Patrick Morgan

Library Staff - Patrick Morgan

Meet Patrick!

Library Director

I’ve worked in several different librarian capacities at several different colleges around the US (including the University of the Ozarks and Savannah State University) since I became a librarian in 2008, and I’ve been teaching at the college level since 2001. Currently, I serve as Library Director at Centenary, and I’ve been here since the first day of 2022. I think libraries are the best places to be, and I believe in the value of individual information gathering and the power of reflective searching. Colleges wouldn’t work without libraries! A fun fact about me is that I trained as an assyriologist (ancient Near East) before becoming a librarian, and cuneiform studies remains one of my favorite areas of inquiry. I also really like bugs, and mushroom identification is a hobby of mine.

Email Address: pmorgan@centenary.edu
Phone Number: 318.869.5171
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About Patrick

Education

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Master of Science, Library and Information Science, June 2009.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Arts, Near Eastern Studies, December 2001.
Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, May 2000.

Courses taught at Centenary:

Information and the Human Experience
Paris by Library
Living Myth(ology)

Featured Presentations:

“Weird (library) science: Building community unconventionally.”
Presented March 29, 2026, at the Texas Library Association annual conference in Houston, TX.
“We are the Library: Leveraging library work/study to create communities of consequence.” (With Kat Williamson).
Presented April 4, 2025, at the biennial meeting of the Association of College and Research Libraries in Minneapolis, MN.
“Vibe-checking the Library.” (With Kat Williamson.)
Presented October 19, 2023, at the 2023 LOUIS Users’ Conference.
“Embrace the quirk, and embrace the human.”
Lightning talk presented July 31, 2023, at the 12th Annual NOLA Information Literacy Forum (held virtually).
“Discovery and the ideal structure of search queries: Advanced search as antidote to the black box search strategy.”
Presented August 2, 2023, at the 12th Annual NOLA Information Literacy Forum (held virtually).
“Gleaning the positive from the negative space of pandemic-era library assessment.”
Presented June 1, 2021, at the 9th HBCU Library Alliance Membership Meeting (held virtually).

Featured publications:

“We are the library.” Proceedings of ACRL 2025, published by the American Library Association, March 2025
“Foundational assumptions in threshold concepts and information literacy.” Proceedings of ACRL 2015, published by the American Library Association, March 2015
“Pausing at the threshold.” - portal: Libraries and the Academy 15.1, January 2015
“Information literacy learning as epistemological process.” - Reference Services Review 42.3, August 2014

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