In my role as Information Literacy and Staff Development Librarian at McMaster, I work to enhance and assess library teaching and learning programs, services and spaces. I played a lead role in the Library’s successful transition to a blended service model by creating, designing, implementing and evaluating an eight-month training program for library paraprofessionals. I have led numerous projects, including launching communities of practice for the McMaster community, coordinating McGill University Library's Discover McGill outreach program, and co-chairing the WILU 2010 conference. In 2010, I facilitated the implementation of Ontario's Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Level Expectations and the new Quality Assurance Framework during an eleven-month secondment to the Council of Ontario Universities. The project web site, webinars and briefs are available from the links on the right hand side of this page. I have ten years of experience in Canadian university libraries with a record of successfully implementing major strategic initiatives and creating community. I am the first Canadian to be selected to join the faculty of the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) Information Literacy Immersion programs. I am currently pursuing doctoral studies on a part-time basis in Library and Information Science at the University of Western Ontario.
Articles
Using Communities of Practice to Foster Faculty Development in Higher Education. (with Christopher Teeter, Nancy Fenton, Terry Flynn, Joseph Kim, Muriel McKay, Bridget O'Shaughnessy, and Susan Vajoczki), Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching (CELT) (2011)
An exploration of the role of Canadian academic libraries in promoting academic integrity (with Lorie Kloda), International Journal for Educational Integrity (2007)
Travailler ensemble pour mieux (in)former : le partenariat bibliothécaire-professeur dans la promotion de l’intégrité intellectuelle, Documentation et bibliothèques (2006)
La reproduction artistique chez Michel Tournier : aliénation, mise à mort et renaissance, Littératures (1993)
Unpublished Papers
From Attributes to Outcomes. Council of Ontario Universities Degree Level Expectations Project. (2010)
A brief overview of strategies for writing learning outcomes
Mapping Outcomes. Council of Ontario Universities Degree Level Expectations Project. (2010)
A brief overview of strategies for mapping program-level learning outcomes
Outcome-Based Education. Council of Ontario Universities Degree Level Expectations Project (2010)
A brief overview of outcome-based education
Popular Press
Student information research skills: Report on a Quebec-wide study on information literacy (with Patrick Labelle), Feliciter (2005)
Presentations
Creating a Library Template for Quality Assurance Reporting, Ontario Council of University Libraries IR Working Group (2011)
Building relationships through embedded librarianship [Panel session] (with Andrew Colgoni and Krista Godfrey), ACRL 15th National Conference (2011)
Learn about three alternative models to embedded librarians as a means to build relationships and...
QAF, UUDLEs and GDLEs: What Ontario's New Quality Assurance Framework means for academic librarians. (with Dana Thomas and Carol Stephenson), Ontario Library Association Super Conference 2011. (2011)
In 2010, Ontario implemented a new Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) that replaces UPRAC and OCGS...
Fenton, N., Flynn, T., McKay, M., Nicholson, K., & Teeter, C.J. (2010). Using communities of practice to foster faculty development in higher education, Society for Teaching and Learning In Higher Education 30th Annual Conference. (2010)