As the Distance Services Librarian I use technology to reach people virtually and face to face.  Some of my projects include creating mobile apps and teaching app development.  Smiling students are what librarians hope for and assisting them through information literacy or providing books makes everything worthwhile.  Students can use library skills to create projects and win awards. 
One of my new projects is using virtual and augmented reality to reduce library anxiety in information seeking behavior. 

Research Interest 

• Information Seeking Behavior
• Virtual and Augmented Reality and it's affect on Information Seeking Behavior
• Underrepresented Populations and their use of Libraries 

Grants

• 2015—Picket Fences Revisited—Humanities Texas.  Lisa Stafford, Principal Investigator, E.J Brumfield & Phyllis Earles, Co-Principal Investigators
• 2014—Expanding Library Support for Faculty Research-Mellon Grant Project--HBCU Library Alliance Faculty/Librarian Advisory Committee.  Sandra Phoenix, Principal Investigator
• 2014—Library Mobile Solutions Pt 2--Texas State Libraries and Archives Commission funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, U.S. Department of Education. E.J. Brumfield, Principal Investigator
• 2013—Library Mobile Solutions--Texas State and Archives Commission funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, U.S. Department of Education.  E.J. Brumfield, Principal Investigator

Additional Links:

• American Libraries Magazine  americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/09/22/changing-perspectives-exchange-ifla-imls/
• Highlights and Take Aways: Emory Summer Institute with HBCU Library Alliance https://lyrasis.adobeconnect.com/_a782640538/p180ax4s9wc/?proto=true
• Black Caucus of the American Library Association--Bio  www.bcala.org/elizabeth-jean-brumfield/
• Prairie View Co-eds all Girl Band.  prairieviewcoeds.wordpress.com/
• ​Digital Library Federation Reflections  www.diglib.org/dlf-fellow-reflection-elizabeth-brumfield/
• ​Introduction to Mobile Apps by E.J. Brumfield  sunyla2015.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/sunyla-conference-mobile-app-handout.pdf
• Highlights from the National Conference of African Americans  lj.libraryjournal.com/2017/08/shows-events/highlights-from-the-national-conference-of-african-american-librarians/#_
• ​13th Off Campus Library Conference.  Using Online Tutorials to Reduce Uncertainty in Information Seeking Behavior                           (pg 81)  www.cmich.edu/library/DLSPRoceedings/13thOCLSCP.pdf
• Jill Hurst Wall syllabus for  Creating, Managing and Preserving Digital Assets, ICT 677,  Syracuse University (E.J. Brumfield required reading)    my.ischool.syr.edu/uploads/coursesyllabus/ist605_f2011-1121.16244-61af3c22-f376-416f-a05d-253c03cd7bc1.pdf