• Milner Library, room 418
  • Drop-by
• Schroeder Hall - Spring Semester hours
  • 1:00 - 3:00 PM - Politics & Government (SCH 432)
  • 3:00 - 4:00 PM - Criminal Justice Sciences (SCH 448)
• Also available by appointment.

• Subject Specialist Librarian for Criminal Justice, Law, Military Science, and Politics & Government
• Committee membership
  • Faculty Research & Development Committee
  • Library Faculty Council

• Political Engagement Project Coordinating Council, Chair
• University Review Committee, Vice-Chair and Milner Library representative

Professional Activities

• American Library Association
  • Association of College and Research Libraries
    • Law and Political Science Section
      • Chair
      • Executive Committee, member
      • Conference Program Planning Committee, ex officio member
  • ALA Center for Public Life - Advisory Council, member

Publications:

• "Human Rights Reference Sources: A Critical Annotated Bibliography," Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 29:1 (January 2010): 32-64, with Stephanie Davis-Kahl [post-print]
• Magazines for Libraries, New Providence, NJ: ProQuest
  • "Population Studies" section in 19th ed., 2011
  • "Population Studies" section in 17th ed., 2009
• International Relations, International Security, and Comparative Politics: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. (Reference Sources in the Social Sciences). Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
• Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators, Association of College and Research Libraries, June 2007, with ACRL IS Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians Task Force members Clara Fowler (chair), Carla Wilson Buss and Susan Vega Garcia (citing publications)
  -- also available from C&RL News, 68:9 (October 2007): 570-75
• "Accessing Digital Libraries: A Study of ARL Members’ Digital Projects," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 32:4 (July 2006): 364-369, with Sarah Williams (citing publications)

Exhibit

• Thoughts on Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's Four Freedom Posters Exhibit, February 12 - May 7, 2010, with Jan Paterson

Professional Presentations:

• 2011 American Democracy Project National Meeting, "Town and Gown: First Steps in a Campus-Community Civic Engagement Partnership for Deliberative Democracy Forums," June 4, 2011
• Writing for the Profession(s), "Milner Resources," October 25, 2010, with Michaelene Cox, Cris Embree, Shamira Gelbman, Melanie Goss, Steve Hunt, Gary Klass, Claire Lamonica, Kimberly Nance, Josh Reid, Kam Shapiro, T.Y. Wang
• 2010 American Democracy Project National Meeting, "Thoughts on Democracy Exhibit: What about the Arts?," June 18, 2010, with Janet Paterson
• 2010 Midwest Political Science Association, "What is the Role of Annual Human Rights Reviews? Examining Biases in U.S. Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights," April 22, 2010, with Stephanie Davis-Kahl
• Information Literacy Summit 2010, "Information Literacy & Civic Engagement," April 20, 2010
• Teaching & Learning in a Diverse Community of Scholars: A University-Wide Symposium on Teaching and Learning, "A Tale of Two Courses: Collaboration, Critical Inquiry, and Information Literacy," January 7, 2009, with John Hooker, Nancy McKinney and Sally Parry.
• Innovative Partnerships for Student Learning, Working and Learning Together, "Critical Inquiry in the First Year," September 26, 2008, with John Hooker, Nancy McKinney and Sally Parry.
• Best Practices in Library Instruction Forum, CARLI I-Share Instruction Team, "Implementing Technology: Using Classroom Control System Software," November 7, 2007, with Maureen Brunsdale
• Information Literacy Summit 2007, "Information Literacy Illinois: Reaching Beyond Libraries," April 24, 2007, with Lorna Engels
• Forty-Third Annual Community College and University English Articulation Conference, "Teaching Composition and Communication as Critical Inquiry," April 18, 2007, with Bob Broad, Patricia Meckstroth and Sally Parry
• Information Literacy Summit 2006, "Information Literacy at the Reference Desk - Panel Discussion," April 6, 2006, moderator, with Dawn Bussey, Meg Frazier and Kathy Krepps, and April 21, 2006, panelist, with Anita Beaman, Jane Chamberlain and Meg Frazier
• Making Connections: Fostering Integration of Learning: A University-Wide Symposium on Teaching and Learning, "1st Year Critical Thinking and Information Literacy," January 11, 2006, with Bob Broad, Jennifer Hootman, Steve Hunt, Pat Meckstroth, Sally Parry and Cheri Simonds
• ISU College of Business, Technology Buffet: Using Technology to Increase Teaching Effectiveness, "Cheating and Technology," November 16, 2005, with Jennifer Hootman
• Illinois Library Association 2005 Annual Conference, "Creating an Information Literacy Plan," October 12, 2005, with Jennifer Hootman
• The Ewing Symposium: An Inter-Departmental Conference, "The Role of Information Literacy Assessment in ISU's Basic Communication Course in the Development of the New COM 110," April 1, 2005, with Jennifer Hootman, Megan Hopper, Stephen Hunt, Kevin Meyer, Vicky Tsoumbakopoulus and Kaylee Van Hoose
• 56th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, “Opening the Gates of Information Literacy,” March 16, 2005, with Claire Lamonica and Jan Neuleib.
• Enhancing the Campus Learning Culture: A University-Wide Symposium on Teaching and Learning, "Critical Thinking and Information Literacy," January 12, 2005, with Lorie Heggie, Jennifer Hootman, Steve Hunt, Claire Lamonica, Jan Neuleib, Jonathan Rosenthal and Cheri Simonds
• Internet Librarian 2004, "Accessibility of ARL Academic Libraries' Digital Library Projects," November 15, 2004, with Sarah Williams
• LIBRAS 2004 Workshop, "Information Literacy 101," November 10, 2004, with Dane Ward
• Illinois Library Association 2004 Annual Conference, "The ABCs: Assess Before Change," October 1, 2004, with Jennifer Hootman
• American Library Association 2004 Annual Conference, poster session, "If You Build It, Will They Come? Access to ARL Members' Digital Libraries," June 28, 2004, with Sarah Williams and Jan Johnson
• Illinois School Library Media Association Workshop, "Making Connections: Partnering to Provide Basic Information Literacy Education in Your High School," May 1, 2004, with Susan Braxton, Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Julia Dickinson and Jennifer Hootman
• Illinois Association of College & Research Libraries 2004 Spring Conference, "Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Defining Information Literacy on Your Campus," April 1, 2004, with Jennifer Hootman
  • Exercise #1 worksheets: Standard 1 | Standard 2 | Standard 3 | Standard 4 | Standard 5
  • Exercise #2 worksheet
  • Comparison of ACRL Information Literacy Standards with four other standards
    
