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JANET BRENNAN CROFT Liaison to School of Communication and Information

and Librarian for Copyright and Disability Services

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey [email protected]; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-3586

EDUCATION Master of Library Science.

Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, 1983. American Library

Association accredited.

• Margaret I. Rufsvold Fellowship

Bachelor of Arts.

Indiana University, 1982. Double major: Classical Civilization and English.

• National Merit Scholarship

• Little 500 Scholarship

• David and Jenny Curry Classical Studies Scholarship

PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY EXPERIENCE Liaison to the School of Communication and Information and Librarian for

Copyright and Disability Services, July 2018-present. Head of Access and Delivery

Services, September 2014 to June 2018. New Brunswick Libraries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

169 College Avenue, New Brunswick NJ 08901

As Liaison to the School of Communication and Information and Librarian for Copyright

and Disability Services:

• Liaison services to SC&I including instruction, research assistance, and outreach.

• Collection development for related subject areas and for juvenile collection.

• Provide regular in-person, phone, and chat reference.

• Lead Copyright Team in responding to patron copyright questions.

• Develop internal and external copyright education program, for New Brunswick

libraries and users.

• Partner with Office of Disabilities Services to develop and assess library services.

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• Consult on space and signage projects to ensure Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

compliance.

• Selected committees:

o Scholarly and Professional Activity Committee (elected, 2017-2020; co-chair,

2018-2019)

o Scholarly Communication Team (2018-present)

o OIT Space Planning Committee (chair, Staff Spaces sub-committee, 2017-2019)

o Communication and Events team (2019-present)

• Selected accomplishments:

o Worked with Engineering student team to develop and install a 3-D printed

tactile map of the main library ground floor at the welcome desk (2018).

o Worked with Landscape Architecture students developing proposals for

renovation projects in the Chang and Art Libraries, with an emphasis on signage

and observing user behavior (2018-2019).

o Developed and delivered “Copyright (and a bit about Plagiarism) in Five

Minutes” program for transfer student cohorts (2018-2019).

o Developing procedures, infrastructure, and campus partnerships for compliance

with accessibility mandates for paper and electronic reserves (2016-present).

o Assessed memorandum of agreement for project to digitize Indian poetry

archive for compliance with Indian copyright laws and respect for author rights

(2019).

o Facilitated acquisition of major gift of children’s literature by international

authors; working to develop retention criteria, research guides, outreach events,

and other projects with Library and Information Science students and faculty

(2018-present).

• Selected external committees

o American Library Association: Copyright Legislation, Education, and Advisory

Network (2018-present)

As Head of Access and Delivery Services:

• Facilitated physical access to the collections of the University Libraries for local and

remote users by managing circulation (initially Sirsi Workflows; migrated to Ex

Libris/Alma in 2018), document delivery, inter-library loan (through October 2016),

stacks management, remote storage, billing, reserves, imaging and digitization,

microforms, preservation, and mailroom functions of the New Brunswick campuses

libraries, and coordinated with other Rutgers University locations.

• Developed, planned, implemented, and assessed services in support of curricular and

research needs of the University community.

• Supervised, trained, and evaluated up to seven full-time staff. Coordinated training and

education to model and maintain high, user-centric standards of service.

• Analyzed use of on-site collection, document delivery, and interlibrary borrowing to

help guide collection development and management planning.

• Participated in ongoing and strategic planning related to library use, collection

distribution, and service provision.


• Represented the Libraries with state and national library cooperatives including Big Ten

Academic Alliance (BTAA), OCLC’s SHARES program, New Jersey Library Network,

Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey (VALE-NJ), Pennsylvania

Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI), and RapidILL.

• Selected Library committees:

o Access Services Committee (chair, 2014-2018)

o Ex Libris Implementation Task Force, Fulfillment Team (2017-2018)

o Hathi Trust Public Services Task Force

o ILL Data Analysis Task Force (co-chair 2015-2016)

o Library Information Systems Committee

o New Brunswick Libraries Research Spaces Team

o New Brunswick Libraries Scholarly Communications and Open Access Team

o Personnel Policy and Affirmative Action Committee (elected, 2017)

o Planning and Coordinating Committee

o Research and Instructional Services New Brunswick Libraries Experience Team

o Research and Instructional Services New Brunswick Libraries Reorganization

Task Force

o Research and Instructional Services New Brunswick Libraries

o Scholarly Communication and Open Access Team

o Social Media Task Force

o Steering Group for Faculty Groups

o User Services Council

o User Study Survey Committee

• Selected external committees:

o Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI) Distributed Print

Archive Project Team, 2014-2017

o Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA, formerly CIC) ILL Directors, Preservation

Officers groups, 2014-2018

• Selected accomplishments:

o Integrated Microforms unit with Imaging and Digitization unit; merged these

two units and Preservation in a new location, increasing synergy and improving

staffing efficiencies.

o Worked on Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc. (PALCI) project on

distributed microfilm holdings archives for major national and regional

newspapers, and distributed print holdings archives for popular magazines.

o Microforms inventory; moved microcards and other microforms to storage.

o Worked with Collection Development to draft recommended procedures for

relocation to storage, regional cooperative obligations, and mending and

preservation processes.

o Developed signage template for in-house printing of floor directories; began

updating project with elevators in Alexander Library; worked on maps project.

o Assessed data, made recommendations, and revised policies for interlibrary loan

rule-of-five regulation compliance in recently merged university libraries


environment; developed article purchase program and implemented

administrative policy that eliminated patron payments for permission fees.

o Participated in implementation of limited access late night policies and

development of year-round 24/5 staffing at two locations. As part of these

projects, improved building and desk hour collection procedures and inclement

weather staffing procedures.

o Participated in space and logistics planning for closure of Physics and Science

and Engineering Research Center branch locations, siting of new adaptive

technology lab in Alexander Library, multiple mold remediation projects in

Physics and Douglass libraries, the acquisition of the Center for Alcohol Studies

departmental library and closure of its physical location, and major collection

weeding and space repurposing projects at the Alexander, Library of Science and

Medicine, and Chang libraries.

o Participated in development and implementation of library-wide group study

room reservation system and building and service desk hours interface using

LibCal platform.

o Updated and clarified library policies on bulletin boards and brochure

distribution, and on study halls and proctoring tests.

o Developed partnerships with campus Office of Instructional Technology and

Office of Disability Services to support processes for making electronic reserve

readings accessible and purchase and provide access to SensusAccess, and with

Educational Opportunity Fund to manage distribution of their textbooks.

o Reviewed cash handling, fines, and waivers processes across all campuses;

updated procedures to increase accountability and reduce cash handling.

Head of Access and Delivery Services, January 2001 to August 2014. Assistant

Professor, January 2001 to June 2007; Associate Professor, July 2007 to August 2014. Bizzell Memorial Library, University of Oklahoma.

401 West Brooks, Norman OK 73019-6030

• Facilitated physical access to the collections of the university libraries for local and

remote users by managing circulation (initially Sirsi Workflows system, migrated to Ex

Libris/Alma in 2014), document delivery, inter-library loan, stacks management, on- and

off-campus storage, billing, reserves (paper, electronic, and textbook), audiovisual

material and equipment lending, and building security functions of the library.

• Defined and articulated the role, goals, needs, and policies of the Access and Delivery

Services Department. Determined decision-making priorities for budgetary matters such

as equipment and personnel. Collected and analyzed statistics.

• Supervised, trained, and evaluated one librarian and nine full-time staff.

• Managed two remote, one on-campus, and one in-house collection storage locations.

• Liaisoned with branch libraries and special collections concerning circulation functions.

