WCSU Libraries

I serve as Public Services Librarian at the Ruth A. Haas Library at Western Connecticut State University.  My University title is Librarian (full rank).  I am a member of the faculty at WCSU and participate in library and university-wide committees.  

In this position, I provide:

• reference and research services to students and faculty as part of a reference team;
  
• research assistance, bibliographic instruction and collection management services to the Departments of Education/Educational Psychology, Nursing, and Health Promotion and Exercise Sciences (HPX). 
  
• I manage and maintain subject sections of the library website, which includes the production and maintenance of research guides in Education, Nursing, and HPX. 
  
• Finally, I manage the Haas Library Curriculum Collection, which encompasses teacher professional resources and children's/young adult fiction and non-fiction collections. 
  

University Senate Sub-Committees and Library Committees 2012-13

University Senate Sub-Committees

• Research & Development Committee
• Distance Education Committee
• Enrollment Management Committee
  

Library

• Departmental Evaluation Committee
  
• Public Service Committee (Chair)
• Engaging Students Working Group
• Engaging Faculty Working Group (Coordinator)
  
• Library Learning Commons Ad Hoc Committee
  

Professional Activities/Service

• Publications and Communication Committee, Education and Behavioral Science Section, Association of College & Research Libraries, Virtual Member 2012-14
• Curriculum Materials Committee, Education and Behavioral Science Section, ACRL, Member 2011-13
  
• Reviewer, social sciences titles, Choice Magazine
  
• Internet Resource Reviewer, College and Research Libraries News 
  

M.S., Information Sciences (M.L.S.), 1997, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

M.A., Folklore, 1996, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

B.A., Communications, 1986, University of Pennsylvania (Honors in the Major)