| As an academic librarian and assistant professor at Gustavus, I provide reference service, teach library instruction classes and liaison with the Classics; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Political Science; and Religion departments. With special responsibilities in collections access, I undertake projects designed to better connect patrons to our collections. I serve on several library and campus-wide committees and I am also the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning Faculty Associate for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I invite you to view my vita for more information about my professional work.
My research interests include investigating the impact of multiple instruction sessions on student information literacy skills, recreational reading on college campuses, the future of the catalog/ILS, library anxiety, and future trends in article databases. I am especially interested in the scholarlship of teaching and learning as it relates to library and research skills. Education Dominican University, River Forest, IL St. John's University School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, MN Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN Select Presentations & Publications “Bigger is (Maybe) Better: Librarians’ Views of Interdisciplinary Databases.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 22.1/2 (2010): 65-80. “Assessing Integrated Library Components to Enhance Information Literacy in Political Science” (co-author with Christopher Gilbert). Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments. Eds. Thomas Mackey and Trudi Jacobson. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2010. “Using Assessment Data to Investigate Library Instruction for First Year Students.” Communications in Information Literacy. 3.2 (2009): 181-192. “Reading Matters: Examining the Role of Recreational Reading in Academic Libraries.” Presentation with Barbara Fister at the Library Research Round Table Forum at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, July 9-15, 2009. Slides / PDF version “Mashing Media Mentions of Scientific Studies: Tracing Newspaper Articles Back to Their Sources.” Library Instruction Cookbook: 50+ Active Recipes for 1-Shot Sessions. Eds. Ryan Sittler and Doug Cook. Chicago: ACRL, 2009. “Aggregated Interdisciplinary Databases and the Needs of Undergraduate Researchers” (co-author with Barbara Fister and Amy Fry). portal: Libraries and the Academy, 8 (2008): 273-292. Article For more information about my work, see my CV. Schedule If you are a member of the Gustavus community, you can view my schedule through Google calendars. Send me an email to schedule a class visit, meeting, or student appointment. See what I've been reading:
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