Business Librarian, Assistant Professor

• Provides a full range of information support primarily to the Mays Business School and clients of the West Campus Library.
• Participates in collection development, reference, instruction and liaison activities, including the creation of subject and class guides.
• Serves as the subject specialist and liaison to the department of Management, as well as serves as liaison to the MBA program, Executive MBA program, and Business Honors program.

Biography

Jared Hoppenfeld is originally from Miami, FL where he earned his Bachelor of Business Administration and also had his first work experience in libraries.  While attending the University of Miami, Jared worked in the Access Services department first as a student assistant and eventually becoming day shift supervisor of circulation.  After going into retail management for Walgreens, Jared went back to libraries, this time at the UM Law Library.  He then decided to pursue a Master of Library & Information Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  There he continued working in libraries, in Access Services, Administration, and eventually as Business Librarian.  Jared is currently Business Librarian at the West Campus Library, working as subject specialist for management.

You can find me online at http://twitter.com/JMHBizLibrarian and http://www.facebook.com/jared.m.hoppenfeld.  Or feel free to chat with me in the Meebo widget below.

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Education

• Completed 6 credit hours in MBA Program

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

• Master of Arts in Library and Information Science, 2006

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

• Bachelor of Business Administration, Major: Marketing, 2001

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA)
  • Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
    • Instruction Section
    • University Libraries Section
  • Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
    • Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
      • Education Committee
    • Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES)
    • Machine Assisted Reference Services Section (MARS)
    • Reference Services Section (RSS)
      • Virtual Reference Online Tutorial Subcommittee
  • Library Instruction Roundtable (LIRT)

Research Interests

• Use of technology to improve customer experience
• Library 2.0 technologies
• Self-sufficiency of students
• Future of libraries: library as place, resource sharing, and more!
• Faculty/student involvement in collection development

Selected Papers

• Hoppenfeld, Jared. "Keeping Students Engaged with Web-Based Polling in the Library Instruction Session." Library Hi Tech. 30:2 (2012) 235-252.
• Hoppenfeld, Jared and Wendi Arant-Kaspar. "Do-It-Yourself for Course Reserves: A Student-Driven Service in an Academic Library." Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, 20:5 (November 2010) 353-361.
• Powers, Audrey, Cheryl McCoy, Matt Torrence, and Jared Hoppenfeld. "Reconfiguring Collection Development for the Future: A Faculty Print Serials Review." In Charleston Conference Proceedings 2009 held in Charleston, SC, 4 to 7 November 2009. Katina Strauch, Beth Bernhardt, and Leah Hinds eds. Charleston, SC: Against the Grain Press, 2010. p. 186-194. Available at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10601762/2009_CCProceedings_final.pdf
• Hoppenfeld, Jared. "Attending an FLA Conference: Impressions and Tips from a New Librarian." Florida Libraries 52:1 (Spring 2009) 15-16.