Responsible for administering the library's information literacy instruction program, including curriculum development, outreach, assessment, planning, and professional development for teaching librarians. Research interests include faculty/librarian collaboration, the information seeking behavior of college students, and the role of information literacy in rhetoric and composition instruction.
Articles
Re-framing information literacy: Problem-based learning as informed learning (with Anne Diekema and Heather Leary), Library and Information Science Research (2011)
This study explores an online information literacy module that uses problem-based learning (PBL). The goal...
The Role of Information Architecture in Designing a Third-Generation Library Website (with Jennifer Duncan), College and Research Libraries (2008)
Library web sites have evolved over the past decade, from simple pages with a few...
Instruction in a Virtual Environment: Assessing the Needs for an Online Tutorial (with Sharolyn Erickson, Britt Fagerheim, Rob Morrison, and Flora Shrode), The Reference Librarian (2006)
In 2002, librarians at the Utah State University (USU) Libraries were awarded a grant to...
Integrating Information Literacy with a Sequenced English Composition Curriculum (with Britt A. Fagerheim), portal: Libraries and the Academy (2006)
This article details the process of implementing a sequenced information literacy program for two core...
Extending the Reach of Librarians: Library Peer Mentor Program at Utah State University (with Cynthia Nordgren), College and Research Libraries News (2005)
In January 2004, Utah State University Libraries (USU) launched its Library Peer Mentor (LPM) Program....
Contributions to Books
Instruction by the Numbers: Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning (with Erin L. Davis and Pamela N. Martin), Library Data: Empowering Practice and Persuasion (2009)
Outcomes assessment has been a mandate across higher education for at least a decade, and...
Presentations
From Active Learning to Activity: Getting Beyond Busy Work and into Deep Learning, Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) (2010)
This session will report on an ethnographic study of an English composition class. The researcher...
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Librarianship (with Flora G. Shrode and Jennifer R. Duncan), ACRL/LLAMA Spring Virtual Institute (2010)
Librarians from Utah State University explain recent efforts to encourage subject librarians to take a...
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Subject Librarianship (with Jennifer Duncan and Flora Shrode), ACRL/LLAMA Spring Virtual Institute (2010)
Librarians from Utah State University explain recent efforts to encourage subject librarians to take a...
Teaching Information Literacy with Authentic Problems: Creating and Using an Online Module (with Heather Leary and Anne Diekema), Library Faculty & Staff Presentations (2009)
The American Library Association defines information literacy as a “set of skills needed to find,...
OpenCourseWare
Information Literacy: Finding and Using Information, January 2009 (with Anne Diekema and Heather Leary), Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences (2009)
This course is for learning information literacy skills, especially those related to using an academic...