Resume of Stacy L. Voeller
Library 119
Minnesota State University Moorhead
1104 7th Avenue South
Moorhead, MN  56563
218-477-2348
email voeller@mnstate.edu

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EDUCATION

MS in Public, Human Service, & Health Administration (PHSHA) from Minnesota State University Moorhead, October 6, 2006.
MS in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, on August 3, 1995.
BA in English from Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN, on November 19, 1993.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Electronic Resources Librarian and Assistant Professor

Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University Moorhead, September 1996 through present. Received tenure August 2001 and promotion to Assistant Professor.  The Electronic Resources Librarian provides consultation and advice to the Director, Librarians, and staff about hardware, software, and electronic resources to a standard consistent with recognized professional criteria.  Other responsibilities and duties include coordinates local and remote electronic database and resource services, coordinates and maintains the Library’s Web Site, provides computer software and hardware maintenance, provides remote access and proxy server assistance, supervises Student Assistant Supervisor and student assistants assigned to electronic resources, assumes responsibility at the Reference Desk as assigned and agreed upon, provides library instruction and staff training, assumes some collection development responsibilities for specific areas.    

Public Services Librarian

Lamar University-Orange Library, September 1995 to August 1996. Oversaw, developed and executed procedures and policies for circulation, reserve, interlibrary loan, and reference service in a totally automated two-year community college library. Facilitated electronic resources such as OCLC’s FIRSTSEARCH, UMI Proquest, Dialog, and Internet Services. Hired and trained public service staff. Provided all library instruction classes. Expanded bibliographic instruction and collection development programs. Worked with faculty and students to enhance library programs.

Graduate Assistant

Research and Information Services, University of Kentucky, May 1994 to August 1995. Reference, Government Publications, and Maps Department assistance at the main library of an ARL Regional Depository institution serving 24,000 students and 2,200 faculty members. Primary duties included staffing the service desk, handling telephone information requests, bibliographic searching and verification, and interpretation of patron requests. These activities demanded teaching the use of various tools to patrons. Used electronic databases such as NOTIS, OCLC, FirstSearch, Internet, Netscape, Mosaic, and SilverPlatter CD-ROMs for answering patron questions and providing patron instruction. Edited MARC records in NOTIS. Conducted training sessions on CD-ROM databases for department professionals and fellow graduate assistants.

Library Assistant

Circulation, Moorhead Public Library, Lake Agassiz Regional Library System, June 1989 to May 1992. Provided patron assistance regarding selecting, locating, and checking out materials. Successfully assisted with automation of library to the Data Research System by entering materials into the automated catalog. Successfully met challenges a newly automated system provides. Oversaw A-V collection of video cassettes, audio cassettes, talking books, compact discs, and sound filmstrips. Oversaw toy collection. Experience with IBM compatible and Apple computers. Assisted with the collection development of A-V materials.

Internship

Technical Services, Lake Agassiz Regional Library System, June 1993 to August 1993. Performed cataloging, catalog maintenance, filing, materials receiving, and data entry duties in the Data Research System.

COURSES TAUGHT

FYE 101, First Year Experience, Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2003, Fall 2006 & will teach in Fall 2008.
Ed 489/589, Research in the Electronic Age, Continuing Education course taught Fall 1999.
Ed 422/522, Electronic Resources:  Issues & Practice.  Will be teaching Spring 2008.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of the American Library Association (ALA) since July 1994.
Member of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) since July 1998.
Member of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) since 1998.
Currently serving on LITA's Bylaws Committee.
Currently serving on LITA's Research and Assessment Committee.
Currently chairing ACRL's College Libraries Section Leadership Committee.
Member of the reporting staff of Cognotes, ALA's conference newspaper, since January 2007 (see below for published articles).

GRANTS & AWARDS

Received a 19A Peer Review Grant to attend ACRL's Institute for Information Literacy Immersion in August 2007.

Received a 19A Peer Review Grant to attend ALA's Annual Conference in June of 2007.

Received an IPESL Grant to write a case study of MSUM's Information Literacy Assessment initiatives and develop a plan for assessing Information Literacy in the Dragon Core Curriculum for the Dragon Core Assessment Committee.

Along with Rhonda Ficek, Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Director of Instructional Technology, and Carol Sibley, Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Curriculum Materials Center Librarian, wrote and received a Strategic Planning Grant to create the Library Instruction/Instructional Technology Center, which was implemented during the 1997/1998 academic year.  This center serves as a training/instruction center for faculty, staff and students in the use of technology in instruction and in the use of traditional and electronic information resources.

