Personal Statement
Personal Statement
As digital publishing librarian, I manage the university's institutional repository, , and the library's publishing program. I am also the point person for all things related to open access and open educational resources. I regularly field questions related to author rights, Zotero, copyright, and scholarly publishing. For more information, see my library guides:
Diplomas/Degrees
Diplomas/Degrees
MSI, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2017)
PhD, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2014)
MPhil, Trinity College Dublin (2005)
MA, University of Chicago (2003)
BA/BA, Long Island University (2001)
Articles
Articles
Barnes, Christopher A. (2025) "Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 6(1), 25-35. . Data available at .
Barnes, C. A., Vine, S., & Nadeau, R. (2024). Assessing textbook affordability before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Results of student and faculty surveys. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50(2), 102864.
Barnes, C. A., Khamis, R., Hyter, Y. D., & Yu, B. (2023). "In Defense of Endogeny." The Scholarly Kitchen.
Schleicher, C. A. & Barnes, C. A. & Joslin, R. A., (2020) “OER Initiatives at Liberal Arts Colleges: Building Support at Three Small, Private Institutions”, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 8(1), p.eP2301. DOI:
Reiman-Sendi, Karen A., Christopher A. Barnes & Pamela J. MacKintosh (2018). Leveraging Student Employee Expertise for Collection Projects. Collection Management. DOI:
Chapters
Chapters
Barnes, Christopher A. "Chapter 3. Documenting Rights, Roles, and Responsibilities: Publication Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding" in Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program. Edited by Jonathan Grunert. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2025.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Barnes, C. A. (2025, May 6). Undergraduate Journal Publishing Workflows [Conference lightning talk]. Library Publishing Forum 2025, virtual.
Barnes, C. A. (2024, October 10). Enslaved in old New York: A digital history and data project [Conference presentation]. Afro-American Historical and Genealogical SocietyNational Conference, virtual.
Barnes, C. A. (2024, May 16). Platforms, policies, and formats of undergrad journals in North America: Preliminary results from a systematic analysis of 100 journals [Conference presentation]. Library Publishing Forum (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA).
Barnes, C. A. (2022, September 13). Avoiding APCs: The role of libraries in supporting OA publishing without author fees [Conference presentation]. International Political Science Association conference, Open Access Publishing: A New Era in Scholarly Communication (Montreal, Canada and Virtual).
Barnes, C. (2020, November 9). OER Advocacy as Part of a Library-led Textbook Affordability Initiative with Student Government. 17th Annual Open Education Conference 2020, virtual.
Barnes, C. (2020, September 16). Addressing a Dire Issue: Running a Textbook Affordability Initiative with Students. 2nd Annual Affordable Learning Summit, Affordable Learning Pennsylvania, virtual.
Barnes, C., Slingluff, L., Shar, J., & Finkbeiner, N. (2019, October 31). Tough Questions: A Discussion of Libraries and Bookstores Partnering in Support of OER [Panel]. 16th Annual Open Education Conference, Glendale, AZ
Barnes, C. (2019, October 30). Connecting the Crises: Serials, Textbooks, and Tuition. 16th Annual Open Education Conference, Glendale, AZ. https://digital.fandm.edu/object/scholars-square57414
Barnes, C. (2018, October 26). OER and Accessibility: Designing Equitable Foundations for Open Education. ACLCP Fall Conference, Harrisburg, PA.
Barnes, C. (2017, June). Scaling up: Assessing the future of OA monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the American Library Association.
Invited Presentations
Invited Presentations
Parme, S., Barnes, C., Downing, J., Hampton, M., Hauck, L., Heger, L., Kowalski, L., Mania, B., Rattigan, M., Stafford, D., & Yelinek K. (2020, October 13). Strange Bedfellows? OER and the Campus Bookstore [Webinar]. Affordable Learning PA, virtual.
Barnes, C., Carter, C., & Joslin, R. (2018, April 25). OER Initiatives and the Liberal Arts College [Webinar]. Partnership for Liberal Arts Collaboration and Exploration (P-LACE). Retrieved from
Other Work
Other Work
The Cowenhoven Project: Recovering Black Lives from Enslaver Archives in New York and New Jersey. Website. Launch 19 June 2026.
Research Interests
Research Interests
My current research focuses on the digital preservation of slavery records and the ways that data science and artificial intelligence can help recover the names and lives of the people they document. I published an on the subject in 2025 and created the , a website focused on the hundreds of individuals enslaved by my Dutch ancestors in the New York-New Jersey region. The project allows me to combine my digital publishing expertise with my doctoral training in early American literature (Michigan, 2014) and my passion for public history.
University Service
University Service
Chair, Faculty Senate Library Committee, 2025-2027
International Experience
International Experience
Master's of Philosophy in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin.
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