User:Browns

Stephanie Willen Brown

Library Experience

Electronic Resources Librarian and Communication Sciences and Psychology Liaison at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; August 2005 to present.
Adjunct Professor at Simmons GSLIS, Spring 2003 to present. Courses include
- Reference/Information Services, LIS 407
- Digital Information Services & Providers, LIS 454
Database Services Librarian and liaison to the department of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, August 2000 to August 2005.
Library Director, Springfield Union-News, November 1996 to December 1999.

with Chelsea C. Hammond. Citation Searching: Search Smarter & Find More. Computers in Libraries, v28, n5 (2008).
The Reference Interview: Theories and Practice, Library Philosophy and Practice (LPP), February 2008.
[The Reference Interview: Theory and Practice] "Intervista referale: teori dhe praktika," [Article in Albanian] Biblioletra, v4, n2 (2007): 7-11.
The Adjunct Life, Library Journal, June 15, 2007.
Test, Edit, Repeat: Steps to Improve Your Web Site Computers in Libraries 22.10 (2002): 14+.
An innovative first-year instruction program at Hampshire College, with Bonnie Vigeland. College & Research Libraries News, July / August 2001.

CogSci Librarian blogging about some things cognitive- and some things library-science.
ELibrary blog to keep current about electronic resources @ UConn.
Occasional blogger at ACRLog.

(partial list)

Co-presenter, "Marketing Library Database Services to End Users." the North American Serials Interest Group Annual Meeting, Phoenix, June 6, 2008.
Co-presenter, "Live Web Usability Lab." Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference, April 29, 2008.
Presenter, "The Adjunct Life and other LIS Extra-curricular Activities." Pioneer Valley Association of Academic Librarians meeting, March 27, 2008.
Usability Testing: Worth the Effort? for Eastern Connecticut State University, January 8, 2008; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, July 10, 2007; and for Simmons GSLIS West @ Mount Holyoke, March 24, 2007.
Co-moderator, roundtable discussion “Finding Software to Manage Electronic Resources: Realistic or Just Herding Cats?” ACRL 13th National Conference, March 2007.
Crossing the Chasm: from Cutting Edge to Practical Application Library 2.0 Tools for everyone. Capital District Library Council, Albany, New York, April 24, 2006.
Co-presenter, “The Librarian as Teacher: Personalized Library Instruction Programs,” ACRL 11th National Conference, April 2003.

SFX Program Chair, ELUNA 2008
iCONN Database Selection Committee
Member, American Library Association
Member, American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Communications coordinator, ASIS&T SIG USE

A.B., Mount Holyoke College, French literature & American history, May 1985.
- Université de Paris – Sorbonne, Certificat Pratique de Langue Française, May 1984.
Master of Science, Library and Information Science, Simmons College, January 1999.
- Inducted Beta Phi Mu, spring 1999
- News Libraries: Leadership for the 21st Century, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, February 1998.