Tim Dolan is a reference librarian at GCC. He spends the bulk of his time as a teacher, working with faculty to prepare students for academic research. He also coordinates campus-wide efforts to introduce free and affordable textbooks into the curriculum, and supervises the library's exceptional crew of student workers. In addition, he is a 2019-2020 fellow with the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship and is currently conducting on-campus research about student use of academic journals.

Prior to landing at GCC, Tim taught ESOL at the Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center, conducted research on heritage, tourism, and identity as a Fulbright student researcher in Jordan, and washed dishes at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Tim is a proud graduate of Holyoke Community College, and now holds a MA in ethnomusicology from Indiana University as well as an MSLIS from Simmons College.

Research Interests

Open access and open educational resources, scholarly publishing, media studies, culture of science, critical pedagogy

GCC Committees

Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee
Vice president, Greenfield Community College Professional Association
Chair, Library and Information Literacy Advisory Committee

Publications and Presentations

Harrington, L., Dolan, T., and C. Lobdell. (2019). Greenfield Community College: Finding value in the process. In Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts, Association of College and Research Libraries Publications [forthcoming].

Smith, J., Contrada, C., Hines, K., and T. Dolan. (2018, June). University and community college collaboration for OER success. Panel discussion at the Northeast Regional OER Summit, university of Massachusetts at Amherst.

McCarthy, L., and T. Dolan. (2018, May). Cultivating critical thinking in an age of ‘fake news.’ Presentation at the Teaching, Learning, and Student Development conference, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA.

Dolan, T. (2017, June). Open access first? Presentation at the Northeast Regional OER Summit,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dolan, T. (2016). Atiyeh Award essay. MELA Notes, 89, 105-107.

Dolan, T. (2016). [Review of the book Henry George Farmer and the first international congress of Arab music (Cairo 1932), by Israel J. Katz]. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 19(3-4), 246-247. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2016.1235919

Harrington, L., and T. Dolan (2016, May). The Living Library at your academic library. Workshop presented at the annual conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, New England Chapter, Manchester NH.

Dolan, T. (2015, April). Eidetic Identities: Phenomenological Realism in Hip-Hop Practice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Providence, RI.

Dolan, T. (2014). ‘Iraq is the new black’: Performing Arabness in Arab American hip-hop. M.A. Thesis, Indiana University.

Professional Affiliations

• American Library Association
• Association of College and Research Libraries
  • ACRL Immersion Teacher Track, 2017
  • ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee
• Institute for Research Design in Librarianship: 2019-2020 research fellow
• OpenCon Community

Languages

Spanish
Levantine Arabic

Community Work

Greenfield city councilor for Precinct 5
Member of the Sustainable Greenfield Implementation Committee
Occasional member of the Ephemeral Stringband