Scholarly Interests:
Trends and issues in collection management of academic libraries
Poststructuralism - Foucault's theory of power/knowledge
Leadership in academic libraries
Select Publications:
McAllister, A.D. Scherlen, A. & Hollandsworth, R. (2023) “Losing Our Libraries: Misguided Leadership,” in Bernhardt, B., Hinds, L., & Meyer, Charleston Conference Proceedings, Nov. 2022. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14369519. Available open access at: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/tb09j8935?locale=en#page=547
Christi Sevits & Alex D. McAllister (2023). Developing an Introductory Diversity Audit at Liberty Public Library: An Action Research Approach, Public Library Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2023.2244838 [Peer-reviewed journal article]
McAllister, Alex D.; Flierl, Michael; Caswell, Thomas R.; Costello, Laura; Hall, Anita R.; Li, Cindy; Maher, Monica; Piorun, Mary; Prud’homme, Patrice-Andre; Quigley, Brian D.; and Walker, Gregory, (2022). “2022 Top Trends in Academic Libraries,” College & Research Libraries News, 83(6), 243. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.6.243 <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/25483/33379>. Date accessed: 05 aug. 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.6.243. [National Committee Article]
Boehme, Ginny; McAllister, A.D.; Caswell, Thomas R.; Denlinger, Kyle; Flierl, Michael; Hall, Anita R.; Li, Cindy; Quigley, Brian D.; Wang, Minglu; and Wesolek, Andrew J., (2021). “ACRL 2021 Environmental Scan.” https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/EnvironmentalScan2021.pdf
Scherlen, A., & McAllister, A.D., (2019). Voices versus visions: A commentary on academic library collections and new directions. Collection Management, Published online Jan. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2018.1547999 [Peer-reviewed journal article]
McAllister, A.D. & Scherlen, A. (2017). Weeding with wisdom: Tuning deselection of print monographs in book-reliant disciplines. Collection Management, 42(2), 76-91. [Peer-reviewed journal article]