Profiles
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Gabrielle (Abby) Annala
Title/s: Adjunct Instructor
Librarian
Specialty Area: Research
Office #: CLC 620
Phone: 312.915.6948
Email: gannala@luc.edu
External Webpage: http://gabrielleannala.weebly.com/
About
Abby is the subject specialist librarian for the schools of Business Administration and Communication at Loyola University Chicago's University Libraries. She has a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Library and Information Science. She teaches a variety of research classes including Using Social Media in Your Research, Data Visualization, IP, Patent & Trademark Research, Market Research Data, and many more. She also teaches in the library science Master's program at Dominican University.
Degrees
MBA with a concentration in Marketing and a certificate in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence - Loyola University Chicago
MLIS - Dominican University
BA in History - Loyola University Chicago
BA in Religious Studies - Loyola University Chicago
Research Interests
Research methods, Library Science, Information Literacy
Professional & Community Affiliations
American Library Association
Academic Library Marketing - Founder and Member
Library User Experience Chicago - Steering Committee Member
Library Marketing and Communications Conference - Project Manager
Courses Taught
COMM 415: Discovering and Investigating Stories
COMM 403: Research Methods in Strategic Communication
Selected Publications
Annala, Gabrielle (2016). Book Review: Marketing the 21st Century Academic Library: The Time is Now. Marketing Library Services, 30(1), 7.
Annala, Gabrielle (2017). Marketing with Blogs in Marketing with Social Media, 2nd Edition. Edited by Beth Thomsett-Scott.