• Subject librarian/liaison for School of Library and Information Science, 2011-2013.

• Answered copyright and author’s rights questions for university staff, faculty, and

patrons.


• Selected Library Committees:

o Business Continuity Plan/Emergency and Disaster Plan Revision Committee

2011-2013

o Circulation Committee 2001- 2014 (chair)

o Collection Development Committee 2001-2014

o Dean’s Conference Committee 2001-2003, 2009-2012

o Faculty Development Committee 2004-2006 (chair 2005-2006)

o Galileo’s World Exhibit Planning Committee 2013-2014

o Interlibrary Loan Software Committee 2003

o Lower Level One Implementation Committee 2013 (chair)

o Master Planning Committee 2013-2014

o Safety and Security Task Force 2004

o Search Committees, various library positions

o Signage Task Force 2009 (chair)

o Space and Physical Environment Task Force 2004-2005 (chair)

o Space Task Force 2011 (chair)

o Strategic Planning Committee 2002-2003

o Tornado Emergency Response Team 2014

• Selected Campus Committees:

o Campus Shared Leave Committee 2012-2014

o Continuing Education Council 2001-2004

o Copyright Committee 2009-2011

o Faculty Development Awards Committee 2011-2013 (chair 2012-13)

o Faculty Senate 2005-2008

o Provost’s Advisory Committee on Women’s Issues 2004-2007 (co-chair 2005-06)

o Search Committee, Dean of Libraries 2011-2012

o Sooner ID Re-Carding Subcommittee 2004-2005

Selected major accomplishments:

• Designed and implemented new signage program for Bizzell Library stairwells,

entrances, and elevators.

• Developed security procedures for 24/7 Hours during finals weeks.

• Initiated library-wide digital security camera installation and supplementation of

library security personnel with outside professionals.

• Reorganized and streamlined shelving procedures, resulting in 24-hour turnaround

for returned books.

• Liaisoned with libraries providing service to Advanced Programs patrons through

Pacific Area Command Library Steering Committee; attended international meetings

twice as University of Oklahoma representative.

• Developed procedures for sending bills and fines to bursar automatically.


• Conducted workshops and instruction sessions on the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act,

copyright issues, EndNote bibliographic management system, author’s rights, and

other topics for library staff and users.

• Supervised integration of Limited Access, Library Annex, Searching, and Document

Delivery requests into ILLiad system.

• Planned space and access procedures for Textbooks on Reserve program. Developed

statistics reporting. In 2011, sole supervision of this program was moved to this

department from Collection Development. Reserves Department honored by

University of Oklahoma Student Association for responsiveness to student needs.

• Revitalized document delivery program to include on-campus delivery and in-library

pickup.

• Developed and implemented procedures for reserving group study rooms.

• Coordinated successful effort to obtain a Golden Age science fiction and mystery

collection for Special Collections.

• Collaborated on project to install a meditation labyrinth using a light projection

system in the library; gained institutional review board approval for associated

survey; awarded Ed Cline Faculty Senate award to fund construction of second unit.

• Space and logistics planning and implementation:

o Planned shelving and other furnishings for two new remote storage facilities and

reorganized two existing spaces for storage; developed procedures for

relocating and retrieving items. Oversaw project to de-acquisition JSTOR print

materials. Initiated reorganization of storage facilities using acquisition order

bar-coding.

o Relocated and redesigned child-friendly children’s books area.

o Reopened a section of the library decks which had been closed for over 20 years,

creating additional open shelving space and facilitating self-service wheelchair

access to the Great Reading Room.

o Planned temporary move of Architecture branch library collections during

renovation of Gould Hall.

o Closed the Chemistry-Mathematics and Physics-Astronomy branch libraries and

incorporated their materials into the Bizzell and storage collections.

o Designed renovation of basement storage for the Western History Collections.

o Planned renovation of library meeting room for the Boorstin Collection.

o Planned temporary move of Bizzell Library special collections (Bass, Nichols,

and History of Science) during renovation of air handling and fire suppression

systems.

o Relocated and removed all collections, equipment, furniture, personnel, and

services on Lower Level 1 West for the Collaborative Learning Center

renovation.


Library Director (Associate Professor), August 1993 to December 2000; Assistant

Library Director, May 1993 to August 1993

Warden Memorial Library, Martin Methodist College.

433 West Madison, Pulaski TN 38478.

• Upgraded library of small liberal arts college (approximately 500 students at that time)

making transition from two-year to four-year degree program, ensuring that library met

standards set by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and Association

of College and Research Libraries.

• During successful SACS re-accreditation visit, served on Library and Learning

Resources Committee, Arrangements Committee, and Steering Committee, and chaired

Physical and Financial Resources Committee; wrote portions of self-study dealing with

library and managed Document Room for the visiting team.

• Doubled shelving space and print resources in library; more than tripled non-print

collections; increased library computer resources from one stand-alone word processing

terminal to twenty-three networked workstations, three servers, and four additional

word processing terminals.

• Retrospective conversion: planned and implemented retrospective conversion and

automation project using SIRS Mandarin system. Prepared requests for proposals; chose

system and recon vendor; prepared catalog for conversion; managed total transition

from card catalog to online public access system with remote web-based access.

• Managed acquisition of Internet access, networked CD-ROM references, and web-based

databases; directed development and construction of library web page. Extended library

intranet system to provide building faculty with network/Internet access.

• Acquired and cataloged (using OCLC Cat-CD system) all print and non-print materials

to support new majors and electives. Worked closely with faculty; routed reviews and

new book notices.

• Managed gifts, including major gift for Judaica from the Raymond Zimmerman fund.

• Developed classroom bibliographic instruction programs; performed majority of

instruction. Worked at circulation/reference desk daily. Wrote research guides,

bibliographies, and library guides for all categories of users. Some examples:

o Current Controversies: Researching Topics in the News

o Poems, Plays, Essays, and Short Stories: Locating Shorter Literary Works

o The Fugitives and the Agrarians: Nashville Area Literary Movements of the

Early Twentieth Century

o Resources for the Study of Nature Writing

o Costume and Clothing: Resources for Theatre and Performing Arts

o Sports Law

• Served as Building Manager for the Johnston Center classroom, office, and library

building. Oversight and liaison for maintenance and security. Developed and

maintained safety and security plan. Performed safety and maintenance inspections on a

regular basis. Involved in short and long range planning for building and campus.

• Performed all other duties of a director, including budgeting and planning; developing

policies and procedures; departmental assessments; and hiring, scheduling, training,


supervision, and evaluation of one professional and six to eight clerical staff, and four to

ten work-study students.

• Committees and campus organizations: Technology Task Force; Library Committee;

Curriculum and Academic Policies Committee; Building and Safety Committee; Drama

Club (Costume Designer).

Acquisitions Clerk, February 1993 to May 1993 (part time)

Wheeler Basin Regional Library.

504 Cherry St. NE, Decatur AL 35602.

• Checked orders against regional database; added new copies to shelf list; prepared card

sets for branch libraries using Bibliofile; some original cataloging.

• Initiated and carried through project to clear three-year backlog of branch library

discards from main card catalog.

Substitute Cataloger, October 1991 (part time); Adult Services Librarian, July 1985 to

November 1988; Volunteer, November 1984 to June 1985

Sewickley Public Library

Thorn and Broad Streets, Sewickley PA 15143

As Substitute Cataloger:

• Cataloged new and gift books using Bibliofile.

As Adult Services Librarian:

• Provided reference services to the general public.

• Hired and supervised 1.5 full time equivalent student shelvers.

• Corrected card catalog problems.

