Publications

Keynote and invited talks

I’ve done a fair few over the years, but rarely recorded (at least I don’t have them)! My first was at a conference in Denver, Colorado in 2010 (A Reference Renaissance 2010: Inventing the Future), the next one I’ve got coming up is at LILAC 2024 in Leeds, UK.

Peer Reviewed Articles / Papers

Walsh A. (2019) “Giving permission for adults to play”, The Journal of Play in Adulthood. 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.5920/jpa.565

Walsh, Andrew (2018) Giving Permission to Play in Higher Education. In: 4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, pp. 329-336. ISBN 9788490486900 (Talk and peer-reviewed paper.) Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34550/

Walsh, Andrew (2015) Playful Information Literacy: Play and information Literacy in Higher Education. Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, 7 (1). pp. 80-94. ISSN 1890-5900. Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/26752/

Walsh, Andrew (2014) The potential for using gamification in academic libraries in order to increase student engagement and achievement. Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, 6 (1). pp. 39-51. ISSN 1890-5900. Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/21134/

Walsh, Andrew (2014) SEEK!: creating and crowdfunding a game-based open educational resource to improve information literacy. Insights, 27 (1). pp. 63-66. ISSN 2048-7754

Walsh, Andrew (2012) Mobile Information Literacy: a preliminary outline of information behaviour in a mobile environment. Journal of information literacy, 6 (2). pp. 56-69. ISSN 1750-5968

Sharman, Alison and Walsh, Andrew (2012) Roving librarian at a mid-sized, UK based University. Library Technology Reports, 48 (8). pp. 28-34. ISSN 0024-2586

Walsh, Andrew (2011) Blurring the boundaries between our physical and electronic libraries: Location aware technologies; QR codes and RFID tags. The Electronic Library, 29 (4). pp. 429-437. ISSN 0264-0473

Walsh, Andrew (2010) QR Codes – using mobile phones to deliver library instruction and help at the point of need. Journal of information literacy, 3 (1). pp. 55-65. ISSN 1750-5968

Walsh, Andrew (2010) Mobile phone services and UK Higher Education students, what do they want from the library? Library and Information Research, 34 (106). pp. 22-36. ISSN 1756-1086

Walsh, Andrew (2009) Information Literacy Assessment: Where do we start? Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 41 (1). pp. 19-28. ISSN 0961-0006

Recent Book Chapters

Walsh, Andrew (2019) Playful Training. In: Playful Learning: Events and Activities to Engage Adults.   Routledge, NY.

Walsh, Andrew and Clementson, Jonny (2017) Reasons to play in Higher Education. In: The Power of Play – Voices from the Play Community. CounterPlay, Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 181-187. ISBN 9788799975204. Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/31686/

Selected Books

Aston, Sam & Walsh, Andrew (2021) Library Pedagogies: Personal reflections from library practitioners. ISBN 9781911500186

Walsh, Andrew (2020) Forgotten Lancashire folk and fairy tales. ISBN 9781911500162

Walsh, Andrew (2019) Forgotten Yorkshire folk and fairy tales. ISBN 9781911500155

Walsh, Andrew (2018) The Librarians Book on Teaching Through Games and Play. ISBN 9781911500070

Walsh, Andrew (2018) The Mini Book of Teaching Tips for Librarians. 2nd Edition. ISBN 9781911500117

Walsh, Andrew and Clement, Ellie (2015) Inspiring, Innovative and Creative Library Interventions: An i2c2 Compendium. Innovative Libraries, Huddersfield, UK. ISBN 9780957665231

Green, Gary, Walsh, Andrew and Filhol, Josh (2014) The Library A to Z. Innovative Libraries, Huddersfield, UK. ISBN 9780957665293. Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/21989/

Walsh, Andrew and Coonan, Emma (2013) Only Connect … Discovery pathways, library explorations, and the information adventure. Innovative Libraries, Huddersfield. ISBN 9780957665200. Available at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17339/

Walsh, Andrew (2012) Using Mobile Technology to Deliver Library Services: A Handbook. Facet, London.