Publications

Edited Books

• Knowlton, S., Pozzi, E., Sly, J.S., Spunaugle, E. (2024). Libraries without Borders. ALA Editions. https://www.alastore.ala.org/LHRTbook  

• International edition available through Facet Publishing, https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/libraries-without-borders/?k=9781783307166 

Book Contributions 

• “Introduction,” to Knowlton, S., Pozzi, E., Sly, J.S., Spunaugle, E. (2023). Libraries without Borders. ALA Editions. 

Refereed Book Chapters

• Sly, J.S., and Koivisto, J.A. (2025). “The Closed-Loop: Academic Publication and the Data Surveillance Conundrum”. in Cristine Smith (ed.), Platform Power and Libraries. Sacramento: Litwin Books & Library Juice Press, 2025.  https://drum.lib.umd.edu/items/770c8571-cc1f-4519-a886-68518415d3b0  

• Sly, J. S. (2017). “Improve the Moment”: Mechanics’ Institutes and the Culture of Improvement in the Nineteenth-Century. In M. A. Kimball & K. M. Wisser (Eds.), in Libraries: Traditions & Innovations, Papers from the Library History Seminar XIII (pp. 16–28). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/26367 

Refereed Articles

• Sly, J., & Coren, A. (2022). Rethinking Library Services for First-Generation Students: Using Habitus as a Framework for Reevaluating Existing Models. Journal of New Librarianship, 7(1), 126–158 https://doi.org/10.33011/newlibs/11/13   

• Michalak, L.,Sly, J.S. and Brewer, H.(2022), “The Slavery, Law, & Power Project: Curating the Debates over Democracy and Justice in Early America and the British Empire,” Scholarly Editing Vol. 39, 2022. 10.55520/EMQNGDY2  

• Sly, J. S., DePope, L. A., Frank, C., & Ritchie, S. (2019). “The time has come... to build, reflect, and analyze connections between qualitative and quantitative data,” Proceedings of the Charleston Conference, https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2019/analytics/8/ 10.5703/1288284317144 

Essays and Editorials 

• Sly, J.S. and Koivisto, J.A. (2023). “Publication and data surveillance in academia.” Research Information (“RI Yearbook” 2022/2023), https://www.researchinformation.info/feature/publication-and-data-surveillance-academia 

• Jaeger, P.T., Kettnich, K., Oltman, S.M., Taylor, N.G., Garner, J., Sly, J.S. (2022). “Exuberantly Exhuming McCarthy: Confronting the Widespread Attacks on Intellectual Freedom in the United States”. Library Quarterly, 92 (4), https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721397 

• Sly, J.S. (2021), “Library Quarterly Reviews Committee: Reformation,” Library Quarterly 91 (3). https://doi.org/10.1086/715921 

• Sly, J.S. (2020). Vision for Library Quarterly reviews. Library Quarterly, 90 (1), 94-95. https://doi.org/10.1086/706315 

• Taylor, N.G., Gorham, U., Jaeger, P., Kettnich, K, and Sly, J.S. (2020). “Never Set in Stone: Library Quarterly at 90.” Library Quarterly, 90 (1), 1-4. https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/doi/10.1086/706308

• Sly, J. (2018). Bourdieu’s first year. Journal of New Librarianship, 3(2), 193-198. https://doi.org/10.21173/newlibs/5/4 

• Sly, J. S. (2011). A Failure of Marketing. The Journal of Comparative Librarianship, 3(1), 61–66. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol3/iss1/9/

Reviews and Review Essays

• Sly, J.S. (2024) Review Essay of The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, edited by John Morrill, for English Studies, 105 (2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2317071 

• Sly, J.S. (2021) Exhibit Review of Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence. Tesserae, January, https://www.tesseraepress.com/sly-1-27-2021

• Sly, J.S. (2021) Review of International and Comparative Librarianship Concepts and Methods for Global Studies. Library Quarterly 9(1), January 2021, p. 115-117. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/711638

• Sly, J.S. (2019) Review of the database, “East India Company” The Charleston Advisor, 21(1):26 https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.21.1.26

• Sly, J.S. (2017). Review Essay of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. College & Research Libraries, 78 (6), fall 2017, p.868-870 https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16744 

