Katie Blocksidge

Katie Blocksidge serves as the library director at The Ohio State University at Newark and Central Ohio Technical College.  In this role, she leads a team of five staff members responsible for supporting the information literacy and research needs of students, faculty, and staff at both institutions. Information literacy is an ongoing focus of her career, particularly integrating it into assignments and the curriculum in partnership with faculty.

She acts as a facilitator for the Drake Institute endorsement, Meaningful Inquiry.  In this workshop series, participants explore pedagogical strategies to design research assignments that are meaningful and equitable.  The workshop series has been offered since 2019 and has been implemented for in-person and virtual audiences. In addition to her work with the Meaningful Inquiry team, she conducts research on the information behaviors of first-year undergraduates.