As a librarian and researcher, Joe understands the profound importance of connecting learners with ethical systems, professional competencies and habits of mind that will allow them to critically engage with their own work and the institutions in which many of them will be embedded. Please find Joe’s teaching history below, and in his CV.

Adjunct Instructor/GA – 2018-2022

School of Information Science & Learning Technology , University of Missouri- Columbia

Teaching includes both undergraduate courses on foundations of information literacy, as well as graduate level courses for professional library workers focused on reference and adult services. Includes the following:

Foundations of Library and Information Science (ISLT 7305)

Information Literacy (ISLT 2222)

Adult Services in Libraries (ISLT 9435)

Adjunct Instructor – 2016- 2019

IS/IC Division, University of Kentucky- Lexington, KY

Courses focused on graduate education in reference and information seeking as well as undergraduate courses on technology in information services. Includes the following:

Reference Services (LIS 621) 

Information Seeking (LIS 601)

Technologies for Information Services (IS 201/ICT 201)

Intellectual Freedom Committee Trainer- 2016- present

Missouri Library Association, Intellectual Freedom Committee

As part of the MLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, Joe travels across Missouri offering workshops to libraries about how to contend with and fight back against challenges to collections. These workshops typically last between 1-3 hours, depending on the preferences and needs of trainees, and have also been offered via AMIGOS webinar. Recent trainings below:

Kohlburn, J, & R. Brandel. Freedom Challenged Workshop MLA-IFC for Municipal Library Consortium, Richmond Heights, MO. November 11, 2022.

Kohlburn, J.  Freedom Challenged Workshop MLA-IFC for Missouri Library Association Annual Conference. September 28, 2022.

Kohlburn, J.  Freedom Challenged Workshop. MLA-IFC for Jefferson County Library System. September 20, 2022.

Kohlburn, J.  Freedom Challenged Workshop. MLA-IFC for Festus Public Library. August 12, 2022.

Kohlburn, J.  Freedom Challenged Workshop”. MLA-IFC for Cape Girardeau Public Library. March 25, 2022.

Faculty Librarian- 2014-present

Jefferson College Library

Teaching includes college experience courses, library use Instruction in 50-70 individual classes per academic year. Most commonly, college experience, english composition, sociology, psychology, business management, music literature, studio art and art history, biology, and ecology. These “one-shot” sessions typically include orientation with library research resources, particular academic skills and habits (e.g. Information Literacy, media literacy, citation).