• Created book lists and library guides.

• Accepted and cataloged gift items; selected and cataloged non-print items.

• Organized and presented at least one adult program series per year, and compiled

related book lists. Notable series included craft programs, parenting issues.

As Volunteer:

• Processed books; substituted at Reference Desk as needed.

Substitute Cataloger, April 1990 to August 1990 (part time); Cataloger/Librarian, June

1988 to May 1989 (part time) Moon Township Public Library

1000 Beaver Grade Road, Coraopolis PA 15108

• Cataloged new and gift books using Follett’s Quick Card.

• Participated in automation using Follett’s Circulation Plus, clearing up all problems with

bar codes.

• Supervised processing of cataloged books.

• Maintained card catalog, supervised filing, and kept statistics.


Reference Librarian, April 1985 to June 1985 (part time)

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Business Division

One Mellon Bank Center, Pittsburgh PA 15217

• Provided reference services to Pittsburgh’s business community and general public.

• Assisted library’s database coordinator with searches on DIALOG and WESTLAW.

Substitute Librarian, March 1985 to April 1985 (part time) Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213

• Services as needed; primarily worked in telephone quick reference department.

Reference Librarian, August 1983 to August 1984

Jenner and Block

353 N. Clark St., Chicago IL 60654

• Provided reference services to over 200 lawyers and paralegals in major Chicago firm;

included database searches on LEXIS and DIALOG.

• Responsible for interlibrary loan through OCLC and to other firms.

• Performed copy cataloging; prepared acquisitions newsletter.

• Supervised stack maintenance, library messenger service, circulation, shelving, and

other duties of 2.5 full time equivalent support staff.

• Prepared manual of reference and technical procedures.


SCHOLARSHIP Divided into “Librarianship and Bibliography” and “Literary and Popular Culture Criticism,” and listed

in reverse chronological order within each sub-section. Many of the shorter works are available at

Academia.edu or at the other sites listed on the last page of this CV. DOI numbers and URLs are

provided where available.

Librarianship and Bibliography Books:

• Croft, Janet Brennan. Legal Solutions in Electronic Reserves and the Electronic Delivery of

Interlibrary Loan. Haworth Press, 2004. Published simultaneously as Journal of Interlibrary

Loan, Document Delivery and Information Supply, 14(3) (2004).

Refereed articles: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Bibliographic Resources for Guiding Research on J.R.R. Tolkien.”

Reference Reviews, vol. 31, no. 4, 2017, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1108/RR-07-2016-0193

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Bibliographic Resources for Literature Searches on J.R.R Tolkien.”

Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 3, no. 1, article 2, 2016. http://scholar.valpo.edu/

journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss1/2/

• Zucker, Donna M., Jeungok Choi, Matthew N. Cook, and Janet Brennan Croft. “The

Effects of Labyrinth Walking in an Academic Library.” Journal of Library Administration,

vol. 2016, 2016, pp. 1-17, doi: 10.1080/01930826.2016.1180873.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “A Basic Multi-Media Collection by and about J.R.R. Tolkien.”

Collection Building, vol. 30, no. 2, 2011, pp. 98-102.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Balancing Evolving ‘Real’ and ‘Virtual’ Patron Needs: A

Challenge for Access Services in Academic Libraries.” Journal of Access Services, vol. 3,

no. 4, 2005, pp. 13-27.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The TEACH Act and Library Services.” Journal of Access Services,

vol. 1, no. 3, 2003, pp. 5-6, doi: 10.1300/J204v01n03_02.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Molly Murphy. “Licensing and the Interlibrary Loan

Workflow.” Journal of Access Services, vol. 1, no. 2, 2002, pp. 5-14.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Model Licenses and Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery from

Electronic Resources.” Interlending and Document Delivery, vol. 29, no. 4, 2001, pp. 165-

168.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Changing Research Methods and Implications for Web Page

Design: Ranganathan Revisited.” College & Undergraduate Libraries, vol. 8, no. 1, 2001,

pp. 69-77. doi: 10.1300/J106v08n01_06

Book chapters: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Interlibrary Loan and Licensing: Tools for Proactive Contract

Management.” Licensing in Libraries: Practical and Ethical Aspects, edited by Karen Rupp-

Serrano. Haworth Press, 2005. 41-53. Published simultaneously in Journal of Library

Administration, vol. 42, no. 3/4, 2005, pp. 41-53. doi:10.1300/J111v42n03_03.


Reviews: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Copyright for Scholars: Osmosis Doesn’t Do the Trick Anymore

[Review essay].” Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy,

vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 72-75. http://journaldialogue.org/issues/v4-issue-1/copyright-for-

scholars-osmosis-doesnt-do-the-trick-anymore/. Reviewed items: Kevin L. Smith,

Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers; Kenneth

Crews, Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical

Solutions; Rebecca P. Butler, Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals; Carrie

Russell, Complete Copyright for K-12 Librarians and Educators.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb, editors. American Myth,

Folklore & Tall Tales (online version) [Review].” Reference Reviews, vol. 31, no. 8, 2017, pp.

6-9. doi: 10.1108/RR-05-2017-0115.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Julie Todaro. Mentoring A-Z [Review].” Reference and User Services

Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 3, 2016, p. 246. doi: 10.7282/T30K2BPT

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Mary Ellen Snodgrass. World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia

of History, Culture, and Social Influence [Review].” Reference Reviews, vol. 29, no. 5, 2015, p.

23. doi: 10.7282/T32F7Q84

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Lorraine Harrison. Latin for Gardeners: Over 3000 Plant Names

Explained and Explored [Review].” Reference Reviews, vol. 27, no. 7, 2013, pp. 41-42.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Adrian Room. Alternate Names of Places: A Worldwide Dictionary

[Review].” Reference Reviews, vol. 24, no. 3, 2010, p. 47.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Carolyn Hares-Stryker. The Illustrators of The Wind in the

Willows, 1908-2008 [Review].” Reference Reviews, vol. 23, no. 7, 2009, pp. 27-29.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Walt Crawford. First Have Something to Say [Review].” Oklahoma

Librarian, May/June 2008, p. 22, https://www.oklibs.org/page/OKL_Archive.

Non-refereed articles and miscellaneous publications: • Fitzsimmons, Phillip; Croft, Janet Brennan; and Dressler, Benjamin, “Mythlore:

Preserving the Past and Moving into the Future.” Faculty Articles & Research

[Southwestern Oklahoma State University], vol. 40, 2019,

https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/40.

• Fitzsimmons, Phillip and Janet Brennan Croft. “Check Your Dashboard, Your Gauges

May Be High!” Faculty Articles & Research [Southwestern Oklahoma State University], vol.

38, 2018, https://dc.swosu.edu/libraries_articles/38/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Matthew N. Cook. “Interactive Mindfulness Technology: A

Walking Labyrinth in an Academic Library.” College and Research Libraries News, 2015,

pp. 318-322. doi: 10.7282/T3SF2XXR.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Copyright and Your Library.” Occasional column in Oklahoma

Librarian. 2012-2014. www.oklibrarian.org.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Mold Fighting on a Tight Budget.” Archival Products News, vol. 4,

no. 1, 1996, pp. 1-2, 6. Reprinted in Granite State Libraries (New Hampshire State

Library), vol. 32, no. 3, May 1996.


Invited Conference Presentations and Panels: • Oberhelman, David, Tamy Burnett, Janet Brennan Croft, Kristine Larsen, David

Emerson, and Leslie Donovan. “‘We’ll hit serious research mode!’: Libraries and

Research Methods in Science Fiction and Fantasy.” Roundtable, invited. Southwest

Popular and American Culture Association conference, Albuquerque, February 17, 2017.

