Ms. Rebecca Fitzsimmons
Special Collections Librarian
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Rebecca Fitzsimmons is a Special Collections Librarian at Illinois State University. She is the curator of the Children’s and Historical Textbooks Collection and works extensively with the Rare Books and Manuscripts collections. She provides instruction, reference, and collection development services and engages in a variety of digital projects and initiatives in the library.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Rare books and manuscripts, photography, art and art history, visual literacy, digital humanities, and exhibit curation
M.L.I.S. (Master of Library and Information Science) Digital collections, digitization, academic librarianship
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
MFA Art photography
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, IL
BFA Photography
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York
Performances and Exhibits
25th & Change: The History of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Annual Symposium
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
WGSS, Milner Library. August 2022 - April 2022
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
WGSS, Milner Library. August 2022 - April 2022
Collaborative Communities of Women: ISNU and YWCA from the 1870s
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Erin Wilcox.
ISU, YWCA, McLean County Museum of History. August 2022 - 2023
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Erin Wilcox.
ISU, YWCA, McLean County Museum of History. August 2022 - 2023
WGSS at 50: A Celebration of ISU's Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Program
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Maria Tudela.
ISU Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Milner Library. January 2022 - May 2024
Kyle Ciani, April Anderson-Zorn, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Maria Tudela.
ISU Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Milner Library. January 2022 - May 2024
Patterns Past and Present: Arts of Panama
Susan Cooksey, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons.
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. 2014 - 2014
Susan Cooksey, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons.
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida. 2014 - 2014
Book, Chapter
Uncharted waters: Mapping a vision for student success
Mallory Jallas, Christine Elizabeth Fary, Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Susan Rose Franzen, Casandra Thayer-Styes, Sarah Woodhouse French.
Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Emerging Profession, ACRL Press
Presentations
Engaging students in collaborative collection development and authentic learning through archives and exhibit work
Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
Light It Up! Summer Symposium, Online, June 14, 2024
Through the Lens of Time: Capturing the Ephemeral Magic of the Circus
Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
PCA 2024 National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 28, 2024
Introducing the Digital Scholarship Lab
Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons, Rachel Scott.
2024 Teaching and Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 10, 2024
Transforming Collaborative Collection Development and Pedagogical Practice: Connecting Art and Special Collections to Authentic Student Learning
Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Heather Koopmans.
ARLIS/NA 51st Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, April 20, 2023
Confronting National Imagination: American Identity and Hand-Me-Down History
Caitlin Stewart, Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
History - Social Sciences Teacher Symposium, Normal, IL, February, 2022
Arts and Special Collections Librarian Panel
Heather Koopmans, Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
Arts and Special Collections Librarian Panel, Online, October 12, 2021
Curators and Active Participants: Archives, Exhibits, Engagement, and Outreach Through Teaching
Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons.
ARLIS/NA 49th Annual Conference, Online, May 11, 2021
Gathering Online: Leveraging Tools for Instruction and Group Work in the Classroom and Beyond
Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
California Conference on Library Instruction: Same, but Different, Online, May 1, 2021
At the Circus: Sawdust, Strength, and Suffrage
Rebecca Fitzsimmons.
History and Social Sciences Teacher Symposium, Normal, IL, February, 2020
Engaging and Inspiring: Promoting Archives Through Social Interaction
Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference: Working Archives: A Labor of Love, Morgantown, WV, April 12, 2019
Women and Labor: Facing Challenges in the 20th Century,
Rebecca Lynn Fitzsimmons.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference: Working Archives: A Labor of Love, Morgantown, WV, April 12, 2019