Dr. Sarah A. Evans

Evans, S. A., Moore, J., Molina, L., Smith, D., Tudor, A., & Schultz-Jones, B. (2026). From book trailer to BookTok: Engaging readers through digital literacies. In P. Dalrymple, H. Todd, L. Marquardt, & C. Wanjala (Eds.), Libraries empowering society through digital literacy. De Gruyter Saur.

Ryan, S. E., Evans, S. A., & Hawamdeh, S. (2023). Public libraries as key knowledge infrastructure needed to empower communities, promote economic development, and foster social justice. In K. Williams-Cockfield & B. Mehra (Eds.), How public libraries build sustainable communities in the 21st century (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 53). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020230000053019

Ward, S. J., & Evans, S. A. (2019). Playing to learn, learning to play: The significance of play and making programs in the library. In K. Campana & J. E. Mills (Eds.), Create, innovate, and serve: A radical approach to children’s and youth services (pp. 37–48). ALA Neal-Schuman.

Evans, S. A. (2019). Why teens need the library and the library needs teens. In K. Campana & J. E. Mills (Eds.), Create, innovate, and serve: A radical approach to children’s and youth services (pp. 201–209). ALA Neal-Schuman.

Evans, S. A. (2018). Mediating adolescence: Public librarians, teenage culture, and young adult literature. In A. A. Doughty (Ed.), Broadening critical boundaries in children’s and young adult literature and culture (pp. 139–159). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Kim, S. H., Choi, G. W., Choi, K., Copeland, A., D’Arpa, C., Evans, S., Simpson, L., Lee, H. R., & Yoon, A. (2025). Public library–university research partnerships in library and information science: Exploring the benefits, challenges, and strategies for community-engaged scholarship. The Library Quarterly, 95(4), 345–367. https://doi.org/10.1086/737071

Ryan, S. E., & Evans, S. A. (2025). Rural librarians as health information intermediaries: How librarians complicate “rural,” leverage kairotic opportunities, and communicate through health ideographs. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 8(2), 127–157. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2025.2506

Kim, J., Evans, S., Hong, L., Rice-Oyler, E., & Oladapo, L. (2024). Literacy in flux: Perspectives of community college librarians on evolving educational demands and library capacities. Library & Information Science Research, 46(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2024.101327

Miles, T., Herman, B., Aragon, C., & Evans, S. (2024). Black women getting a seat at the table in the video game industry. International Journal of Organizational Diversity, 24(2), 65–83. https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6261/CGP/v24i02/65-83

Kim, J., Hong, L., & Evans, S. A. (2024). Towards measuring data literacy for higher education: Developing and validating a self-efficacy data literacy scale. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(8), 916–931. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24934

Evans, S. A., Simpson, L., Molina, L. N., & Stanley, C. F. (2024). Concentric learning communities: Educating rural library staff in principles of collaborative family learning. Library Trends, 72(4), 625642. https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2024.a949574

Evans, S. A., Hong, L., Kim, J., Rice-Oyler, E., & Ali, I. (2024). Community college students’ self-assessment of data literacy: Exploring differences amongst demographic, academic, and career characteristics. Information and Learning Sciences, 125(3/4), 232–251. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0065

Sosnowski, J., Tokunaga, T., & Evans, S. A. (2022). Participatory action research in education: Benefits and tensions across contexts. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46(1), 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12174

Evans, S. A. (2022). We need people to be woken up and see this! Teens learning through critical textual analysis. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 46(1), 26–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12172

Evans, S. A. (2019). Book nerds united: The reading lives of diverse adolescents at the public library. The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, 3(2), 23. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v3i2.32589

Mills, J. E., Goldsmith, A. Y., Campana, K., Patin, B. J., & Evans, S. A. (2015). Putting youth first: The radical Eliza T. Dresang. Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults, 5. http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/2015/01/putting-youth-first-the-radical-eliza-t-dresang/

McCutchen, D., Stull, S., Logan-Herrera, B., Lotas, S., & Evans, S. A. (2013). Putting words to work: Effects of morphological instruction on children’s writing. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 47(1), 86–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219413509969

Yoon, S., Evans, S. A., Aragon, C., Herman, B., Yang, L., & Molina, L. (2025). Transforming perspective on data ethics through collaborative game design. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62, 1731–1733. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1524

Devasia, N., Figueroa, A., Evans, S. A., Herman, B., & Aragon, C. (2024). Student perspectives on learning and teaching data ethics through speculative game design. In J. Clarke-Midura, I. Kollar, X. Gu, & C. D’Angelo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning—CSCL 2024 (pp. 59–66). https://doi.org/10.22318/cscl2024.280974

Yoon, S., Evans, S. A., Aragon, C., Herman, B., Devasia, N., & Miles, T. (2024). Responsibility and care in AI/ML education: A collaborative approach to ethical awareness. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61, 1168–1170. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.1220

Stanley, C., Evans, S., Simpson, L., Molina, L., & Yoon, S. (2024). Raise Up Radio: Creating a field guide for libraries serving rural communities. In Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences Annual Meeting. https://doi.org/10.22318/icls2024.775688

Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S. A., Rice-Oyler, E., & Ali, I. (2023). Development and validation of a data literacy assessment scale. In Proceedings of the 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.827

Moore, J., Evans, S. A., & Schultz-Jones, B. (2023). From book talks to BookTok: An examination of school librarians’ usage of online book communities. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Association of School Librarianship Conference and the 26th International Forum on Research in School Librarianship.

