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
What the heart remembers: The women and children of Darfur (with Audrey Powers), Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America (2012)
In 2009, the University of South Florida (USF) Libraries received from the organization Waging Peace...
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
Tablet technology in support of professional productivity (with Drew Smith), Tablet computers in the academic library (2013)
In 1987, Apple Computer, as it was then known, produced a five-minute video about potential...
Researching the World’s Information (with Andrew M. Smith), USF University Experience Textbook (2008)
Presentations
Oral History Curation in an Academic Library (with Mary Beth Isaacson, Kimberly Nordon, and Alexandra Curran), Oral History Association Annual Meeting [Conference] (2013)
This four-person roundtable will discuss the different methods and applications that are currently being used...
Data-Driven Decision Making: A Holistic Approach to Assessment in Special Collections Repositories (with Melanie Griffin and Mark I. Greenberg), 2012 Library Assessment Conference (2012)
Faced with shrinking budgets and reduced staffing, the University of South Florida Libraries Special &...
Informed Desk Staffing with Quantified Reference Statistics: Using Electronic Data Collection to Re-Envision Reference Services at the USF Tampa Libraries (with Lily Todorinova, Andy Huse, and Matt Torrence), American Library Association Annual Conference (2011)
Andy Huse, Barbara Lewis, Lily Todorinova, and Matt Torrence participated in a panel presentation for...
Students, Faculty, and the Library: Research at the University of South Florida (with Susan Silver, Matt Torrence, and Drew Smith), American Library Association Annual Conference, 2011 (2011)
This study will assess various aspects of library services and resources from the user perspective,...
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...
Unpublished Papers
Re-envisioning Reference Services at the USF Tampa Campus Library: A Report by the RR2 Taskforce (with Dennis J. Smith, Megan Sheffield, Zoraya Betancourt, Carol Ann Borchert, Susan Silver, and Drew Smith) (2012)
During Fall 2011, the Re-envisioning Reference 2 Taskforce was charged with planning for the next...
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...
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...