Barbara Fister Office: Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library administration (take a right as you enter the library; my office is all the way down the hall) Phone: 507-933-7553 Fax: 507-933-6292 E-mail: fister@gac.edu I coordinate the library's instruction program and participate in collection development, reference, and collegial management of the library's resources.

Selected Publications

• In the Wind. [fiction] St. Martin's, April 2008. Excerpt.
• Face Value. Inside Higher Ed, February 18, 2008.  
• Reading as a Contact Sport': Online Book Groups and the Social Dimensions of Reading. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 44.4 (Summer 2005): 303-309.
• Copycat Crimes: Crime Fiction and the Marketplace of Anxieties. Clues: A Journal of Detection 23.3 (Spring 2005): 43-56.
• Academic Authors and the Crisis in Publishing Against the Grain 16.3 (June 2004).
• The Devil in the Details: Media Representations of "Ritual Abuse" and Evaluation of Sources SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education 3.2 (May 2003).

Selected Presentations

• Open Access and Books in a Digital World - What Role Should Libraries Play? talk presented at the ALA's Office of Information Technology Policy advisory committee retreat, November 2008.
• Libraries and the Cartography of Knowledge, keynote address presented at the Alaska Library Association Conference, Anchorage, February 2006.
• Smoke and Mirrors: Finding Order in a Chaotic World, plenary address presented at WILU 2005, University of Guelph, Ontario, May 2005.
• True Lies: Libraries, Research, and the Facts of Fiction Presentation at the Cooperating Libraries in Consortium Annual Retreat, Roseville MN, November 2003.
• Reintroducing Students to Good Research Presented to the faculty of Lake Forest College, November 2001.

Courses

• First Term Seminar: The Mysterious World (fall)
• Books and Culture (January term)
• Information Fluency for Graduate Studies (spring)

For more about my work, see my CV. Or to see what I've been reading and thinking about, see my blog. 

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