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Stephanie Willen Brown

Contents 1 Library Experience 2 Publications 3 Blogs 4 Presentations 5 Professional Memberships 6 Education

Library Experience

• Director, Park Library at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication; June 2009 to present.
• Electronic Resources Librarian and Communication Sciences and Psychology Liaison at the University of Connecticut, Storrs; August 2005 to April 2009.
• Adjunct Professor at Simmons GSLIS, Spring 2003 to May 2009. Courses include
  • Reference/Information Services, LIS 407; currently teaching, Spring 2009.
  • Digital Information Services & Providers, LIS 454, last taught, Spring 2008.
• 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.

Publications

• Fuller, Kate, Livingston, J., Brown, Stephanie Willen, Cowan, Susanna, Wood, Thomas, & Porter, Leslie. (2009). "Making Unmediated Access to E-resources a Reality: Creating a Usable ERM Interface." Reference & User Services Quarterly. 48(3), 287-301.
• King, David Lee, & Brown, S. W. (2009). Emerging Trends, 2.0, and Libraries. The Serials Librarian. 56(1), 32.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen, & Hammond, C. C. (2008). Peer to Peer: UConn's Experiment with Student 'Ambassadors' for Vendor-funded Training on Specialized Searching. Library Journal. 133(15), 28-30.
• Hammond, C. C., & Brown, Stephanie Willen. (2008). Citation Searching: Search Smarter & Find More. Computers in Libraries. 28(5), 10-61.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen. (2008). The reference interview: Theories and practice. Library Philosophy & Practice. 10(1), 1-8.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen. (2007). [The Reference Interview: Theory and Practice] "Intervista referale: teori dhe praktika," [Article in Albanian] Biblioletra. 4(2), 7-11.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen. (2007). The Adjunct Life. Library Journal. 132(11), 42-44.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen. Test, Edit, Repeat: Steps to Improve Your Web Site Computers in Libraries. 22.10 (2002): 14+.
• Brown, Stephanie Willen and Bonnie Vigeland. (2001). "An Innovative First-year Instruction Program at Hampshire College." College & Research Libraries News. 62(7), 717.

Blogs

• CogSci Librarian blogging about some things cognitive- and some things library-science. 2004 to present.
• JoMC Park Library blogging and editing about resources at the Park Library at UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. 2009-present.
• ELibrary blog to keep current about electronic resources @ UConn. 2005-2009.
• Occasional blogger at ACRLog.

Presentations

(partial list)

• Live Usability Lab: See One, Do One & Take One Home. Connecticut State Library Continuing Education, September 11, 2008 and April 2, 2009.
• "Peer 2 Peer Library Training & Marketing." Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, February 12, 2009.
• Co-presenter, with Chelsea Hammond, "Peer-to-peer Training at UConn and @ Your Library." Simmons GSLIS West, November 15, 2008.
• Co-presenter, with Carol Abatelli and Steve Cauffman, "Live Web Usability Lab." CASL Conference 2008 (the Connecticut Association of School Librarians), November 10, 2008.
• Co-presenter, with Susan Teague Rector, Live Usability Lab, Ex Libris Users Group of North America Annual Meeting, July 31, 2008.
• Co-presenter, with Brie Betz and Deb Barberi, "Marketing Library Database Services to End Users." the North American Serials Interest Group Annual Meeting, Phoenix, June 6, 2008.
• Co-presenter, with Carol Abatelli and Steve Cauffman, "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.

Professional Memberships

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

Education

• 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.