institute, 2012
MS History of Art & Design
Pratt Institute, 2012
Thesis: Free Will under Fire: Jesuit Baroque Church Decoration as Theological Argument
BA Majors in History of Art and Anthropology
University of California Berkeley, 2007
University Libraries, University of Colorado Boulder
Arts & Humanities Department
Assistant Professor / Art & Architecture Librarian, 2012-
Articles
 Watkins, Alexander. “Zotero for Personal Image Management,” Art Documentation 32, no. 2 (Fall 2013),
301-313. (refereed)
 Evans, Sian, Hilary Thompson, and Alexander Watkins. “Discovering Open Access Art History: A
Comparative Study of the Indexing of Open Access Art Journals.” Serials Librarian 61, no. 2 (Fall 2011),
168-188.
 Manzella, Christina, and Alexander Watkins. “Performance Anxiety: Performance Art in Twenty-First
Century Catalogs and Archives.” Art Documentation 30, no. 1 (Spring 2011), 28-32. (refereed)
Book Chapters
 Kuglitsch, Rebecca, and Alexander Watkins. “Creating connective Library Spaces: A librarian-student
collaboration model.” Accepted for The 21st
Century Library, edited by Bradford Eden. Washington, DC:
Scarecrow Press. (in progress)

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Internal Publications
 Lindquist, Thea, Holley Long, Alexander Watkins, et. al. DH + CU: Future Directions for Digital Humanities at
CU Boulder. Digital Humanities Task Force Report, 46 pp.
Reviews
 Watkins, Alexander. Review of “Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the
Cultural Capital of the Rockies.” ARLIS/NA reviews. November, 2012.
International
 Lindquist, Thea, Holley Long, and Alexander Watkins. “Multi-methodology in Library Research: Using
mixed methods to examine changing researcher needs in the digital humanities.” Quantitative and
Qualitative Methods in Libraries, Istanbul, Turkey. May, 2014.
 Rebecca Kuglitsch, Natalia Tingle and Alexander Watkins. “Using Cloud Services to Facilitate Research
Consultations: A study of student experiences and preferences.” Poster presentation, Special Libraries
Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada. June, 2014.
National
 Lindquist, Thea, Holley Long, and Alexander Watkins. “Supporting Digital Humanists: Taking a Data-
Driven Approach to Needs Assessment and Service Design.” Data-Driven Digital Humanities and the
Library, Charleston, SC. June, 2014.
 “Teaching the Law and Ethics of Image Use in an Age of Appropriate and Piracy.” LOEX Conference,
Grand Rapids, MI. May, 2014.
 “Untangling the Law and Ethics of Image Use in an Age of Appropriation and Piracy.” ARLIS/NA
Conference, Washington, DC. May, 2014.
 “Why Open Access Matters for the Arts.” ACRL Arts Discussion Forum, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago,
IL. June, 2013.
 “Expanding Zotero’s Image Universe: Building translators to harvest our digital collections.” Emerging
Technology Forum, ARLIS/NA Conference, Pasadena, CA. April 2013.
 “Creating a Graphic Novel Section at your Library.” presenter and panelist, Graphic Novels in the Library
II, Wondercon, San Francisco, CA. March 2009.
Local
 “Preservation and Documentation of Performance Art: Problematics.” Presenter and panelist, Jong-Ku
Kim, Visiting Artist’s Lecture & Panel, Boulder, CO. February 2014.
 “Open Access and the Humanities.” Presenter and panelist, Open Access at CU, Boulder, CO. October
2012.
Virtual

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 “Teaching the Law and Ethics of Image Use in an Age of Appropriate and Piracy.” LOEX Encore
Presentation. June 2014.
 “Why Open Access Matters for the Arts.” Perspectives on Art Publishing: Past, Present, Future and Open,
ARLIS/NA and ACRL-Arts joint webinar. February 2014.
 Day of Digital Humanities, Task Force Blog. April 2013.
http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu/cuboulderlibraries/
 Zotero Citation Style, Chicago Manual of Style (figures & illustrations). April 2013.
http://www.zotero.org/styles
 Blog Posts, CU Libraries News. http://libpress.colorado.edu/?author=45
 Guest Blogger, The Desk Set, 4 posts. March 2012. http://thedeskset.org/
 Watkins, Alexander, Valerie Albicker, and Deborah Fink. Jongku Kim’s Artist in Residence Visit,
Performance Piece, and Panel Discussion, $3,000 grant from the President’s Fund for the Humanities.
November, 2013.
 Lindquist, Thea, Holley Long, and Alexander Watkins. Digital Humanities Symposium and Workshop,
$3,500 special event grant from the CU Boulder Committee on the Arts and Humanities. March 2013.
Credit Courses
ENVD 4764: Research Skills in Environmental Design (1 credit course). Spring, 2014.
ARTH 4029/5029: Art History Research Methods (1 credit course). Fall, 2013.
Library Seminars
21-30 Course integrated library seminars per semester
World Art Studies
Coordination of 15-17 graduate student led library seminars per semester for ARTH1300 and ARTH1400
National
 Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
 Public Policy Committee, 2014-
 Professional Development Committee, Education Subcommittee, 2014-
 Mountain West Chapter, 2012-

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University Service
 College of Media, Communication and Information Implementation Committee
 Design, Strategic Thinking and Advertising Subcommittee, 2013-
Library Service
 Faculty Director of Libraries Information Technology Search Committee, 2014
 Interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Librarians Search Committee, 2013
 Committee on Recruitment to the Profession of Academic Librarianship, 2013-
 Chair, 2013
 Virtual Presence Working Group, 2013-
 Co-Chair, 2013-
 Digital Humanities Task Force, 2013-
 Co-Coordinator and Panel Moderator, dh+CU Symposium, August 2013
 Scholarly Communications Working Group, 2012-
 User Experience Working Group, 2012-2013
 Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP). Boulder, CO. May 14-16, 2013.
 Crafting Assessment Questions: Creating the Tools to Assess Information Literacy Objectives for Art and
Design, Pasadena, CA, April 26, 2013
 Zotero Workshop, Boulder, CO, November 15-16, 2012.
 THATcamp: Digital Humanities in Libraries, Denver, CO. November 2012. Co-discussion leader for
session: Starting a Digital Humanities Program.
 Art Books and E-Books: A Difficult Conversation? Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, September
2012.