Connie Foster is Head of the Department of Library Technical Services (DLTS). Located on the third floor of Cravens Library, DLTS is composed of five areas: Serials, Bibliographic Access, Acquisitions/Collection Services, and the department head’s office which oversees Student Personnel and Library Systems. The department has 7 faculty, 13 staff, and 10 student assistants. Foster is also editor of Serials Review and administrator for TopSCHOLARtm, The Research and Creative Activity Database of WKU. For 2009-2010 she will be chair-elect of the Continuing Resources Section, ALCTS, American Library Association. She is past president of the North American Serials Interest Group.
Articles
Random Thoughts about Volume 34, 2008, and Some Insights into Journal Production, DLTS Faculty Publications (2008)
Institutional Repositories—Strategies for the Present and Future, DLTS Faculty Publications (2008)
Institutional repositories can create exciting possibilities for scholarly communication with access, discovery, and permanency for...
Unpublished Papers
Where in the World Is Library Technical Services? Finding Ourselves in Fun, Learning, and Food, DLTS Faculty Publications (2009)
Public libraries do it, historical societies are a natural, especially in Boston; media centers incorporate...
Presentations
Institutional Repositories: Strategies for the Present and Future, North American Serials Interest Group Conference, 2008 (2008)
Institutional repositories are tools to support, disseminate and showcase the scholarly communications and intellectual life...
Engaging the Spirit 2007: TopSCHOLAR™: Creating Information Possibilities, TopSCHOLAR Presentations and Reports (2007)
TopSCHOLAR™ is “The Database of Research and Creative Activity of Western Kentucky University.” It offers...
Misc.
TopSCHOLAR®: Creating Opportunities (with Jennifer Wilson), TopSCHOLAR Presentations and Reports (2009)
Creating a SelectedWorks Site, SelectedWorks™ (2009)
A PowerPoint presentation on how to create a SelectedWorks(tm) site for faculty research.