• Oberhelman, David, Janet Brennan Croft, Kristine Larsen, David Emerson, and Leslie

Donovan. “Popular Culture Resources and Careers: A Roundtable.” Panel discussion,

invited. University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 15, 2017

• Croft, Janet Brennan, et al. “Journal Editors Panel” and “Intellectual Property and the

Scholarly Writer.” Panels, invited. Faculty Scholarly Writing and Publishing

Colloquium. University of Oklahoma Writing Center. April 16, 2012.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “License to Fill: What do Libraries Want?” Conference

presentation. Invited. RUSA, American Library Association annual conference, Orlando,

July 2004.

Conference presentations:

• Fitzsimmons, Phillip, Janet Brennan Croft, and Ben Dressler. “Mythlore: Preserving the

Past and Moving into the Future.” Mythopoeic Society Conference, San Diego CA,

August 2019. • Fitzsimmons, Phillip and Janet Brennan Croft. “Check Your Dashboard, Your Gauges

Might be High! A Long-established Paper Journal Migrates to BePress.” Digital

Commons Heartland User Group, Hays KS, October 2018.

• Fitzsimmons, Phillip and Janet Brennan Croft. “Sometimes More is More: Mythlore and

the SWOSU Digital Archive.” Mythcon 49, Atlanta, August 2018.

• Meija, Orla, Rebecca Sloat, Gracemary Smulewitz, and Janet Brennan Croft “ILL Data

Analysis Can Inform and Influence Collection Development.” Poster session. VALE

Assessment Fair, July 2016.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Library Faculty and the Research Agenda: A Building Block for

the Successful Academic Career.” Conference presentation. Southwest/Texas Popular

Culture Association. Albuquerque NM. February 10, 2012.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. Section: “Developing your Research Agenda: How and Why, and

Tips for Getting Published.” “Getting Published: Tips and Tricks from Journal Insiders”

invited panel. Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference, April 2011.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “OU’s Textbooks on Reserve Program.” Conference presentation.

OK-Association of College and Research Libraries, Public and Access Services Interest

Group Mini-Conference. Norman, OK, June 2010.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Molly Murphy. “ILL from Electronic Sources: Legalities and

Practicalities.” Conference presentation. TexShare Interlibrary Loan Workshop, Dallas,

February 2005.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Electronic Document Delivery and the Interlibrary Loan

Workflow.” Conference presentation. Northwest Interlibrary Loan Conference, Portland

OR, September 2004.


Conference panels: • Croft, Janet Brennan, et al. “Professional Development: Journal Editor Roundtable.”

Panel. Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, April 2010.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Meet the Editor of Oklahoma Librarian.” Panel. Oklahoma Library

Association. Tulsa, April 2008.

• Croft, Janet Brennan, et al. “CV Review” Panel. Popular Culture Association, San Diego,

March 2005.

• Croft, Janet Brennan, moderator. “Special Collections in Libraries and Museums.” Panel

series. Libraries in Popular Culture and Collectibles and Collecting areas (joint

sponsors), Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, 2002-2005.

Works in progress and forthcoming:

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “A User Persona-Based Library Signage Program: Framework and

Case Studies.” Article building on my work with signage at University of Oklahoma and

Rutgers. Projected completion 2020.

• Fisher, Jason and Janet Brennan Croft, editors. Gedenkschrift (memorial volume) in honor

of David Oberhelman, on depictions of libraries and research in fantasy and science

fiction. Forthcoming from Mythopoeic Press, 2019. Will include my essay on research

methods as depicted in science fiction and fantasy.

Literary and Popular Culture Criticism Books:

• Croft, Janet Brennan. War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Praeger, 2004. Contributions to

the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 106.

Edited books: • Patterson, Nancy-Lou. Divining Tarot: Papers on Charles Williams’s The Greater Trumps

and Other Works. Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft. The Patterson

Papers Vol. V. Valleyhome Books, 2019. Includes my foreword and index.

• Patterson, Nancy-Lou. Nancy-Lou Patterson Reviews Books by and About Dorothy L. Sayers,

C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Others. Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet

Brennan Croft. The Patterson Papers Vol. IV, Valleyhome Books, 2018. Includes my

foreword.

• Patterson, Nancy-Lou. Detecting Wimsey: Papers on Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction.

Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft, Valleyhome Books, 2017. The

Patterson Papers Vol. III. Includes my introduction, bibliography, and index.

• Patterson, Nancy-Lou. Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy,

Chronicles of Narnia, and Other Works. Edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft,

Valleyhome Books, 2016. The Patterson Papers Vol. I and II. Includes my index.

• Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World

War I. Mythopoeic Society, 2015. Includes my introductory essay “‘The Purest Response

of Fantastika to the World Storm’” (1-7) and index.


• Croft, Janet Brennan and Leslie A. Donovan, editors. Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works

and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien. Mythopoeic Press, 2015. Includes co-editors’ introductory essay

“Perilous and Fair, Ancient and Modern, Luminous and Powerful” (1-7) and my index.

• Houghton, John William, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John Rateliff, and Robin

Reid, editors. Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. McFarland, 2014.

Includes my index.

• Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction

and Fantasy. 2013. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 37. Includes my

“Introduction: Forward Momentum” (1-6), index, and essay “The Soldier and the Cipher:

Miles, Mark, and the Naming Plots of Bujold’s Vorkosiverse” (61-76).

• Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language.

McFarland, 2007. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 2. Includes my

introduction, index, and essay “‘Bid the Tree Unfix his Earth-bound Root’: Themes from

Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings” (215-226).

• Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings.

Mythopoeic Press, 2004. Second edition with expanded preface, 2010. Includes my

introduction, index, and essay “Mithril Coats and Tin Ears: ‘Anticipation’ and

‘Flattening’ in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings” (63-80).

Refereed articles: Please note that submissions to Mythlore by the editor, members of the editorial board, and society board

members are subject to an additional level of anonymous peer review.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Auntie, What Ails Thee?: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black.”

Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2 (#134), 2019, pp. 117-139.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘What if I’m still there? What if I never left that clinic?’: Faërian

Drama in Buffy’s ‘Normal Again’.” Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies

Association, vol. 16, no. 2 (#48), 2018, pp. 29-51. http://www.whedonstudies.tv

/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/3._croft_-_slayage_16.2.pdf.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Doors into Elf-Mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces,

and Forewords.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 15, 2018, pp. 177-195.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Name of the Ring; or, There and Back Again.” Mythlore, vol.

35, no. 2 (#130), 2017, pp. 81-94, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol35/iss2/6/,

doi:10.7282/T3XP77CV.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Faërian Drama, without the Fairies: Two Post-Tolkienian

Examples.” Coreopsis: Journal of Myth and Theater, vol. 5, no. 2, 2016,

http://www.societyforritualarts.org/coreopsis/fall-2016-issue/faerian-drama/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Noms De Guerre: The Power of Naming in War and Conflict in

Middle-earth.” Mythlore, vol. 34, no. 1 (#127), 2015, pp. 105-115,

https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol34/iss1/9/, doi:10.7282/T3VH5QRG

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Giving Evil a Name: Buffy’s Glory, Angel’s Jasmine, Blood Magic,

and Name Magic.” Slayage: The Journal of the Joss Whedon Studies Association, vol.

12.2/13.1, no. 40/41, 2015, http://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/

croft_slayage_12.2-13.1.pdf, doi:10.7282/T3FF3V1J.