• Sly, J.S. (2012). Review of Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States. SHARPNews, 21(3), summer 2012, p.8. https://sharp.press.jhu.edu/members_only/SHARP_News_Summer_2012_21.3.pdf 

Refereed Presentations

• Sly, J.S., “‘The Empire of your Virtues Reacheth Far’: Oliver Cromwell and the Imperial Protectorship”. Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, 20-March-2026. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/35259 

• Sly, J.S., “For the Better Satisfaction of the Christian and Curious Reader”: The Visual Tropes and the Rhetoric of Atrocity in Representing the 1655 Massacre of the Piedmont Protestants, Centre for Early Modern Studies Annual Colloquium, King’s College London, 6-June-2025,  http://hdl.handle.net/1903/33909 

• Sly, J.S., “Protector of the Reformed: Oliver Cromwell’s Religio-Political Motives and the Development of Protectorate Ideology”, Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies 2025 Annual Meeting, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 3-July-2025.

• Koivisto, J.A. and Sly, J.S. (2022). “The Closed-Loop: Academic Publication Data Conundrum,” The Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC, November 2022 

• Sly, J.S. (2021) “Brutal Hands and the Shaping of Historical Memory: How Digital History Can De-Archive Material for Increased Access and Responsible Stewardship,” Association of Documentary Editing Annual Conference, July 2021. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27328 

• Sly, J.S. (2020). “Developing library programming for non-departmental student programs,” Towson Conference for Academic Libraries, Towson, MD, August 2020. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/26365 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcf3NcjJl4c&list=PL_Om9ECe0E2lbxssjd2NNj4RPDiijGRfB&index=14 https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/4816. 

• Sly, J.S. and Wilson, S. (2020). “Outreach to Non-Degree Seeking Graduate Students: Aspects of Student Focused Critical Librarianship and Fostering an Inclusive Research Community,” Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum, Washington, D.C., February 2020. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/26009 

• Sly, J. S. (2018). “Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network,” North American Conference for British Studies, Providence, RI, October 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27141 

• Gammons, R., Inge, L., and Sly, J. S. (2018). “When Stars Align: Redesigning an Instruction and Assessment Program to Align With the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy.” LOEX, Houston, TX, May 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/21535 

• Sly, J. S. (2018). “Digital Approaches to Understanding the Recusant Printing Network.” Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, College Park, MD, April 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27172 

• Sly, J. S. (2018). “Defining and Redefining Outreach to Special Populations.” Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum, Washington, D.C., February 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/20469 

• Sly, J. S. (2017). “Digital Humanities and the Recusant Printing Network: An Experiment in Research Format.” MEM-UM Migration(s): Body, Word, Spirit, College Park, MD, November 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27170 

• Sly, J. S. (2017). “What Can Digital Humanities Help us Discover About the Recusant Printing Network?” Ways of Knowing conference: Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, October 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27173 

• Sly, J. S. (2017). “Bourdieu’s First Year: First-Generation Students, Habitus, and Retention.” Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum conference, Washington, D.C., February 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19243 

• Sly, J. S. (2016). “Mastering Attribution: A Case Study of Strategic Partnering with the Campus Writing Center to Create a Competitive and Game-Based Anti-Plagiarism Workshop.” Towson Conference for Academic Libraries, Towson, MD August 2016, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19244 

• Sly, J. S. (2015). “Improve the Moment’: Mechanics’ Institutes and the Self-Help and Self-Reliance Movements in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain and North-eastern Urban America.” Library History Seminar XIII, Boston, MA July 2015, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27171 

Non-Refereed Presentations

• Sly, J.S. (2025) “The Book as a Monument: Archival Anxiety and Early Modern Historical Drives to Create Truth”, University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, June 2025, College Park, MD. 

• Koivisto, J.A. and Sly, J.S. (2022). “The Closed-Loop: Academic Publication Data Conundrum,” University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, June 2022 https://doi.org/10.13016/deym-xn0u , video recording, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h9BhjlllVGj599_Rv1qdKUGLdUHjyF_L/view?usp=sharing 

• Sly, J.S. (2022). “Did the Pandemic Alter Faculty Expectations of Library Instruction?” Big Ten Academic Alliance Liaison Institute, virtual, May 2022 http://hdl.handle.net/1903/28650 , video recording, https://youtu.be/imW6eEb68Mo?t=2950 