  • Milner Library's new definition of information literacy
• Partnerships for Teaching and Learning: A Campus-Wide Symposium, "Students and Research: Revisited," January 7, 2004, with Jennifer Hootman and Dane Ward
• American Library Association 2003 Annual Conference, LITA Pre-Conference, "Breaking Free: Recreating Your Library Web Site From A-Z: Conducting Usability Studies presentation," June 20, 2003, with Scott Breivold, Romelia Salinas, Stephen Sottong and Holly Yu [entire presentation]
• California State University, Los Angeles, Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, Winter 2003 Brown Bag Bytes, " Usability Testing of CSULA Library Web - Library Web2 Project," March 6, 2003, with Holly Yu
• California Library Association 104^th Annual Conference, "Building a Library Web Site for the 21^st Century: An Update," Sacramento, CA, November 18, 2002, with Scott Breivold, Stephen Sottong and Holly Yu
• American Library Association 2002 Annual Conference, "Keeping Up Appearances...How We Re-invented Our Library Website for the 21^st Century," Atlanta, GA, June 14, 2002, with with Scott Breivold, Stephen Sottong and Holly Yu
• Pasadena City College, Information Competence Workshop, ""Meeting the Information Competency Needs of Transfer Students," Altadena, CA, May 1, 2002
• The Southern California Online Users Group Spring Workshop 2002, "Who Plays on the Information Team?: An Academic Librarian's Perspective," Long Beach, CA, April 19, 2002
• Internet Librarian 2001, "Rebuilding a Library Web Site for the 21^st Century: Preparing for the Journey," Pasadena, CA, November 6, 2001, with Scott Breivold, Stephen Sottong and Holly Yu
• California Library Association 103^rd Annual Conference, "Rebuilding a Library Web Site for the 21^st Century: A Roadmap for Change," Long Beach, CA, November 5, 2001, with Scott Breivold, Stephen Sottong and Holly Yu
• Marymount College Development Day, "Two Perspectives on Information Literacy Needs of Transfer Students," Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, February 20, 2001, with Sarah McDaniel
• 2001 southern California Instruction Librarians Open House, "Wireless Technologies in Library Instruction," Los Angeles, CA, January 5, 2001 [facilitator for entire presentation]

Education

• Master of Science, 1998
  Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master of Arts, 1996
  Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bachelor of Arts, 1993
  Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Community Activities

• The Living Democracy Project of Bloomington-Normal

Curriculum Vitae

• .pdf format