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions.” Mythlore,

vol. 32, no. 2 (#124), 2014, pp. 31-45, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol32/iss2/4/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth.”

Mythlore, vol. 30, no. 3/4 (#117/118), 2012, pp. 55-69, https://dc.swosu.edu/

mythlore/vol30/iss3/4/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Hen That Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training

Corps.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 8, 2011, pp. 97-113, doi:10.1353/tks.2011.0011.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Túrin and Aragorn: Embracing and Evading Fate.” Mythlore, vol.

29, no. 3/4 (#113/114), 2011, pp. 155-170, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol29/iss3/11/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Thread on Which Doom Hangs: Free Will, Disobedience, and

Eucatastrophe in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.” Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 1/2 (#111/112), 2010, pp.

131-150, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol29/iss1/9/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and

Rowling.” Mythlore, vol. 28, no. 1/2 (#107/108), 2009, pp. 149-163, https://dc.swosu.edu/


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Education of a Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger,

and Gendered Magic in Discworld and Potterworld.” Mythlore, vol. 27, no. 3/4

(#105/106), 2009, pp. 129-142, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol27/iss3/16/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Nice, Good, or Right: Faces of the Wise Woman in Terry

Pratchett’s ‘Witches’ Novels.” Mythlore, vol. 26, no. 3/4 (#101/102), 2008, pp. 151-164,

https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol26/iss3/11/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Walter E. Haigh, Author of a New Glossary of the Huddersfield

Dialect.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 4, 2007, pp. 184-188.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘Bid the Tree Unfix His Earth-Bound Root’: Themes from Macbeth

in The Lord of the Rings.” Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, vol. 21, 2004, pp. 47-

60.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. ““The Young Perish and the Old Linger, Withering”: J.R.R.

Tolkien on World War II.” Mythlore, vol. 92, 2004, pp. 58-71, https://dc.swosu.edu/


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Beyond The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Other Works for Children.”

World Literature Today, 2003, pp. 67-70.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Great War and Tolkien’s Memory: An Examination of World

War I Themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore, vol. 23, no. 4 (#90), 2002,

pp. 4-21, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol23/iss4/2/.

Book chapters and encyclopedia entries: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Nice, Good, or Right: Faces of the Wise Woman in Terry

Pratchett’s ‘Witches’ Novels.” CLR: Terry Pratchett, edited by Lawrence Trudeau,

Gale/Cengage, 2018. (Originally published in Mythlore.)

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Vampire Family Plot: Naming, Siring, and Identity.” After the

Avengers: From Joss Whedon’s Hottest, Newest Franchises to the Future of the Whedonverse,

edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel, PopMatters Media, 2016, pp. [25-36].

doi:10.7282/T3V98B04

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3V98B04


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “War.” A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Stuart D. Lee,

Wiley Blackwell, 2014, pp. 461-472. (Invited chapter.)

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Jackson’s Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth.”

Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s the Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy, edited by

Janice M. Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny, McFarland & Co., 2011, pp. 216-226. (Invited

chapter.)

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Golempunk Manifesto: Ownership of the Means of

Production in Pratchett’s Discworld.” Proceedings of the Upstate Steampunk Extravaganza

and Meetup, edited by Gypsey Elaine Teague, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011, pp. 3-16.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by

Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle.” Fantasy Fiction into Film: Essays, edited by Leslie

Stratyner and James R. Keller, McFarland, 2007, pp. 7-20.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Farmer Giles of Ham,” “Gríma Wormtongue,” “Haigh, Walter

E.,” “Merry,” “Pippin,” “Rankin-Bass,” and “Shakespeare.” The Tolkien Encyclopedia,

edited by Michael D. C. Drout, Routledge, 2006, p. (assorted pages).

Reviews: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Charles Williams: The Place of the Lion and War in Heaven [Briefly

Noted: Reviews].” Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2 (#134), 2019, pp. 233-234.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Anne Hiebert Alton and William C. Spruiell, editors. Discworld

and the Disciplines: Critical Approaches to the Terry Pratchett Works [Review].” Mythlore,

vol. 37, no. 1 (#133), 2018, pp. 238-242.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Briefly noted” review column, Mythlore, 2014-present: 37.1 (#133)

(2018): 254-255; 36.1 (#131) (2017): 249-50; 35.2 (#130) (2017): 199-201

doi:10.7282/T3SX6GPK; 33.2 (#126) (2015): 185-186; 33.1 (#125) (2014): 167.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Lloyd Alexander. The Chronicles of Prydain 50th Anniversary

edition [Review].” Mythprint: The Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 54, no.

4 (#383), 2018, pp. 7-8.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “George MacDonald. The Golden Key: A Victorian Fairy Tale.

Illustrations by Ruth Sanderson [Review].” Mythprint: The Quarterly Bulletin of the

Mythopoeic Society, vol. 54, no. 1, 2017, pp. 7-8, doi: 10.7282/T3SX6GPK.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Astrid Winegar. Cooking for Halflings and Monsters: 111 Comfy,

Cozy Recipes for Fantasy-Loving Souls [Review].” Mythprint: The Quarterly Bulletin of the

Mythopoeic Society, vol. 54, no. 3, 2017, pp. 9-11.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann, eds. Laughter in

Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien [Review].” Mythlore, vol.

36, no. 1 (#131), 2017, pp. 221-224, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol36/iss1/20/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. Journal review column, Mythlore, 2009-present. (Regularly

includes such titles as North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, Fastitolcalon, VII:

An Anglo-American Literary Review, and Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.) 36.1

(#131) (2017): 241-249; 35.1 (#129) (2016): 200-203; 34.2 (#128) (2016): 195-204 doi:

10.7282/T3G44SCS; 34.1 (#127) (2015): 203-210 doi:10.7282/T3QR5020; 33.2 (#126) (2015):

180-185 doi:10.7282/T33F4RDH; 32.2 (#124) (2014): 199-204; 32.1 (#123) (2013): 175-180;

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3G44SCS


31.1/2 (#119/120) (2012): 193–199; 30.3/4 (#117/118) (2012): 183–87; 30.1/2 (#115/116)

(2011): 182-189; 29.1/2 (#111/112) (2010): 188-192; 28.1/2 (#107/108) (2009): 192-197.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Rhonda Wilcox et al, eds. Reading Joss Whedon [Review].”

Mythlore, vol. 34, no. 2, 2016, pp. 218-220, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol34/iss2/12/,

doi:10.7282/T3KW5J4N.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Christopher Vaccaro, ed. The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium

[Review].” Mythlore, vol. 33, no. 1 (#125), 2014, pp. 146-149,

https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol33/iss1/9/, doi:10.7282/T3TB17XC.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “J.R.R. Tolkien, trans. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary,

together with Sellic Spell [Review].” Mythprint: The Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic

Society, vol. 51, no. 3 (#370), 2014. doi:10.7282/T3PK0H62

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Alexandra Wallner. J.R.R. Tolkien [Review].” Mythprint: The

Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 50, no. 1, 2013, p. 7.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Lynnette Porter, Ed. Sherlock Holmes for the New Century

[Review].” Mythlore, vol. 31, no. 3/4 2013, pp. 122-125, https://dc.swosu.edu/


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Cynthia J. Hallett and Peggy J. Huey. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter

[Review].” Mythlore, vol. 31, no. 3/4, 2013, pp. 139-143, https://dc.swosu.edu/


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “What Made Bilbo Special? The 1977 Rankin Bass Production of

The Hobbit [Review].” Beyond Bree, 2012, p. 4.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Valerie Estelle Frankel. Buffy and the Heroine’s Journey [Review].”

