Shannon Fay Johnson is an Assistant Librarian at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Helmke Library. She serves as the library liaison to the departments of Nursing, Consumer and Family Sciences, Dental Education, Geosciences, Biology, Radiography, and Chemistry. Shannon received her M.L.S. from the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University in 2006 but has been working at the IPFW Helmke Library since 2000, first as a student then staff before becoming a member of the library faculty. She is embedded into the nursing program at IPFW and works closely with the informatics and research faculty to provide information literacy instruction at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in what is rapidly becoming an online program. She is the past convener for the Health Sciences Special Interest Group of ACRL and is also involved with the HAIL (Hoosiers and Information Literacy) Project sponsored by the Academic Libraries of Indiana. Shannon spends her spare time volunteering with the Girl Scouts as an adult learning facilitator and managing the archives for the northern portion of the state.
Journal Articles
Before You Write: Six Keys to Success – A Pilot Online Information Literacy Course for Graduate Nursing Students (with Tammy Toscos), Indiana Libraries (2011)
In this article, the authors share their experiences with the creation and implementation of an...
Poster Sessions
Building Library Relationships in Ontulili: Towards an Effort to Establish a Community Library (with Florence Mugambi), Librarian Presentations (2011)
The Ontulili Literacy Project is an innovative literacy initiative whose mission is to establish a...
Conference Presentations
Oooh, Shiny! Adapting services, engaging scholars, and stealing the spotlight with the iPad (with Beth Overhauser), Librarian Presentations (2012)
New technologies offer new opportunities for innovation and engagement. At IPFW, a cohort program put...
All HAIL Information Literacy: Statewide Efforts to Organize Librarians Around Information Literacy (And Why It Matters to You), Librarian Presentations (2012)
Before You Write: Six Keys to Success - Creating Self Contained Information Literacy Modules (with Tammy R. Toscos), Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference (2011)
In today's competitive job market, many working adults are returning to graduate school with rusty...
MedPOWER: Teaming Up to Make a Difference (with Mary K. Ross), Midwest Chapter Medical Library Association/Indiana Health Sciences Librarians Association Annual Meeting (2011)
TASK: To encourage minority and disadvantaged youth in Northeast Indiana to pursue careers in medicine...
Faculty and Librarian Collaboration in Online Instruction: Harnessing the Learning Management System (with Tammy Toscos), Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy (2011)
Tammy Toscos, Nursing Informatics Professor, and Shannon Johnson, Health Sciences Librarian, will share their experiences...
Tutorials
Finding an Item From a Citation (2010)
This short Adobe Captivate tutorial is designed to help students locate an item based on...
Research Articles: Knowing What You've Got and Finding What You Want (2010)
This short Adobe Captivate tutorial walks nursing students through identifying and locating research articles.
Searching CINAHL and MEDLINE Tutorial (2009)
This 20 min. tutorial, done in Adobe Captivate software, is designed to walk nursing students...
What is Evidence Based Practice Literature Searching? Tutorial (2009)
This short Adobe Captivate tutorial is designed to introduce nursing students to EBP literature searching.
Library Presentations
Library Guides
Helmke Library Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Resources (2010)
This guide is designed for use by IPFW students, staff, and faculty looking for information...
Is your nursing article scholarly? Checklist (2010)
This checklist is designed to help IPFW nursing students identify scholarly and research articles.
Literature Searching in the Medical Sciences (2010)
This guide was original designed to complement a presentation and summer course for area AHEC...
Scientific Literature Searching for the Non-Scientist (2010)
This guide was created to accompany an introductory Honors course.