• Sly, J.S. (2021). “Challenges and Opportunities for Librarians in the Digital Humanities,” University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, College Park, MD, June 2021. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27110 

• Gammons, R.W., Sly, J.S., Markowitz, J., and Budhathaki, M. (2021). “Virtual Reference and Screen Sharing,” during the presentation “Reference Instruction.” Big Ten Academic Alliance Liaison Institute, virtual, June 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/28851

• Sly, J. S. (2018). “Library Services for First Generation Students: Looking to Pierre Bourdieu, Habitus, and Understanding the Whole Student.” University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, College Park, MD, June 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/26369 

• Sly, J. S. (2018). “Mythography and Diaspora: The Waldensians of North Carolina and their Books.” University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, College Park, MD, June 2018, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/26368 

• Sly, J. S. (2017). “The Recusant Print Network Project, Phase 1.” University of Maryland Libraries’ Research and Innovative Practice Forum, College Park, MD, June 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19242 

• Sly, J. S. (2016). “How Disciplined Was Foucault’s Research Process?: A Proposed Method of Research Based on Philosophical and Critical Models OR How the Humanities can Help Students Understand Research.” MD ACRL and MILEX Conference Considering #CritLib: Inclusion and Diversity in Libraries, Columbia, MD November 2016, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19247 

• Sly, J. S. “Why Do Libraries Matter?” University of Maryland Social Justice Day, College Park, MD, April 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19218

Refereed Posters

• Sly, J. S., DePope, L. A., Frank, C., & Ritchie, S. (2019). “The time has come... to build, reflect, and analyze connections between qualitative and quantitative data,” Charleston Conference, Charleston, S.C., November 2019. https://doi.org/10.26226/MORRESSIER.5D77B16E11D1A0B9ED93C43D 

• Sly, J. S. and Coren, A. “Rethinking Library Services for First-Generation Students: Do We Need to Change Existing Models?” Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum, Washington, D.C. February 2019 https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/21765

• Sly, J. S. “Why Do Libraries Matter?” University of Maryland Social Justice Day, College Park, MD, April 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19218

• Sly, J. S. “The Recusant Print Network Project, Phase 1” Catholic University of America Bridging the Spectrum, Washington, D.C. February 2017, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19246 

• Sly, J. S. “Mastering Attribution: Adapting Citation and Anti-Plagiarism Instruction into a Competitive and Active Game-Based Learning Activity” American Library Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA June 2015, https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19245

Invited Lectures, Interviews, and Speaking Engagements

• Book launch presentation, Platform Power and Libraries. August 2025 Event link

• “Cromwell: Protector of the Reformed?” A Talk by Jordan Sly, The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon, UK, May 2025 (online), https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromwell-protector-of-the-reformed-a-talk-by-jordan-sly 

• “The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont: Political Performance and the Use of History in the Cromwellian Protectorate”. A Talk given to the Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, March 2025.

• Panel Discussant/Commenter, Washington Early America Seminar and Anna Julia Cooper Center for Black Studies speaker event: Marjoline Kars. April 2022 event link. Link to comment: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/28574 

• “Habitus and First-Generation Students: Working to Expand the Model of Student Life,” UMD Libraries and iSchool Brown-bag series, October 2018

Guest-Lectures and Interviews

Interview for University of Maryland Libraries News, “Whose Data? UMD librarians weigh in on publication and data surveillance in academia. Article published in Research Information discusses the implications of publications-as-data model,” May 2023 https://www.lib.umd.edu/about/news/2023-05/whose-data-umd-librarians-weigh-publication-and-data-surveillance-academia 

Interview for LBSC 791 (UMD College of Information, instructor: Ursula Gorham) on publishing and a library career, November 2022

Interview for LBSC 791 on publishing and a library career (UMD College of Information, instructor: Ursula Gorham), July 2022

AIMS Innovation Conference, panel on Fake News, 1-Dec-2017, Columbia, MD

“Collaborative Website: Experimenting with Digital Humanities.” A presentation to the McDaniel College faculty describing alternate formats for undergraduate student research. This project was developed in conjunction with the chair of the Art History department and was created as a part of a grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Council for Undergraduate Research.

“Mechanics’ Institutes: A Brief History of a Social Library Movement.” Invited lecture, Simmons College, LIS 532C: History of Libraries, summer 2011. Instructor: Kathy Wisser.