Mythlore, vol. 31, no. 1/2, 2012, pp. 191-193, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

vol31/iss1/10/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Jason Fisher, Ed. Tolkien and the Study of His Sources [Review].”

Mallorn, vol. 53, 2012, pp. 11-12.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Valerie Estelle Frankel. From Girl to Goddess [Review].” Mythlore,

vol. 30, no. 1/2, 2011, pp. 169-171, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol30/iss1/10/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Denise Roper. The Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and

Themes in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter [Review].” Oklahoma Librarian, Sept/Oct 2010,

https://www.oklibs.org/page/OKL_Archive.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Carolyn Hares-Stryker. The Illustrators of the Wind in the Willows,

1908-2008; the Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition edited by Seth Lerer; the

Annotated Wind in the Willows edited by Annie Gauger [Review].” Mythlore, vol. 28, no.

1/2, 2009, pp. 183-187, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol28/iss1/12/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “J.R.R. Tolkien. Tales from the Perilous Realm [Review].” Mythprint:

The Quarterly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 46, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 8-9.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Cory Doctorow. Little Brother [Review].” Oklahoma Librarian,

July/August 2008, https://www.oklibs.org/page/OKL_Archive.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather [Review].” Mythprint: The Monthly

Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 44, no. 12, 2007, p. 11.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Thomas Honegger, ed. Reconsidering Tolkien [Review].” Tolkien

Studies, vol. 3, 2006, pp. 190-193.


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Thomas Honegger, Ed. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film

[Review].” Mythprint: the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, February 2005, pp. 12-

13.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “John Garth. Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth

[Review].” World Literature Today, 2005, p. 93.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Legacy of The Lord of the Rings [Review].” Beyond Bree,

Saptember 2002, p. 5.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring [Review].” Mythprint: The

Monthly Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 39, no. 1, 2002, pp. 4-5.

Non-refereed articles, letters, indexes, creative work, and miscellaneous publications: • Croft, Janet Brennan. “In Baba Yaga’s Garden [Poem].” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p. 51.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Bamboo [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p.24.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Dogwood [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p. 33.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Enchanted Forest [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, back

cover.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Morning Dew [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p.17.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Nautilus [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p.11.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Pilings [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, front cover.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Round Barn [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p. 35.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Snow at Night [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p.43.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Succulents [Photograph.]” Mythic Circle, vol. 41, 2019, p.49.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Mythlore at Fifty.” Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2 (#134), 2019, pp. 5-21.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “In Memoriam: Nancy-Lou Patterson.” Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2

(#134), 2019, pp. 152-156.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Beyond The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Other Works for Children

[Conference paper].” Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 6, iss. 2, Article 9, 2018,

https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol6/iss2/9.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Mythlore at 50: A Celebration: 1969-2019 [Collector booklet].”

Mythopoeic Society, 2018.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Ursula K. Le Guin in Mythlore [Note].” Mythlore, vol. 36, no. 2,

2018, pp. 108-111, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol36/iss2/9/.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Edith Crowe. Mythlore Index Plus. 3rd edition, Mythopoeic

Press, 2012-present. An Index to Mythlore: Issues 1-100, 1st edition. 2008; An Index to

Mythlore: Issues 1-102, 2nd edition, 2008. Supplements for issues 101-106 and Tolkien

Journal 1-18 (which merged with Mythlore in 1976), 2009. Supplements for published

conference papers collections and issues 101-110 published online, 2010.

http://mythsoc.org/press/mythlore-index-plus.htm

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Edith Crowe. “In Memoriam: Tom Loback in Mythlore [Note].”

Mythlore, vol. 33, no. 2 (#126), 2015, pp. 156-157, https://dc.swosu.edu/


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “In Memoriam: Terry Pratchett in Mythlore [Note].” Mythlore, vol.

33, no. 2 (#126), 2015, p. 155, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol33/iss2/13/.


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “A Bibliography of Glen GoodKnight’s Articles, Reviews, and

Major Editorials in Mythlore [Note].” Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 3/4 (#113/114), 2011, pp. 5-10,

https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol29/iss3/2/.

• Faktorovich, Anna. “Interview with Janet Brennan Croft, Editor of Mythlore.”

Pennsylvania Literary Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2011, pp. 11-23.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Arachne [Poem].” Mythic Circle, vol. 32, 2010, pp. 6-7.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Index.” The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America: From H.P.

Lovecraft to Leslie Marmon Silko, edited by Amy H. Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman,

Mythopoeic Press, 2009, pp. 174-181.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Edith Crowe. “Pauline Baynes in Mythlore [Note].” Mythlore,

vol. 27, no. 1/2 (#103/104), 2008, pp. 7-8, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol27/iss1/3/.

• Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. The Travelling Rug. Mythopoeic Press, 2005. Annotations.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Cinematic Tolkien [Letter].” World Literature Today, May-

August 2004, p. 76.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Morality of Military Leadership in The Lord of the Rings.”

Mallorn, vol. 42, 2004, pp. 47-50.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Jay Shorten. “‘Reading Lord of the Rings: The Final Attempt’:

An Analysis of a Web Community.” Mallorn, vol. 41, 2003, pp. 26-33.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Conference Report: The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture

Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, February 2003.” Mythprint: The Monthly

Bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, vol. 40, no. 4, 2003, p. 4.

Keynote or invited conference presentations and lectures: Different versions of the same talk may have been given in multiple years and at multiple venues. Titles

are listed in order of the most recent version given.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Name of the Ring: Or, There and Back Again.” Guest of

Honor talk, MidMoot III, University of Maryland, September 24, 2016; Mythcon 46,

Colorado Springs, August 2015; Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 2015. • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Perilous and Fair, Ancient and Modern, Luminous and Powerful:

Critical Directions for the Study of Tolkien’s Women in the 21st Century.” Author Talks

Series, Rutgers University Libraries, July 27, 2016.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “J.R.R. Tolkien and the World Wars.” New York Tolkien Society

Conference invited speaker, July 16, 2016; Guest Lecture, Oklahoma State University

Library World War I Series, November 20, 2014; National World War I Museum invited

speaker, Kansas City, MO, December 2012.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Barrel-rides and She-elves: Audience and ‘Anticipation’ in Peter

Jackson’s Hobbit Movies.” Guest Lecture, Ramapo College, March 9, 2016; Scholar

Keynote Address, New York Tolkien Conference, June 13, 2015; Guest lecture,

Marquette University Special Collections, March 26, 2015. doi:10.7282/T3VX0J9T

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions.” The

University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 2013; Special invited guest

presentation at Return of the Ring, Loughborough, England, August 2012; Mythopoeic

Society Annual Conference, Berkeley CA, August 6, 2012.


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Thread on Which Doom Hangs: Free Will, Disobedience, and

Eucatastrophe in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.” Scholar Guest of Honor Keynote Address.

Mythopoeic Society Conference, Dallas, July 2010.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Tolkien and War.” National Endowment for the Humanities

Summer Institute: “J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Real and the Imagined

Middle Ages,” Texas A&M University, August 2009.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Tolkien and War.” Lecture and discussion for “From Beowulf to

Postmodernism, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,” a National Endowment for the

Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers at Texas A&M, July 2004.

Conference presentations: Different versions of the same talk may have been given in multiple years and at multiple venues. Titles

are listed in order of the most recent version given.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Beyond The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Other Works for Children.”

Tolkien and Inspiration: A Multidisciplinary Symposium (New York Tolkien

Conference in partnership with The Morgan Library and Museum), March 17, 2019.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘Now You Don’t Have to Use This Color Anymore’: Art Therapy

in Orphan Black and Dollhouse.” Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque,

February 22, 2019.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Auntie, What Ails Thee?: The Parzival Question in Orphan Black.”

