Lawrence J. Mello, Jr.

Research and Instructional Librarian at Florida Atlantic University Libraries, specializing in government information, maps, and instructional services. I bring extensive experience supporting university research and serving as a liaison across academic and non-academic departments. As a U.S. As a Navy veteran with advanced degrees in history and library science, I excel at meeting diverse research needs, managing comprehensive government document collections, and creating essential subject guides. I am an active member of library associations, where I advocate for outreach initiatives, and champion intellectual freedom.

Professional:

• Library Instructional Sessions: 2014 - 2025: 335
• Library Consultations Sessions: 2014 - 2025: 254

Pre-Professional:

• Library Instructional Sessions: 2013 - 2014: 5

In-House Training Sessions to FAU Library Staff and Faculty

· Mello, L. (February 2022) Library Research 101 Video Tutorial

· Mello, L. (September 2021) FAU Libraries Live! Undergrad Edition

· Barron, B. Mello, L. (September 2021) Primary Sources for History Research using Government Resources.

· Padron, K., Mello, L. (February 2021) Copyright Basics & History: Copyright (Without Fear) Master Class Series for FAU Libraries

· Mello, L. (October 2020) FAU Libraries Live

· O’Brien, T. Mello, L.  (October 2020) Professional Development Session: Library Resources 4 Faculty.

· Barron, B. Mello, L. Leader, K. (October 2020) Election 2020: Know Before You Go

· Mello, L. (July 2020) Primary Sources Workshop Video Tutorial

· Mello, L. O’Brien, T. (January 2019 Copyright

· Mello, L. O’Brien, T. (August 2019) When to Refer or Escort a User to the Proper Service Point or Ask A Librarian

· Mello, L. (August 2019) The Library’s Lucky 7: Locate Rooms in the Library

· Barron, B. Mello, L. (April 2019) Discovering the Digital and Physical Map Collection

· Barron, B., Mello, L. (October 2018) Election 2018: Research Candidates & Issues

· Barron, B., Mello, L. (October 2017) Primary Resources and Government Documents

· Barron, B., Mello, L. (April 2017) Discovering the Map Collections

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Bylaws Committee:

• 1/1/2020 – 12/31/2021
• 1/1/2016 – 12/31/2017

Dean’s Faculty Advisory Committee:

• 1/1/2017 – 12/31/2018

Exhibits Committee

• 2016 – 2018

Faculty Assembly:

• Vice Chair: 2025-2026, Chair: 2026-2027
• Vice Chair: 2017-2018, Chair: 2018-2019

Emerging Technologies Committee:

• Member 2014 – 2016

Promotion Criteria Committee:

• 1/1/2014 – 12/31/2016 / Chair – 2015-2016

Promotion Committee:

• 4/1/2019 – 3/31/2021

Library Leadership Team (LLT) Adjunct:

• 1/1/2020 – 6/30/2022

Space Allocation Committee (Current Co-Chair)

• 2016 - ongoing

Staff & Organizational Development Committee (SODC):

• Member 2013 – 2018 / Chair 2015 – 2017

Served on various Search Committees

• 2014 – present

Working Groups

• Copyright Working Group - 2019 - Ongoing
• Google Hangouts Working Group: - Working Group Chair: 2013 – 2015
• Hootsuite Working Group: 2013 – 2015
• Pinterest Working Group: Working Group Chair: 2014 – 2016

University

Distinction Through Discovery (QEP)

• Curriculum Committee: 2014 - Current

University Faculty Senate:

• 4/1/2025 – 4/1/2027
• 4/1/2023 – 4/1/2025
• 4/1/2021 – 4/1/2023
• 4/1/2019 – 4/1/2020
• 4/1/2014 – 4/1/2016

University Undergraduate Programs Committee

• 4/1/2025 – 4/1/2027
• 4/1/2023 – 4/1/2025
• 4/1/2021 – 4/1/2023

Local

SEFLIN - Southeast Florida Library Information Network (Member Status Current)

Training Liaisons Standing Committee

• 2022 - 2023

Library Advocacy Standing Committee

• 2020 – 2021

State

FLA - Florida Library Association (Member Status Current)

Intellectual Freedom Committee

• 2020 – 2022
• 2024 – 2026

National

ALA – American Library Association (Member Status Current)

GODART Social Media, Outreach, and Technology Committee – Volunteered Member

• 2024 – 2026

Leadership Development Committee – Invited Member

• 2025 - 2027

Peer-Reviewed

• Mello, Lawrence, Jr. "Government Information and Maps Web Design 2.0." Poster presented at Federal Depository Library Conference (Virtual), October 21-232, 2024.
• Mello, Lawrence, Jr. "Government Information and Maps Web Design 2.0." Poster presented at the Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute Conference, Tallahassee, FL, July 12, 2024.
• Mello, L.J., Jr. and Edwards, S. (2019). Undergraduate students’ engagement with social media as sources of news: What does it mean for information literacy? Presentation to the Palm Beach County Library Association Fall Quarterly Meeting. Invited. Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Oct. 9, 2019.
• Mello, L. J., Edwards, S. (2019). Undergraduate students’ evaluation and use of social media as news sources: Implications for information literacy instruction. Poster presented at the 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 20-25.
• Mello, L. McKeal A. (2016) Video/Audio Reference Consultation with Google Hangout Webinar, through Florida Library Webinars.
• Mello, L., Ergood, A. (2015) Video / Audio Reference Consultation with Google Hangout. Live session presented at 2015 SEFLIN Regional Conference: Connections: Libraries, Users, and Technology, Kovens Center, Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, North Miami Beach, Florida.

