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• Coordinator of Reference Services and Reference Librarian, Phillips Memorial Library 
• Associate Professor

• Indiana University-Bloomington
  • M.L.S., 1984    
  • B.A. in German, 1983

My library instruction courses have included: English; Social Work; History; Political Science; Psychology; and various School of Continuing Education courses.

Teaching occurs in many situations in the library. When I assist students at the reference desk, on the phone, via e-mail or chat, for example, I teach them at least some of the skills they need in order to become independent researchers as well as skills to distinguish appropriate, authoritative sources from inappropriate ones. I also teach students in formal library instruction classes. My philosophy in all of my library teaching situations is to enable students to realize the vast store of resources that is available to them through the library and beyond, and to teach them the skills they need to identify and use those resources.

I serve as chair of our Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN) consortium's collection development committee and on the HELIN committee council. HELIN is a model library consortium consisting of ten academic and fifteen health sciences libraries in Rhode Island. I'm also a member of the steering committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries/New England Chapter's Information Technology Interest Group; I will be the chair of that group next year. I feel it's vital to be engaged and active in the profession beyond my responsibilities at the library.

• Head of Public Services - Providence College; Providence, Rhode Island, January 1991 - June 2001 (in June 2001, the position was changed to her current title, Coordinator of Reference Services).
• Reference Librarian (head of department) - Stonehill College; North Easton, Massachusetts, September 1987-January 1991
• Reference/Circulation Librarian - University of South Carolina-Coastal Carolina College; Conway, South Carolina, January 1985 - August 1987

Publication Highlights

• Review of Historical Statistics of the United States online, The Charleston Advisor, Volume 8, Number 7, January 2007
• With Paul Bazin and Norman Desmarais: “Periodicals collection management: Organizing, creating, and maintaining a system” Library Management, vol. 27, issue 9, 2006, pp. 590-599
• Review of Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908 – 1981 online, The Charleston Advisor, Volume 7, Number 4, April 2006
• “Development and implementation of an online database for bibliographic control of government documents in a selective depository”, with Margaret F. Myers, Administrative Notes: newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program, July 31, 1990, pp.19-22.

Selected Scholarly Presentations and Activities

• New England Library Association annual conference -Manchester, New Hampshire: "Periodicals Collection Management: Organizing, Creating, and Maintaining a System," September 2004
• Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition- Charleston, South Carolina: "Periodicals Collection Management: Organizing, Creating, and Implementing a System," November 7, 2003
• Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries; Serials Committee meeting - Providence, College; Providence, Rhode Island: "Providence College's experience with Serials Solutions," January 16, 2003
• Association of College and Research Libraries; Information Technology Interest Group meeting - College of the Holy Cross; Worcester, Massachusetts: "Virtual Reference in the HELIN consortium," November 4, 2002
• Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries; Serials Committee meeting - Providence, College; Providence, Rhode Island: "Providence College's Access database for periodicals collection management system," 2002
• Association of College and Research Libraries; Information Technology Interest Group meeting - Rivier College; Nashua, New Hampshire: "The Wireless Network at Providence College's Phillips Memorial Library," August 31, 2001

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