Mythcon 49, Atlanta GA, July 2018.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “What Happens in Alison’s Room: Depictions of Art and Craft in

Orphan Black.” Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 9, 2018.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Hell and Back: Helena as Kore and Shaman in Orphan Black.”

Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 17, 2017; Rutgers-

Camden ComicCon, April 8, 2017; Mythcon 48, July 2017.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘What if I’m still there? What if I never left that clinic?’: Faërian

Drama in Buffy’s ‘Normal Again’.” Buffy at 20, Marquette University, April 1, 2017;

Mythcon 48, July 2017.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Faërian Drama, Without the Fairies: Two Post-Tolkienian

Examples.” Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 10, 2016;

Mythcon 47, San Antonio, August 2016. • Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Art of the Foreword: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Very Short Works.”

Retitled “Doors into Elf-Mounds: Tolkien’s Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords.”

Popular Culture Association, Seattle, March 25, 2016; New York Tolkien Society

Conference, July 16, 2016; Mythcon 47, San Antonio, August 2016; read at monthly

meeting of Rivendell Discussion Group, Minneapolis, September 2016.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘It’s good to be me’: Buffy’s Resistance to Renaming.” Southwest

Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2015; Mythcon 46, Colorado

Springs, August 2015. • Croft, Janet Brennan. “Noms de Guerre: The Power of Naming in War and Conflict in

Middle-earth.” Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April 2014, and Mythopoeic

Society Annual Conference, Wheaton MA, August 2014.


• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Vampire Family Plot: Naming, Siring, and Identity.”

Southwest Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2014, and Mythopoeic

Society Annual Conference, Wheaton MA, August 2014.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Giving Evil a Name: Buffy’s Glory, Angel’s Jasmine, and the

Limiting (and Limited) Power of Names.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture

Association, Albuquerque, February 2013 and Mythopoeic Society Conference, East

Lansing, July 2013.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Jackson’s Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth.”

Popular Culture Association, San Diego, March 2005, Mythopoeic Society Conference,

Los Angeles, July 2009, University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 2012.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training

Corps.” C.S. Lewis and Inklings Annual Conference. Tulsa, OK, April 2010; Mythcon.

Albuquerque, NM, July 2011.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Soldier and the Cipher: Miles, Mark, and the Naming Plots of

Bujold’s Vorkosiverse.” Popular Culture Association/Southwest-Texas Popular Culture

Association Joint Conference. San Antonio TX, April 2011; Mythcon. Albuquerque, NM,

July 2011.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Psyche in New York: The Devil Wears Prada Updates the Myth.”

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2010 and

Mythopoeic Society Conference, Dallas, July 2010.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Túrin and Aragorn: Evading and Embracing Fate.” University of

New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 2010, C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society Conference,

Oklahoma City, April 2010, and Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, April 2010.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and

Rowling.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2009,

University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 2009, and Mythopoeic Society

Conference, Los Angeles, July 2009.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Education of a Witch: Tiffany Aching, Hermione Granger,

and Gendered Magic in Discworld and Potterworld.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture

Association. Albuquerque, February 2008, and Mythopoeic Society Conference, Hartford

CT, August 2008.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Retrospective: Tolkien and Film.” Popular Culture Association.

San Francisco, March 2008.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Nice, Good, or Right: Faces of the Wise Woman in Terry

Pratchett’s ‘Witches’ Novels.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association.

Albuquerque, February 2007; Mythcon 34, Nashville TN, July 2003.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Great Horns of the North Wildly Blowing’: J.R.R. Tolkien and

War.” University of New Mexico Hobbit Society, February 2007.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Tolkien as Scholar: The Academic Life of ‘On Fairy-Stories’ and

‘Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics’.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association,

Albuquerque, February 2005.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by

Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle.” Mythcon 35, Ann Arbor, July 2003 and


Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/Popular Culture Association, San

Antonio, April 2004.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Mines of Moria: ‘Anticipation’ and ‘Flattening’ in Peter

Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring. Mythcon 34, Nashville TN, July 2003 and

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2003.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘The Dull Backwaters of the Art of Killing’: Training, Signalling,

Intelligence, and Maps in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fiction.” Popular Culture Association New

Orleans, April 2003.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root’: Themes from Macbeth in

The Lord of the Rings.” Mythcon 33, Boulder, CO, July 2002.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Jay Shorten. “‘Reading Lord of the Rings: The Final Attempt’: an

analysis of a web community.” Popular Culture Association, Toronto, March 2002.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘The utter stupid waste of war’: J.R.R. Tolkien on World War II.”

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, February 2002.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Great War and Tolkien’s Memory: an examination of World

War I themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.” Mythcon 32, San Francisco, August

2001, and Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 2001.

Conference panels:

• Frequent panel participant at University of New Mexico Hobbit Society. Most recently:

“A Tolkien Roundtable: What Inspires You?”, February 7, 2018; “The Hobbit:

Observations on the relationships between Tolkien’s book and Jackson’s films,” 2015.

• Frequent panel participant or chair at Mythcon, annual conference of The Mythopoeic

Society. Most recently: “All This and World War I (Chair),” August 2019; “Are There

Any Women Here Today?” August 2019; “Tolkien and Death,” August 2016; “The

Mythopoeic Wilderness,” July 2013

• Frequent panel participant or chair at Popular/American Culture Association annual

conference. Most recently: “Tolkien Studies Editors’ Roundtable,” Seattle, March 2016;

“British Popular Culture: Radford’s The Merchant of Venice,” St. Louis, April 2010.

• Frequent panel participant at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association annual

conference. Most recently: “Professional Development: The Academic Job Search,” 2016;

“If Not for Éowyn (or Galadriel, Lúthien, Arwen ...): What Tolkien’s Women Mean in the

21st Century,” 2015.

Works in progress and forthcoming:

Edited books and journal issues:

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Alyson Buckman, editors. Sisterhood, Science and Surveillance in

Orphan Black: Critical Essays. Forthcoming from McFarland, in press for 2019. Will

include my essay “Hell and Back: Helena as Kore and Shaman in Orphan Black,” co-

authored Introduction, and index.

• Croft, Janet Brennan and Annika Röttinger, editors. “Something Has Gone Crack”: New

Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War. Forthcoming from Walking Tree

Publications, 2019. Includes my introduction.


• Fisher, Jason and Janet Brennan Croft. Libraries in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A

Gedenkschrift for David Oberhelman. Mythopoeic Press, 2020. Includes my essay on

research methods.

• Larsen, Kristine and Janet Brennan Croft. J.R.R. Tolkien and the Works of Joss Whedon.

Guest edited special issue of Journal of Tolkien Research, 2020. Includes my essay on

faerian drama in Cabin in the Woods.

Refereed articles:

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “What Happens in Alison’s Room: Depictions of Art and Craft in

Orphan Black.” Submitted manuscript accepted at Coreopsis for publication Fall 2019.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘It’s good to be me’: Buffy’s Resistance to Renaming.” Submitted

manuscript under review at Slayage.

Book chapters:

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “‘Now You Don’t Have to Use This Color Anymore’: Art Therapy

in Orphan Black and Dollhouse.” Accepted manuscript for Trauma, Memory, and Disability

in the Whedonverse. Edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A.

Troyer. Forthcoming in 2020.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Barrel-rides and She-elves: Audience and ‘Anticipation’ in Peter

Jackson’s Hobbit Movies.” Accepted manuscript for The Hobbit in Fiction and Film, ed.