Non-Refereed

• Mello, L. and Tom O’Brien, (2020) “Copyright Module” for Center for Online and Continuing Education at Florida Atlantic University.
• Mello, L.J, Edwards, S. (2018). Lunch and Learn Symposium on Fake News for Senior Group at the Village of Wellington.
• Mello, L. Barron B. (2016), “Government Information and Primary Sources” to the Douglas High School Group.
• Mello, L., Bertot, J. Norton, J. (2014) “E-Government Information and its Value” Speaker on a Webinar for the E-Government, Cohort through the University of Maryland iSchool.

Pre-Professional

• Mello, L, John Bertot, Nancy Frederics, Janet Norton, Pamela Thomason (2012) Florida Library Association Conference 2012, Building the Next Generation of E- government Librarians: Skills, Training and Services. http://www.flalib.org/conference_2012/presentations_handouts/FLA2012EgovernmentPresentation_10April2012.pptx

Professional

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

• O’Brien, Thomas and Lawrence Mello. 2025. “Making the Most Out of a One-Shot Instructional Session.” Florida Libraries 67 (1): 27- 31. https://journals.flvc.org/flalib/article/view/139299/144309

Non-Refereed Book Reviews

Library Journal Book Reviews - https://www.libraryjournal.com/search?query=Lawrence+Mello

• The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution, 6/1/2025
• The Roma: A Traveling History, 6/1/2025
• JFK: Public, Private, Secret, 6/1/2025
• Little Vic and the Great Mafia War, 5/30/2025
• Battle Flags of the Wars for North America, 1754–1783: Foreign Armies and Regiments, 5/30/2025
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Overcoming the 500-Year Legacy, 5/30/2025
• Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary, 5/30/2025
• Charlottesville: An American Story, 5/1/2025
• Every Weapon I Had: A Vietnam Vet’s Long Road to the Medal of Honor, 4/18/2025
• The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, 4/18/2025
• The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank Wisner, 3/21/2025
• Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War, 3/21/2025
• The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland, 3/21/2025
• The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780, 3/21/2025
• The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: The Biography of a Regiment, 3/1/2025
• The Second Manassas Campaign, 3/1/2025
• German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 1492–1942, 2/1/2025
• The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America, 2/1/2025
• American History, 1775–1850: Forging a New Nation,1/31/2025
• From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War,1/1/2025
• The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero, 12/20/2024
• The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money, 12/1/2024
• Unitas to Unitas: Life’s Lessons Passed Down from Father to Son, 11/8/2024

ARBA Online (has been bought out)

ARBA, Volume 50: 2019 Edition

• Shaping North America: From Exploration to the American Revolution
• This is Who We Were: In the 1990’s
• Government Information Essentials
• Finding and Using U.S. Government Information: A Practical Guide for Librarians
• Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900
• The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Reference Guide

ARBA, Volume 49: 2018 Edition

• Profiles of Florida
• Daily Life in Colonial New England
• Library World Records

ARBA, Volume 48: 2017 Edition

• Defining Documents in American History: The 1900s (1900-1909)
• This is Who We Were: in the 1980s
• The Early Republic
• Explorers of the Maritime Pacific Northwest

ARBA, Volume 47: 2016 Edition

• Encyclopedia of the Continental Congress
• America Eras: Primary Sources: The Colonial Era 1600-1754

ARBA, Volume 46: 2015 Edition

• America Eras: Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850
• Civil War Special Forces: The Elite and Distinct Fighting Unites of the Union and Confederate Armies
• On Lincoln: Civil War History Readers

Pre-Professional

Peer-Reviewed Works

• Mello Jr., L. J. (2012). Travel.State.Gov. Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State. 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520. Retrieved February 23, 2012, from . Government Information Quarterly, 29(2), 296-297. PDF @ http://tinyurl.com/cqrfdzb

Various Training by Group or Topic – selected individual sessions noted.

• Effective Teaching Practice Framework through The Association of College and University Educators (online) 2025
• Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute 18, through the Division of Library and Information Services (Florida State Department) 2024
• Appreciative Advising Course through Florida Atlantic University (online), 2024
• FDLP Coordinator Certificate Program through Government Publishing Office (online), 2022
• ALA, ARL, ACRL, GPO, and Other Related Professional Association Training
• SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network) Training
• Information Resource Management (IRM) and Office of Information Technology (OIT) Courses at Florida Atlantic University (live)
• Vendor Training (live face-to-face and webinar)
• Title IX Training (webinar)

