Omer Farooq

Dr. Omer Farooq

Research and Instruction Services, Associate Professor

email:

ofarooq@unomaha.edu

office:

CL 220

office phone:

402.554.3207

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General Information

Biography

Omer Farooq, PhD, is the Social Sciences Librarian at Criss Library. He conducts instruction sessions, research consultations, and workshops on literature reviews, research design, and analysis for undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, he leads the library's initiative in Research Data Services.

Teaching Interests

Information literacy instruction.

Research Interests

Information literacy instruction, assessment, curriculum design, research design. Application of cognitive and learning science in information literacy instruction.

Service Summary

Omer Farooq has been actively involved in promoting and assessing Research Data Services (RDS) on campus and with the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries (UNCL) Research Data Services Working Group. Select recent service includes: AI Common Core Committee, ALA Data Analysis Special Interest Group (DASIG), Education Policy and Advisory Committee (EPAC), University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT), ACRL Education and Behavioral Science Section (EBSS) Research Committee, and the Nebraska Library Association's College and University Section Grant Committee.

Education

BA, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Psychology, 2000

MSLS, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Academic Librarianship, 2012

Ph D, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Library and Information Science, 2018

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Heppler, Jason, Farooq, Omer, Ehrig Page, Kathryn. 2022. Creating Capacity for Research Data Services at Regional Universities: A Case Study, Teaching Research Data Management.

Farooq, Omer, Maher, Monica. 2021. Synthesis and Generativity: Elaborative Interrogation Prompts for Graduate Information Literacy , Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47, 5.

Blackburn, Heidi, Farooq, Omer. 2019. LGBTQIA-R: Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Medical Collection at a Public Metropolitan University, Collection Management.

Farooq, Omer. 2019. The Effect of Elaborative Interrogation on the Synthesis of Ideas from Multiple Sources of Information, Open Information Science, 3, 1, 76-87.

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