Janice Bogstad, forthcoming from McFarland, 2019.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Golempunk Manifesto: Ownership of the Means of

Production in Pratchett’s Discworld.” Accepted manuscript for Discworld and Beyond:

Essays on the Works of Terry Pratchett, ed. Kristin Noone and Emily Lavin Leverett,

forthcoming from McFarland, 2019.


SERVICE

Grants and Awards For library-related projects and programs:

• Rutgers-New Brunswick Summer and Special Projects Office, 2014-2018, to provide

funding for student workers during summer sessions and winter intersession; $4.00 to

$5.50 per registered student on the New Brunswick campuses; most recent summer

award was $73,000.

• Ed Cline Faculty Development Award, University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2014.

Meditation Labyrinths Phase 2, $1500.00 (required IRB approval).

• Great Western Library Association. GWLA Share Card Project, 2008, $1000.00.

• Faculty Travel Assistance Grants Program, University of Oklahoma, 2005. Travel to

Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute. $298.00.

• Oklahoma Library Association. Travel to Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute, 2005.

$250.00.

• Faculty Senate Development Awards, University of Oklahoma. Travel to present at

American Library Association, Orlando. $1849.00.

For literary and popular culture criticism research:

• University Libraries Faculty Research Initiative Fund, University of Oklahoma, 2008.

Dual computer monitor station for study to assist in research, editing. $810.00.


Research at Texas Tech University for Tolkien Encyclopedia. $513.00.

• Vice President for Research Support, University of Oklahoma, 2004. Support for

publication expenses for War in the Works of JRR Tolkien. $1000.00.


Research at Marquette University Special Collections for essays on Tolkien films.

$900.00.


DVD/CD RW for computer for research on Tolkien films. $210.00.


Research at Marion Wade Center at Wheaton College for various Tolkien projects.

$700.00.


Organizations

Library organizations: • American Library Association (ALA). 1983-present

o STARS Legislation and Licensing Committee, 2005-2007

o Copyright Advisory Network (CAN) Team, 2007-2010, 2018-present

• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). 1993-2001

• Council for Oklahoma Information Literacy (COIL). 2003-2005

• Mountain Plains Library Association (MPLA). 2005-2007

o MPLA Ghost Ranch Leadership Institute, 2005

• Oklahoma Association of College and Research Libraries (OK-ACRL) Public and Access

Services Interest Group (PASIG), founding member, 2009-2014

• Oklahoma Library Association (OLA). 2001-2014

o Legislative Committee, 2001-2006

o Editor of Oklahoma Librarian, 2006-2009; book review editor, 2009-2014; copyright

column, 2012-2014

Literary and popular culture organizations: • C.S. Lewis and Inklings Society (CSLIS). 2009-2014

• Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). 2006-present

o Award Committee, Voyager Award, 2009

• Grateful Dead Studies Association. 2019-present • The Mythopoeic Society. 2001-present

o Chair, 2008, 2016. Vice Chair, 2013, 2017

o Editor of Mythlore and member of Council of Stewards, 2006-present

o Mythopoeic Press Advisory Committee, 2003-present

o Scholar Guest of Honor, Mythcon 41 (2010)

o Paper coordinator, Mythcon 33 (2002), Mythcon 35 (2004), Mythcon 42 (2011),

Mythcon 48 (2017), Mythcon 50 (2019); Conference Chair, Mythcon 37 (2006)

o Inklings Scholarship Award and Myth and Fantasy Studies Award Committees,

2002-present

o Alexei Kondratiev Student Conference Paper Award Committee, chair, 2011-

present

• The New York C.S. Lewis Society. 2006-2008

• Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA). 2000-present

• Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). 2001-present

o Co-Area Chair, Libraries, Museums, and Archives in Popular Culture, 2001-2013;

Chair, 2013-2017

o Chair and founder, Crafting, Crafters, and Craft Culture Area, 2018-present

o Chair, Science Fiction (General), 2020-present

o Award committees: Susan Rollins Award for Museum Studies and Public

History 2011-2015, Historic and Contemporary Cultures 2016

• The Tolkien Society. 2004-2006


Awards, Honors, Certifications, and Additional Information and Service

Librarianship Awards

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “Model Licenses and Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery from

Electronic Resources.” Interlending and Document Delivery, vol. 29, no. 4, 2001, pp. 165-

168. Awarded Most Outstanding Article published in Interlending and Document Supply

in 2001.

Consulting • Conducted educational copyright workshops for organizations such as OK-ACRL,

Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Tennessee School Library

Association, St. Louis Regional Library Network, Consortium of Research and Academic

Libraries in Illinois, and Ex Libris, among others.

Editing • Editor of bimonthly newsletter Oklahoma Librarian, 2006-2009; book review editor, 2009-

2014; copyright column, 2012-2014.

Referee/Reviewer • Referee for journal submissions to Library Quarterly, The Lion and the Unicorn, etc.

• Outside reviewer for tenure packets for various university libraries.

Certifications • American Red Cross first aid certification, 2014.

• Lean/Six Sigma green certification, 2013.

• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Certificate of Public Librarianship, 1986.

Selected Continuing Education • “Government Publications.” Northern Illinois University, Fall 1983.

• “The Disability Community in the Library: Education, Access, and Advocacy.”

University of Wisconsin, Fall 2018.

Other service

• Sooner Ally (LGBTQ advocate), 2010-2014. • Member of Speaker’s Service of the University of Oklahoma Faculty Senate, 2006-2014.


Literary and popular culture studies Awards

• Croft, Janet Brennan. “The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training

Corps.” C.S. Lewis and Inklings Annual Conference. Tulsa, OK, April 2010. Honorable

Mention in Scholar Category Presentation Awards.

• Croft, Janet Brennan. War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Praeger, 2004. Contributions to

the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 106. Winner of the 2005 Mythopoeic

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.

Consulting • “Tolkien Scholar” credit for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation

of Smaug, and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies.

• Consultant for Warner Brothers Lord of the Rings-related games, including Shadow of

Mordor and Shadow of War.

Editing • Editor of semiannual refereed scholarly journal Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.

Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, 2006-present.

• Interim editor of Mythprint: Review Newsletter of the Mythopoeic Society, 2010.

Referee/Reviewer • Referee for journal submissions to The Lion and the Unicorn, Genre, Tolkien Studies,

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, etc.

• Referee for book and chapter manuscripts for Palgrave Macmillan, Modern Language

Association, McFarland, Open Court, University of Liverpool, Luther-Agricola Society,

etc.

• Editorial Boards: Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy;

Cosmogamy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Creations (forthcoming).

• Provided cover endorsements for books from Apocryphile Press, Lion Hudson, Modern

Language Association, Illinois University Press, Palgrave, etc.

• Thesis Advisor for students at the Mythgard Institute of Signum University, 2016-

present.

References • Entry in Contemporary Authors, v. 258 (2008): 59-61.

Other service • Costume Designer, Drama Club, Martin Methodist College, 1997-2000.


Links and Online Presence • Academia.edu: https://rutgers.academia.edu/JanetCroft

• OrcID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-3586

• Institutional repositories:

o Rutgers University: http://soar.libraries.rutgers.edu/bib/Janet_Brennan_Croft/

o University of Oklahoma: https://shareok.org/browse?type=author&value=

Croft%2C+Janet+Brennan

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janet-brennan-croft-2332618

• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janet_Croft

• Internet Movie Database: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5523767/?ref_=nv_sr_3?

ref_=nv_sr_3

• Twitter: @banzailibrarian

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=B6r2nKAAAAAJ&hl=en

• Mythlore: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/

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