Kim, J., Hong, L., Evans, S. A., Ali, I., & Rice-Oyler, E. (2022). Toward an understanding of data literacy needs in community colleges: A conceptual framework. In Proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libraries 2023 Conference.

Byun, M., Evans, S., Herman, B., Aragon, C., & Rojas-Ponce, D. (2022). Game development as speculative design: Teaching data science ethics using decentralized research groups. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 630–632. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.672

Evans, S., Keeton, K., Molina, L. N., & Byun, M. (2022). Going back to get the stories: Oral histories of childhood reading from diverse perspectives. In Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2022 Conference (ALISE Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2022.1095

Evans, S. A., Molina, L. N., & Davis-McElligatt, J. (2022). Using graphic medicine to bring underrepresented voices forward through public library health literacy programs. In Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. https://doi.org/10.3102/1892986

Evans, S. A., Molina, L. N., & Davis-McElligatt, J. (2022). Turning ourselves inside out: Reading and creating graphic medicine in community. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) (pp. 2164–2165). https://2022.isls.org/proceedings/

Jim, C., Evans, S., & Grant, A. (2021). Multidimensional approaches to illustrate the digital divide among K–12 students. In Proceedings of the 24th International Forum on Research on School Librarianship, International Association of School Librarianship Conference. https://doi.org/10.29173/iasl8282

Kim, J. A., Hong, L., & Evans, S. (2021). Defining data literacy: An empirical study of data literacy dimensions. In Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2019 Conference. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/110887

Davis, R., Frens, J., Sharma, N., Muralikumar, M. D., Aragon, C., & Evans, S. (2020). Mentorship network structure: How relationships emerge online and what they mean for amateur creators. In Proceedings of the 2020 Connected Learning Summit (pp. 36–45). https://2020.connectedlearningsummit.org/proceedings/

Herman, B., Aragon, C., Evans, S., & Shanley, L. (2020). Advancing diversity in human-centered data science education through games. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), Article e314. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.314

Marino, J., Evans, S., Moore, J., Smith, D. L., Schultz-Jones, B., & Elkins, A. (2019). Preparing library professionals for data literacy leadership: Administrator perspectives. In Proceedings of the Association for Library and Information Science Education 2019 Conference (pp. 129–132). https://hdl.handle.net/2142/105330

Moore, J., Marino, J., Evans, S. A., & Schultz-Jones, B. (2019). A design approach to a wicked problem: Designing data service training for pre-service information professionals. In Proceedings of iConference 2019. https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103341

Evans, S. A., Davis, K., Evans, A., Campbell, J., Randall, D., Yin, K., & Aragon, C. (2017). More than peer production: Fanfiction communities as sites of distributed mentoring. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 259–272). https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998342

Yin, K., Aragon, C., Evans, S. A., & Davis, K. (2017). Where no one has gone before: The first meta-dataset of the world’s largest fanfiction repository. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 6106–6110). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025720

Campbell, J., Aragon, C., Davis, K., Evans, S. A., Evans, A., & Randall, D. P. (2016). Thousands of positive reviews: Distributed mentoring in online fan communities. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 691–704). https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819934

Evans, S. A. (2014). Beyond databases: Librarians in a project-based language arts curriculum. In Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) (Vol. 3, pp. 1633–1634). https://archive.isls.org/conferences/icls/2014/Proceedings.html

Martens, M., Evans, S. A., & Alexiusson, M. (Eds.). (2023). Newsletter special issue: International views on banned books. The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Section Libraries for Children and Young Adults.

Evans, S. A. (2018). Research roundup: Youth activism through community engagement (2nd ed., Vol. 16, pp. 14–16).

Evans, S. A., Randall, D. P., Campbell, J., Davis, K., Aragon, C., & Evans, A. (2016). How fan fiction mentors can change lives. School Library Journal. https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=how-fan-fiction-mentors-can-change-lives

Evans, S. A., Lu, K., & Head, A. (2015). Zach Sims: Learning real-life skills that matter. Smart Talk Interview (22nd ed.). Project Information Literacy. https://www.projectinfolit.org/zach-sims-smart-talk.html.

Evans, S. A., & Head, A. (2014). Sari Feldman: Making public libraries more relevant than ever. Smart Talk Interview (21st ed.). Project Information Literacy. https://www.projectinfolit.org/sari-feldman-smart-talk.html.

Evans, S. A., & Head, A. (2014). Katie Davis: Who is the learner of tomorrow? Smart Talk Interview (20th ed.). Project Information Literacy. https://projectinfolit.org/smart-talk-interviews/who-is-the-learner-of-tomorrow/

Head, A., & Evans, S. A. (2014). Cathy Davidson: How disruption and distraction are remaking learning. Smart Talk Interview (18th ed.). Project Information Literacy. https://projectinfolit.org/smart-talk-interviews/how-disruption-and-distraction-are-remaking-learning/.

Evans, S. A., & Head, A. (2014). Eric Gordon: How games promote lifelong learning and civic engagement. Smart Talk Interview (19th ed.). Project Information Literacy. https://projectinfolit.org/smart-talk-interviews/how-games-promote-lifelong-learning-and-civic-engagement/