Kristin Whitman (she/her)

  • Instructor, Library
  • Head of Learning and Information Services

Biography

Kristin is the head of Learning and Information Services at the OHSU library, where she supports faculty librarians that provide instruction, literature search, and evidence synthesis to the OHSU community. She joined OHSU in October of 2024. 

Kristin previously served as the director of the Portland-Metro campus library of Oregon Tech, where she worked to support joint OHSU-OIT programs with library services. At Oregon Tech, Kristin also served as the director of the OER library grant program and as “point person” for Open Oregon grant-funded projects. 

Kristin's research interests include the intersection of disciplinary associations with the open education movement, and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of academic librarians toward OER.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.Ed., 2020, Boise State University
    • M.L.I.S., 2011, Rutgers University
    • B.S., 2005, The College of William and Mary

  • Fellowship

    • SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow, SPARC, 2023

Memberships and associations:

  • Medical Library Association
  • Association of College & Research Libraries

Areas of interest

  • open educational resources
  • information literacy
  • literature searching
  • information research to support evidence-based medicine
  • biomedical library databases
  • open pedagogy
  • assessment
  • gray literature

Honors and awards

  • SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow, SPARC, 2023
  • Open Education Group Research Fellow, 2024
  • Medical Library Association Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellow, 2022
  • Instructional Design Quality Essentials Certification
  • OEN Certificate in OER Librarianship

Publications

Selected publications

  • Richards, R., Monnin, J., & Whitman, K. (2026). The Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Academic Librarians Toward Open Educational Resources: Developing and Validating the OpenEd-LibKAP Scale . Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 21(1), 141–166. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30707
  • Whitman, K. (2024). Untapped Potential: Open Educational Resources and Disciplinary Associations.  Open Education Conference 2024, Providence, RI, United States. https://opened24.sched.com/event/1gu5n/untapped-potential-the-role-of-disciplinary-associations-in-open-education
  • Whitman, K., Monnin, J., & Richards, R. (2024). OER Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Academic Librarians.  Open Education Conference 2024, Providence, RI, United States. https://opened24.sched.com/event/1guPw/oer-knowledge-attitudes-and-practices-of-academic-librarians
  • Whitman, K., Bolin, B., Jardine, S. & Johnson, S. (2022, Jan 6-9). Information literacy self-efficacy after earning library badges [Poster presentation]. Medical Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., United States.