Professional Responsibilities

• Subject Specialist & Liaison for Educational Psychology
• Subject Specialist & Liaison for Psychology

Affiliations

• American Library Association (ALA)       
• Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
• Education & Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS)
• Psychology/Psychiatry Committee          
• Instruction Section (IS)
• Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
• Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES)
• Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
• Reference Services Section (RSS)                         
• American Psychological Association, Library Advisory Council
• SAGE, Reference Industry Board

Education

            M.L.I.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1990
            Major: Library and Information Science

             B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1985
            Major: Sociology

 Research Interests

• Assessment of user information literacy skills
• Methods for assessing and improving the delivery of information literacy instruction using teacher-centered instruction, including face-to-face classroom instruction and online instruction, and using self-help instruction such as online tutorials, web pages, and research guides
• Analysis and evaluation of online information resources including bibliographic databases and full text collections in meeting user needs
• Bibliographic citation analysis to track trends in the use of information resources