Eva Sclippa

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Contact Info

Visual Arts Librarian

Mugar Memorial Library

Eva Sclippa (she/they) joined the BU Libraries team in 2024 and currently provides information literacy instruction, research support, and collection development services to students, faculty, and staff in the areas of the visual arts, art history, and architecture. Her academic background is in art history, with a particular interest in medieval illuminated manuscripts, and she comes to the position from arts and humanities liaison librarianship, including four years as the art librarian at Alfred University.  

Eva is passionate about inclusive, accessible instruction, and among other initiatives has presented on spearheading the creation of an inclusive instruction community of practice at UNC Wilmington. Her other professional interests include media literacy, events programming, and the incorporation of games and play into the classroom.

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Publications

Sclippa, Eva. “Lie versus Lie: Disassembling Disinformation Piece by Piece.” LOEX Proceedings, 2020. 

Crowe, Stephanie and Eva Sclippa, editors. Games and Gamification in Academic Libraries. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2020. 

Sclippa, Eva, Rebecca Baugnon, Stephanie Crowe, Jason Fleming, and Peter Fritzler. “Dewey Decimated!: Creating an Immersive Escape Room from Beginning to End.” In Gamification in Academic Libraries, ed. Stephanie Crowe and Eva Sclippa (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2020), 265-282. 

Sullivan, Brian T., Trevor Riley, and Eva Sclippa. “Stirring Up Magic with Personal Librarians.” In The Library Outreach Cookbook, ed. Ryan L. Sittler and Terra J. Rogerson (ACRL, 2020). 

Sclippa, Eva. “Parker Library on the Web,” ARLIS/NA’s Multimedia & Technology Reviews, October 2018, https://www.arlisna.org/publications/multimedia-technology-reviews/1569-parker-library-on-the-web 

Sullivan, Brian, Eva Sclippa and Trevor Riley. “Librarians, the Gathering: Designing and Publicizing a Personal Librarian Program,” Library Journal Academic Newswire, February 2016, http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/02/library-services/librarians-the-gathering-designing-and-publicizing-a-personal-librarian-program-peer-to-peer-review/ 

Gendron, Heather and Eva Sclippa. “Where Visual and Information Literacies Meet: Redesigning Research Skills Teaching and Assessment for Large Art History Survey Courses,” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 33, no. 2 (September 2014): 327-344. 

Education

BA, Furman University (Art History)
MLS, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
MA, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Art History)

Subject Area Expertise

Art, Art History

Responsibilities

Library instruction, research support, and collection development for departments and programs related to the visual arts, art history, and architecture.

Language expertise

  • Spanish

Collections