Education:
Sarah Lawrence College, Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Arts
Long Island University, Master of Science, Library & Information Science
CUNY Graduate Center, Master of Liberal Arts, Liberal Studies (in progress)

Awards:
2024 ARLIES (ARL) Best Free-Form Film for "Handsome Dan’s Favorite Places, Episode 3: Bass Library" by Kassandra Haro and Kelly Blanchat.
2017 ALCTS Outstanding Publication of the Year for “Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management" by Alana Verminski and Kelly Marie Blanchat. ALA Neal-Schulman.

Publications:
Blanchat, Kelly Marie, et al. "If You Build It, They Will Get a Tote Bag: Reimagining a University Library's Workshops Through a Collaborative Incentive Program." portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 25 No. 1, 2025, p. 35-53.

Blanchat, Kelly, and Caitlin Meyer. "Collaborative Design on a Dime: A Centralized Approach to Implement Videos for Library Outreach and Instruction." Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): 19-34.

Blanchat, Kelly Marie. “Facilitate Then Curate: Highlighting Student & BIPOC Voices in the Library Collection with the Reading Resilience Project.” In Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Outreach, Engagement, and Use with BIPOC Students. ACRL Press. September 2024.

Blanchat, Kelly Marie and Laura Sider. “Reference with a Gimmick: A Pilot Program to Promote Library Services.” Marketing Libraries Journal MLJ Vol. 4 No. 1 (2020), pp. 33-47.

Blanchat, Kelly Marie and Caitlin Meyer. “COV-Ed: Know Your Sources.” The Yale School of Medicine.

Blanchat, Kelly Marie. “Altmetrics and Information Literacy.” American Library Association ACRL Instruction Section, Instructional Technologies: Tips and Trends (2019).

Blanchat, Kelly Marie. “Beyond COUNTER-Compliant: Ways to Assess E-Resources Reporting Tools.” The Serials Librarian Vol. 74. No. 1 - 4 (2018), pp. 1-7.

Verminski, Alana and Kelly Marie Blanchat. “Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Management.” ALA Neal-Schulman (2017).

Willoughby, Lydia and Kelly Marie Blanchat. “Social Justify Your Lesson Plan: How to Use Twitter to Make Pop Culture Scholarly.” In Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, edited by Kelly McElroy and Nicole Pagowsky, 2: 207-214. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries (2016).

Blanchat, Kelly Marie. "Optimizing KBART Guidelines to Restore Perpetual Access." Collection Building Vol. 34. No. 1 (2015), pp. 13-16.

Blanchat, Kelly Marie and Meghan Brooks. “Collecting Cats: Library Lessons from Neko Atsume.” ACRLog (2015).

Contributor to:
Shotick, Kimberly. “Designing for Everyone: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Equity in Online Instruction.” Universal Design for Learning in Academic Libraries: Theory into Practice. Association of College and Research Libraries (2024).

Association of College and Research Libraries, Literatures in English Section. “Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, Research Competencies in Writing and Literature.” Adopted by the ACRL Board of Directors, 9 November 2021. Chicago, IL: American Library Association.

Select Conference Presentations:
“Teaching the Teachers: The Video Tutorial Immersion Program for Library Staff.” Presented with Caitlin Meyer. ACRL Distance & Online Learning. Online poster Session. April 2024.

“Different Schools, Different Tools: Approaches for Teaching in Multiple Modalities Across a Large Academic Library System.” Presented with Caitlin Meyer and Tess Colwell. ALA Core. Online conference presentation. March 2024.

“Your friend, @basslibrary.” Yale Office of Public Affairs and Communiation (OPAC). Social Media Meet-Up. Online presentation. February 2024.

“Incentivize Your Programming: Launching a Workshop Incentive Program Across Multiple Libraries.” Presented with Tess Colwell and Jennifer Snow. ACRL New England/NELIG Joint Annual Conference. Online conference presentation. June 2022.

“Here Today, Analog-ish Tomorrow.” ACRL NELIG Winter Program. Online conference presentation. January 2022.

“The Missing Emoji: Teaching Information Literacy Skills Outside of Academia.” UNC Greensboro Virtual Learning Community Meeting. Online workshop. December 2022.

“The Librarian as Video Editor and Zoom Emcee.” Distance Library Services Conference. Online conference presentation. November 2020.

“The Internet Names Things.” ACRL NELIG Winter Program. Conference presentation. December 2018.

“Beyond COUNTER-Compliant: Ways to Assess E-Resources Reporting Tools.” NASIG Conference. Paper presentation. June 2017.

“Making a Better Electronic Resource with… Internet Culture?” ALA Annual, Meeting of the LITA/ALCTS Electronic Resources Management Interest Group. Panel presentation. June 2017.

“So You Want to Do User Testing: Operationalizing a Plan.” Presented with Denise Hersey. NEASIST: Service Design: The Holisitic Experience. Conference workshop. January 2017.

“Social Media as Game Strategy: Twitter in the #InfoLit Instruction Session.” Presented with Lydia Willoughby. SUNYLA Annual Conference. Conference presentation. June 2015.