Professional

Federal Depository Library Conference & Library Council Meetings

• May 2-3, 2025 (virtual Spring Meeting)
• October 21-23, 2024 (virtual Spring Meeting) Poster Presentation.
• May 1-2, 2023, (virtual Spring Meeting)
• October 17-19, 2022, (virtual Fall Conference)
• April 11-12, 2022, (virtual Spring Meeting)
• October 18-20, 2021 (virtual Fall Conference)
• April 21, 2021 (virtual Spring Council Meeting)
• October 20-22, 2020 (virtual Fall Conference)
• April 22, 2020 (virtual Spring Council Meeting)
• October 21-23, 2019 (virtual Fall Conference)
• April 15-17, 2019 (virtual Spring Council Meeting
• October 22-24, 2018 (virtual Fall Conference)
• April 27-29, 2016 (virtual Spring Council meeting)

SEFLIN Regional Conferences

• 2014 - 2021

National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Virtual Conference

• 2015 - 2017

Kraemer Copyright Conference at the University of Colorado

• 2017 (in-person)

Values-Based Academic Leadership Institute Conference

• October 2018 (in-person)

Pre-Professional

Federal Depository Library Conference – (in person):

• 2010, 2011

Depository Library Council Virtual Meeting:

• 2015

Florida Library Association Conference

• 2012

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

• Faculty Author Spotlight (February 2023)
• Doughnuts with the Dean (Various dates throughout the year)
• Constitution Day in September – (Government Documents) (September 2018 - Current)
• Library Open House – (Government Documents) (September 2022)
• Library Scavenger Hunt – (Government Documents) (Fall Semester)
• Black Faculty and Staff Affinity Group Meeting (July 2022)
• Get the Scoop” FAU Library Ice Cream Social (July 2022)
• Serve as personal librarian for students engaged in Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (SURF): (2015 - Ongoing)
• Progressive Young Black Men in Blazers: (February 2019)
• SOAR: Owl-in Student Orientation (8/3/2021, 8/6/2021, 9/15/2021)
• Explore FAU Day, Library Volunteer (2017 - Ongoing)
• Orientation: Mix & Mingle with Parents, (July 20, 28, 31, August 24, 2019, May 30, June 15, & June 29, 2018)
• National Park Week Table Events with the Government Information and Maps Department (National Park Table Event and Exhibit (April 2019, April 2018), National Park Movie Day – showing of Ken Burns’ Documentary on National Parks. (April 17, 2018)
• “Salute to our Military Veterans,” put on by the FAU Staff Forum, (November 6, 2017)
• Jewish New Year / SU Multicultural Affairs Event with Instruction and Engagement Colleagues (September 2017)
• Library Strategic Plan Meeting (November 2016)
• FAU EXPO (October 2016)
• Common Reading Book Event through the University Honors Program (September 2015)
• Distinction through Discovery Annual Summer Retreat (August 2015)
• Library Table event for Commuter & Veteran Student Orientation (August 2015)
• University Honors Program Student Reception (August 2015)
• Campus Days, Library Volunteer (February & March 2014

University

• 13thAnnual Undergraduate Research Symposium (Oral Judge) (April 2023, 2024, 2025)
• FAU Live Events (2021-2022)
• Get Help Campaign (2014 – Current)
• Undergraduate Research Symposium, Poster Judge (March 2017, April 2019, April 2020, April 2021)
• Distinction through Discovery Annual Summer Retreat (August 2016, 2017, 2019)
• Registration Day with the History Department (October 2018 - 2024)
• New Student Parent Orientation – held in the library. (December 17, January 2020)
• History Department Foundation Awards and Phi Alpha Theta Awards Ceremony (April 2017)
• Women’s Heritage Event (March 2017)
• Choose FAU Day (March 2017)
• New Mentoring Orientation (February 2017)
• Center for Autism and Related Disorders (C.A.R.D.) Autism Awareness Event held in the library (April 2016)
• History Faculty and Graduate Student Reception (October 2016 - 2024)
• Parent and Family Social, library representative (September 2016)
• University Honors Program Welcome Reception (August 2016)
• We are One Pulse: A Panel Discussion on the Orlando Tragedy through PJHR (June 2016)
• Magna Carta Event Lecture and Panel Discussion (November 2015)

Community

• Vice President for the Western Wildcats Band Booster Organization (2025-2026)
• Volunteer and Coach for the YMCA Sports/ Special Olympics Bowling and Basketball: (2022 – Current)
• Boca Helping Hands through Florida Atlantic Libraries, (December 2023, 2024)
• Veterans Day Event at Fox Trail Elementary (November 2019); Spoke about what it meant to serve in the United States Navy and Life on a Trident Submarine.
• Career Day at Fox Trail Elementary School (February 2019): Spoke to 3rdGrade on what it means to be an Academic Library at FAU.
• Veterans Day Event at Fox Trail Elementary (November 2018); Spoke about what it meant to serve in the United States Navy and Life on a Trident Submarine.
• Career Day at Fox Trail Elementary School (February 2018): Spoke to 2nd Grade on what it means to be an Academic Library at FAU.

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• Screencasting: Screencast-O-Matic
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• Classroom tools: Basecamp, Canva, Canvas, Dropbox, iCloud, Infographics, Inspiration, Kahoot, Padlet, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, Quizizz, Quizlet, WhatsApp