UPDATED: Libraries’ Faculty Publish Research Articles in Academic Journals

NOTE: We inadvertently omitted several library faculty who also published research articles in 2025. Their articles have been added to this story.

In the last year, WSU Libraries’ faculty and a research assistant have published research articles in various academic journals, bringing their scholarship endeavors to a broad audience.

The articles include the following:

• “Beef Tea and Protose Broth: A Study in Convalescent Cookery, 1893-1904,” written by Talea Anderson for Global Food History. This essay provides insight regarding convalescent cookery, a type of cooking designed to provide sustenance to people in ill health. Many scholars have noted the remarkable degree of continuity in this cuisine as it evolved from the early modern period into the 20th century. This paper points out countercurrents within the larger genre of convalescent cookery by examining a sample cookbook, Ella Eaton Kellogg’s Science in the Kitchen (originally published in 1892).
• “Will We Ever Learn?: The Un-Enlightenment of Selector Librarians,” written by Erica England for the Journal of Radical Librarianship. England examines the factors shaping selector librarians’ collection development practices, especially efforts to include authentic voices and representation. Using data from a national survey and 19 follow-up interviews, her case study highlights a key finding: Academic librarians are not receiving sufficient training in collection development during their accredited degree programs.
• “AI-Infused Discovery Environments: Information Retrieval Boon or Overpromised Hype?,” written by Blake Galbreath, Erica England, Corey Johnson, and Jennifer Saulnier Lange for Information Technology and Libraries (to be published on Dec. 15). The authors describe the process used to evaluate Primo Research Assistant—an AI-infused discovery tool—for potential deployment at WSU. The researchers evaluated 103 natural-language search queries to compare the quality and relevance of the AI-generated results with those retrieved through conventional search functionality, as well as to assess the AI system’s multi-paragraph overview responses.
• “Collecting to Support Ukrainian Diaspora in Washington State,” written by Gabriella Reznowski and Emily Cukier, and research assistant Ruslan Mukhamedvaleev, for Alki: The Washington Library Association Journal. The article helped develop an understanding of the importance of collecting Ukrainian materials and the landscape of different allies working to preserve and disseminate Ukrainian literature, with the goal of enabling and encouraging Ukrainian book collection in Washington state libraries.
• “Slowing Down Together: Reflections on Shared Practice in the Neoliberal University,” written by WSU Vancouver Library’s Carol Fisher, Sam Lohmann, and Sam Buechler for the Journal of Radical Librarianship. In this case study, library instruction workers at a four-year R1 university reflected on the timeline and process of creating an instruction working group and documenting a program centered on critical information literacy.
• “RECOVER Guidelines: Newborn Resuscitation in Dogs and Cats. Evidence and Knowledge Gap Analysis With Treatment Recommendations,” co-written by WSU Spokane Health Sciences Library’s Suzanne Fricke for the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. This work systematically reviewed the evidence on, devised clinical recommendations for, and identified critical knowledge gaps in resuscitation of newborn puppies and kittens.
• “Well-Being Interventions for Rural Health Professionals: A Scoping Review,” co-written by WSU Spokane Health Sciences Library’s Suzanne Fricke for the Journal of Rural Health. The review identified interventions to promote well-being that have been tried or proven effective to prevent or address burnout in rural health care professionals and trainees. Secondarily, the authors aimed to identify potentially applicable and feasible well-being interventions that could help these individuals.
• “Climate Change and Nursing Research: A Scoping Review,” co-written by WSU Spokane Health Sciences Library’s Ann Dyer for Environmental Research: Health. The review mapped nurse scientists’ contributions to climate change and health research, including work about Indigenous peoples, and identified gaps and future opportunities.