PUBLICATIONS
Articles
2007
“Acquisitions in a Career College Library,” Against the Grain 19, no. 4 (September
2007): 52-53.
“Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Intrepid Brits Abroad,” Library Journal 132, no. 15
(September 15, 2007): 101.
2006
“Career College Libraries- the Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” LIScareer.com (November
2006). Electronic Document http://www.liscareer.com/aho_career.htm
Aho, Melissa, Marcia Franklin, Susan Wakefield, and Sara Wakefield. “Internships are
the Appetizers of the Library World so Nibble, Nibble, Nibble…” Library
Journal (June 6, 2006). Electronic Document
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341364.html
“Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Different Stories,” Library Journal 131, no. 5 (March
15, 2006): 112.
2005
Aho, Melissa, Erika Bennett & Susan Wakefield. “Fringe Librarians: Career College
Librarians Introduce Themselves,” Information Outlook 9, no. 6 (June 2005): 3839.
Book Chapters
2010
“Mary Akeley,” In Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, Hasia R. Diner, ed.
New York: Facts on File (Forthcoming).
“Anna May Wong,” In Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, Hasia R. Diner,
ed. New York: Facts on File (Forthcoming).
2009
“Leading Others to Publish,” in Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen and Suzanne Byke,
Editors, A Leadership Primer for New Librarians: Tools for Helping Today’s
Early-Career Librarians Become Tomorrow’s Library Leaders. Oxford, UK:
Cantos Publishing Limited, 2009: 158-159.
2008
Aho, Melissa, Erika Bennett, and Susan Wakefield, “Me Publish? I Don’t Have a Clue:
How to Get Published Online,” in Carol Smallwood, Editor, Thinking Outside the
Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,
Inc. Publishers, 2008: 48-50.
Aho, Melissa and Erika Bennett, “Modern Mobilization: Creating a New Library
Community,” in Carol Smallwood, Editor, Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for
Innovative Librarians. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Publishers, 2008: 181-183.
Aho, Melissa and Sommer Berg-Nebel, “New Distance Education Librarian: Tips and
Tools from the Trenches,” in Carol Smallwood, Editor, Thinking Outside the
Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company,
Inc. Publishers, 2008: 228-231.
Published Conference Papers
2007
Lillemar Nevanka Goonewardena and Melissa Aho. “Writing a New Chapter
Glocalization: Creating Libraries across the Globe - A Case Study in
Sri Lanka.” World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General
Conference and Council. Libraries for the Future: Progress, Development and
Partnerships. Durban, South Africa, August 19 - 23, 2007. International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2007. CD-ROM.
Book Reviews
2009
Review of Edna R. Russmann, Nigel Strudwick, and T.G.H. James, “Temples and Tombs:
Treasures of Egyptian Art from the British Museum,” Material Culture: The Journal of the
Pioneer American Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes
(Forthcoming).
Review of Rebecca M. Brown, “Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980,” ARLIS/NA Reviews
(August/September 2009). Electronic Document
http://www.arlisna.org/pubs/reviews/2009/08/brown.pdf
Review of Richard Steven Street, “Everyone had Cameras: Photography and
Farmworkers in California, 1850-2000,’ MultiCultural Review, 18, no. 2
(Summer 2009): 59.
Review of Erik Boekesteijin and Jaap van de Geer, photographs by Geert van den
Boogaard, “Shanachie Tour: A Library Road Trip Across America,” Public
Services Quarterly, 5, no. 2 (April-June 2009): 126-127.
Review of Jonathan Lyons, “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed
Western Civilization,” Library Journal, 134, no. 7 (April 15, 2009): 101.
Review of David Wen-Wei Chang & Alden R. Carter, “The Scholar and the Tiger: A
Memoir of Famine and War in Revolutionary China,” Library Journal,
134, no. 6 (April 1, 2009): 80.
Review of Sophie Brookover and Elizabeth Burns, “Pop Goes the Library: Using Pop
Culture to Connect With Your Whole Community,” Public Services Quarterly,
5, no. 1 (January-March 2009): 50-52.
Review of Nigel Pavitt, “Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940” and Abdi Roble
and Doug Rutledge, “The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away,” MultiCultural
Review, 18, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 53-54.
2008
Review of Barbara Thompson, ed., “Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and
Ideologies of the African Body,” MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 4 (Winter 2008):
60.
Review of Joyce M. Sazbo, “Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection,”
MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 60.
Review of William Cleveland, “Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines,”
MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 59-60.
Review of Rachel Singer Gordon, “What’s the Alternative? Career Options for Librarians
and Info Pros,” Public Services Quarterly, 4, no. 4 (2008): 372-373.
Review of Julie M. Schablitsky, Editor, “Box Office Archaeology: Refining
Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past,” Anthropology Review Database (December
4, 2008). Electronic Document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=3164
Review of Nina Burleigh “Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed & Forgery in the Holy
Land,” Library Journal, 133, no. 17 (October 15, 2008): 79.
Review of Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick, Editors, “Caribbean Libraries in
the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges, and Choices,” Public Services Quarterly,
4, no. 3 (2008): 253-255.
Review of Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius, Editors, “Landscape of Slavery: The
Plantation in American Art,” MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 57.
Review of Robert D. Stueart, “International Librarianship: A Basic Guide to Global
Knowledge Access,” Public Services Quarterly, 4, no. 2 (2008): 160-162.
Review of Joann Faung Jean Lee, “Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Oral
Histories of First- to Forth- Generation Americans From China, Japan, India,
Korea, The Philippines, Vietnam, and Laos,” Library Journal, 133, no. 13
(August 2008): 105.
