Scott Spicer (he/him) serves as Media Outreach Librarian for the University of Minnesota Libraries (Twin Cities), where he is head of the Libraries Media Services program. His primary responsibilities include outreach to instructors on developing and supporting course-integrated student-created media assignments and educational media resources. He has studied, published, and presented on various media-related topics, including the benefits and library support of student-created media, educational media resources, media literacy skill set development, and multimodal scholarship.
A former chair of ALA’s Film and Media Round Table, he holds an M.L.I.S from Dominican University and an M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction-Learning Technologies from the University of Minnesota. Spicer is an Affiliate of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, where he designed the Student Produced Sustainability Project Gallery. His recent publications include an authored book on Student-Created Media: Design, Research, Learning and Skill-Building Experiences, a co-authored article in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice describing the application of a student-created sustainability media assignment in an Ecosystem Health course and a forthcoming co-authored book chapter on student-created media and ecoliteracy.
