Profile for Courtney Shareef

As the Strategic Research Initiatives Librarian, Courtney Shareef supports Ekstrom Library's Scholar Services, a new suite of signature services that develop collaborative and embedded relationships with campus researchers across disciplines. In addition, she serves as the librarian liaison for the UofL's College of Education and Human Development, providing faculty and students with research support and information literacy instruction.

Courtney is a member of the 2024-2025 cohort of Institute for Research Design in Librarianship scholars and a 2023-2024 ACRL Diversity Alliance resident librarian. Her current scholarly interests and pursuits include library initiatives that support innovations in research, resource sharing, and DEIA in higher education.

Courtney joined Ekstrom Library's Research Assistance and Instruction Department from The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive. She obtained a master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (May '22), a master's of fine arts in Creative Writing Fiction (Columbia College Chicago ’16), and a bachelor's of arts in Print Journalism (Howard University ’13).

A lover of archives and literature of all kinds, she believes in the transformational power of narrative and information literacy.

• Education
• Humanities
• Pan-African Studies
• Scholar Services