As the Coordinator for Digital Collections, Barbara is responsible for project management and scheduling of the Library's Digital Collections and Services group. Her goals include improving the productivity and capacity of digitization operations and enhancing the visibility and accessibility of digital collections. Barbara received her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from General Motors Institute and her M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. After working 25 years as an Industrial Engineer and Information Systems Analyst for companies such as General Motors, Corning, and Nortel Networks, she began her graduate studies in academic librarianship. Barbara worked as a graduate assistant at the USF Tampa Library, gaining practical experience in her new career field and contributing to the library services and collections available to the USF academic community. She joined the USF faculty as Outreach Librarian for the Tampa Library in 2005. Her research interests include information seeking behavior and collection assessment and she is hoping to begin graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology soon.
Articles
Making Decisions: Using Electronic Data Collection to Re-Envision Reference Services at the USF Tampa Libraries (with Lily Todorinova, Andy Huse, and Matt Torrence), Public Services Quarterly (2011)
Declining reference statistics, diminishing human resources, and the desire to be more proactive and embedded...
"Change or Perish: Implementing Aeon in the University of South Florida Tampa Library's Special Collections" (with Mark I. Greenberg), The Oracle (2011)
Special collections and the new web: Using LibGuides to provide meaningful access (with Melanie Griffin), Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship (2011)
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons; using...
Transforming special collections through innovative uses for LibGuides (with Melanie Griffin), Collection Building (2011)
Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the utility of Springshare’s LibGuides platform for special...
Contributions to Books
Researching the World’s Information (with Andrew M. Smith), USF University Experience Textbook (2008)
Unpublished Papers
Re-envisioning reference services for the libraries of the USF Tampa Campus: A report by the Re‐Envisioning Reference Project Team (with Susan Ariew, Ardis Hanson, Andy Huse, Drew Smith, Lily Todorinova, and Matt Torrence), Tampa, FL: University of South Florida Library System (2011)
This report outlines the results of the work of the Re‐Envisioning Reference Project Team of...
CORAL: USF Libraries Digital Collections White Paper (with Mark I. Greenberg and Richard R. Bernardy, Jr.), Mark I. Greenberg (2010)
This white paper seeks to explain why the University of South Florida Libraries Special &...
Digital Collections Task Force Report (with Brian Falato, Richard Bernardy, Pete Reehling, Ilene Frank, and University of South Florida) (2008)
Libraries, museums, archives, and similar institutions worldwide are digitizing their physical collections and creating born‐digital...
Presentations
Open-Source Based Solutions for Processing, Preserving, and Presenting Oral Histories (with Mark I. Greenberg and Richard R. Bernardy Jr.), Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections in North America: Development, Utilization, Potential (2011)
For more than a decade, the University of South Florida Library's Oral History Program has...
What the Heart Remembers: the Women and Children of Darfur (with Audrey Powers), VRA + ARLIS/NA 2011: 2nd Joint Conference (2011)
The University of South Florida Tampa Library received and digitized original materials created by refugee...
Coordinating and Marketing Digital Collections, Society of Florida Archivists (2010)
Coordinating and Marketing Digital Collections
1. What is a digital collection?
2. Staffing / Organization
...Other
Transforming Special Collections: A (Lib)Guide to Innovation. Peer-reviewed poster session presented at the American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference. (with Melanie Griffin) (2010)
“Special Collections as Laboratories,” a recent posting on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s The Wired...
READ Out Loud: What READers Say About Their Books.” Peer-reviewed poster session presented at the Florida Library Association 2008 Annual Conference. (2008)
Many libraries have adopted the READ poster program, some using local celebrities to personalize the...