Christina Riehman-Murphy
Christina Riehman-Murphy, Assistant Librarian, is the Penn State Libraries Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations and the Open and Affordable Educational Resources Librarian at Penn State Abington College. She is the co-program manager of a faculty open and affordable resources (OAER) adoption grant at Abington, which supports faculty in transitioning their courses to OAER course materials. The endowment funded program, now in its third year, has impacted hundreds of Abington students, saving them over $90,000 and ensuring they have permanent access to their educational materials from day one of their classes. She was awarded a grant to fund her work as an embedded librarian in an upper-level English class where the faculty and students are collaboratively authoring an open textbook on early modern literature.
She also has an interest in global humanities and open initiatives and works closely with an undergraduate research project on a historical recipe manuscript transcription project. That project inspired a collaboration with Monash University Library to enhance Penn State’s global partnerships by starting the award-winning annual international “Great Rare Books Bake Off.” In addition, she is a faculty co-lead for a short-term study abroad program to Ghana. She has her M.S. in Library Science from Clarion University and a BA in English and Secondary Education from The Catholic University of America.