Review of George Bobinski, “Libraries and Librarianship: Sixty Years of Challenge and
Change, 1945-2005,” Public Services Quarterly, 4, no. 1 (2008):49-50.
Review of Hartmut Walravens’s, ed., “International Newspaper Librarianship for the 21st
Century” and “Newspapers of the World Online: U.S. and International
Perspectives: Proceedings of Conferences in Salt Lake City and Seoul, 2006,”
Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS), 52, issue 3 (July 2008): 215216.
Review of Wing Young Huie, “Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour,”
MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 59.
Review of Adrienne L. Childs, “Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C.
Driskell,” MultiCultural Review, 17, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 59.
Review of Tammy Horn, “Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation,”
Material Culture: The Journal of the Pioneer American Society: Association for
the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes 40, no. 1 (Summer 2008): 107-109.
Review of Yiwu, Liao, translated from Chinese by Wen Huang, “The Corpse Walker:
Real Life Stories; China from the Bottom Up,” Library Journal 133, no. 7 (April
15, 2008): 96.
Review of Phillip Earenfight, Editor, “A Kiowa’s Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort
Marion,” MultiCultural Review 17, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 54.
Review of Christoph Bangert, “Iraq: The Space Between,” MultiCultural Review 17, no.
1 (Spring 2008): 54.
Review of Lara Dunston & Sarah Monaghan, “Dubai & Abu Dhabi’s Top 10,” Library
Journal 133, no. 5 (March 15, 2008): 83.
Review of Shelagh Vainker, “Chinese Silk: A Cultural History,” Art History 31, no. 1
(February 2008): 133-136.
Review of Brian M. Fagan, Editor, “Discovery! Unearthing the New Treasures of
Archaeology,” Library Journal 133, no. 1 (January 2008): 114.
2007
Review of Judith A. Siess, “The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small
Libraries,” Public Services Quarterly, 3, no. 3-4 (2007): 216-217.
Review of Alvia J. Wardlaw, “Charles Alston: The David C. Driskell Series of African
American Art, Volume VI,” MultiCultural Review 16, no. 4 (Winter 2007): 61.
Review of Michael Awkward, “Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the
Struggle for Artistic Identity,” MultiCultural Review 16, no. 4 (Winter 2007):
59-60.
Review of Martin Lemelman, “Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir,” Library Journal- Xpress
Reviews (November 20, 2007). Electronic Document.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6504464.html?industryid=47118
Review of Hugh Kennedy, “The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam
Changed the World We Live In,” Library Journal 132, no. 18 (November 1,
2007): 83-84.
Review of William Sonn, “Paradigms Lost: The Life and Deaths of the Printed Word,”
Public Services Quarterly 3, no. 1-2 (2007): 240-241.
Review of Judith Overmier and Rhonda Harris Taylor, Editors, “Managing the Mystery
Collection: From Creation to Consumption,” Public Services Quarterly 3, no.
1-2 (2007): 238-239.
Review of Toby Miller, “Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and
Television in a Neoliberal Age,” MultiCultural Review 16, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 81.
Review of Amalia K. Amaki and Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, “Hale Woodruff, Nancy
Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy.” MultiCultural Review 16, no. 3 (Fall
2007): 68.
Review of Virginia G. Drachman, “Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American
Business,” PAST: Pioneer American Society Transactions 30 (2007): 77-79.
Review of James Vining, “First in Space,” Library Journal- Xpress Reviews (July 24,
2007). Electronic Document.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6459992.html?industryid=47118
Review of Marq de Villiers & Sheila Hirtle, “Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of
Gold,” Library Journal 132, no. 11 (June 15, 2007): 79.
Review of Phyllis Birnbaum, “Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita: The Artist Caught
between East & West,” MultiCultural Review 16, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 60.
Review of Jesse Donahue and Erik Trump, “The Politics of Zoos: Exotic Animals and
Their Protectors,” The Journal of Popular Culture 40, no. 3 (June 2007): 556558.
Review of Simon Ottenberg, Editor, “The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary
Art,” Anthropology Review Database (April 5, 2007). Electronic Document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2080
Review of John Romer, “The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited,” Library Journal
132, no. 6 (April 1, 2007): 103.
Review of Heinz Halm, “The Arabs: A Short History,” Library Journal 132, no. 4
(March 1, 2007): 94.
Review of Michael B. Oren, “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East,
1776 to Present,” Library Journal 132, no. 1 (January 2007): 124-125.
2006
Review of Thomas K. Seligman and Kristyne Loughran, Editors, “Art of Being Tuareg:
Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,” MultiCultural Review 15, no. 4 (Winter
2006): 55-56.
Review of Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie (illus.), “Aya,” Library JournalXpress Reviews (December 19, 2006). Electronic Document.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6401099.html
Review of Michael Balter, “The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological
Journey to the Dawn of Civilization,” Anthropology Review Database
(November 27, 2006). Electronic Document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2718
Review of Frank Pope, “Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archaeology, and Greed
off the Coast of Vietnam,” Library Journal 131, no. 19 (November 15, 2006):
79.
Review of Marjane Satrapi, “Chicken with Plums,” Library Journal-Xpress Reviews
(June 20, 2006). Electronic Document.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6345344.html
Profiles, Thanks & Letters to the Editor
2007
“Against the Grain People Profile: Melissa K. Aho,” Against the Grain 19, no. 4
(September 2007): 53.
Special Thanks. “Teachers and Students Make a Difference in Sri Lanka,” Education
About Asia 12, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 45.
2005
Letter to the Editor. “Moving On,” Information Outlook 9, no. 7 (July 2005): 6.