Staff Directory
College of Sciences: Social Sciences and Nicholson School of CommunicationRachel joined UCF libraries as an Instruction and Engagement Librarian in 2019 after working as an English faculty member at state colleges and universities in Florida and Oregon. She has a PhD in English from the University of Oregon, an MA in Liberal Studies from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and an MLIS from Wayne State University. Her research interests include information literacy instruction, online pedagogy, and library history.
Rachel is the primary librarian for these colleges & programs:
and the secondary librarian for these programs:
Trnka, R.E., Miller, K., & Kauffman, K.F. (2024). Two academic libraries, one study: Using Project Outcome for assessment and advocacy across partner institutions. In Assessment and advocacy: Using Project Outcome for academic libraries. Association of College & Research Libraries. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1298/
Miller, K., Kaufmann, K.F., & Trnka, R.E. (2023). Measuring outcomes: Information literacy instruction assessment in a cross-institutional study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102796
Trnka, R.E. (2023). Tracing the history of discourses on professionalism in the “sister professions” of librarianship and social work in the United States. Library & Information History, 39(1). https://doi.org/10.3366/lih.2023.0136
Trnka, R.E. (2023). The role of aesthetics in redesigning accessible information literacy modules. Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 1(3). https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1179/
Edford, R. (2022). Figuring embedded librarianship: An analysis of the embedded journalist metaphor in the professional discourse. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 29(3), 244-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2022.2122854.
Edford, R., & Avila, S. (2022). The one size does not fit all approach: Case studies in modeling embedded librarianship. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 16(2), 94-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533290X.2022.2112800
Edford, R. (2019). Testimony, objectivism, and poetic form in Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust. Interactions, 28(1), 13-26. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1302/
Edford, R. (2018). Revisiting A Handmaid’s Tale in an age of post-truth politics. Relevant Rhetoric: A New Journal of Rhetorical Studies, 8. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucfscholar/1303/
Edford, R. (2014). Forms of identity in Gwendolyn Brooks’s World War II poems. College Literature, 40(4), 471-493. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2014.0052
Edford, R. (2007). The elegance of The Elegant Universe: Unity, beauty, and harmony in Brian Greene’s popularization of Superstring Theory. Public Understanding of Science, 16(4), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662505061882
Edford, R. (2021). Lights, camera, action: Tips and tricks for librarian videographers and video managers. Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2020 (pp.374-383). https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12470905
Edford, R. (2021, Fall). Tips for teaching in an active learning classroom (ALC). Association of College & Research Libraries Instruction Section Newsletter, 38(2), 2. https://acrl.ala.org/IS/wp-content/uploads/is_fall2021.pdf
Edford, R. (2019). Peer review of teaching for instruction librarians: An annotated bibliography. Codex: The Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries, 5(3), 59-74. http://journal.acrlla.org/index.php/codex/article/view/167
Trnka, R.E. (2024). Review of Integrating pop culture into the academic library, by M.E. Johnson, T.C. Weeks, and J.P. Davis. Journal of New Librarianship, 9(1), 125-128. https://doi.org/10.33011/newlibs/15/13