Along with Brittney Goodman and Rhonda Ficek, completed work on a web-based self-paced tutorial, “Searching Library Databases (WinSPIRS),” funded in part by a MnSCU Information Technology Task Force grant.  It is currently housed on the Classweb server at the following location:  http://classweb.moorhead.msus.edu/chenault/libdb 

Together with Brittney Goodman, received a Lead Faculty Mini-Grant for course development of a library/Internet research course, “Research in the Electronic Age.”  Submitted a course proposal form to Continuing Studies in early February.  The course would be 2 credits, offered in Fall 1999, ED489/589 (undergraduate and graduate credit).

Worked as a Consultant to Brittney Goodman on a grant to create two Internet Search Techniques CD-ROM and web-based tutorials, funded in the amount of $2,050.  This Learning by Doing Faculty Innovation project was completed during Summer, 1999.

Along with Ficek, and Brittney Goodman, Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Instruction/Reference Librarian, wrote and received a MnSCU Information Technology Subcommittee’s Distance Learning Initiative grant for the proposal “Information Technology Skills Module” for Searching Library Databases and Searching the Internet during the summer of 1998, and currently housed on the MSU Classweb server.  

Also during summer of 1998, with Goodman, created two Internet Search Techniques CD-ROM and web-based tutorials, funded in the amount of $2,050.  

Awarded a Graduate Assistantship from the University of Kentucky for the length of my coursework which included a monetary stipend and a scholarship for the amount of the out-of-state portion of tuition.

Committee Assignments

Serving on LITA's Bylaws Committee.

Chairing on ACRL's College Libraries Section Leadership Committee.

Serving on LITA's Assessment and Research Committee.

Currently serving on numerous university-related committees such as the Paralegal Advisory Committee, Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee, Dragon Core Assessment Committee & University Writing Committee.

Publications

Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) journal reviewer.

Technology Electronic Reviews (TER) Editorial Board Member of the following issues:

Women's Studies Section Newsletter Assistant Editor for the following issues:

Wrote a conference report published in Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 19, No. 8, 2002, entitled “Can Electronic Preservation Work?” summarizing the LITA President’s Program at ALA Annual in Atlanta.

A Fine Excess (Book Review).   By: Voeller, Stacy. Library Journal, 12/01/2000, Vol. 125 Issue 20, p131.

Article published entitled, Grant-seeking in Women's Studies: a Webography, for the Women's Studies Section Newsletter (Fall 2000 Volume 15, Number 2) which is published by the Women’s Studies Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

Voeller, Stacy L. “Get Your Patrons to Participate in Assessment Activities.” Cognotes 22 Jan. 2007:  8.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2007/Cognotes-MonJan22.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L. “Is the Reference Collection Shrinking?”  Cognotes Highlights Issue:  2.

Voeller, Stacy L. “Library Visionary Frederick Kilgour Honored,”  Cognotes 22 Jan. 2007:  3.
http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/midwinter/2007/Cognotes-MonJan22.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L.  Reprint of “Get Your Patrons to Participate in Assessment Activities.”  Cognotes Highlights Issue:  10.

Voeller, Stacy L. “Best Practices in Visual Literacy.” Cognotes Issue 4 June 26, 2007:  8.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/Cognotes-AN07-Tuesday1.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L. “Communication Makes the World Go ‘Round.” Cognotes Issue 3 June 25, 2007:  3, 18.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/Cognotes-AN07-Monday1.pdf & http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/CognotesAN07-Monday2.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L. “Creating a Historical Collection with Impact.” Cognotes Issue 1 June 23, 2007:  8.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/Cognotes-AN07-Saturday-1.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L. “Making the Library a Safe Haven.” Cognotes Issue 4 June 26, 2007:  1, 15.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/Cognotes-AN07-Tuesday1.pdf & http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/Cognotes-AN07-Tuesday2.pdf  (This article also reprinted in the Highlights Issue which is mailed out to more than 60,000 ALA members)

Voeller, Stacy L. “What Librarians Can Learn From Gamers.” Cognotes Issue 3 June 25, 2007:  13.  http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2007a/CognotesAN07-Monday2.pdf

Voeller, Stacy L.  "Privacy Policy Assessment for the Livingston Lord Library at Minnesota State University Moorhead."  Library Philosophy and Practice, to be published November 2007.

Voeller, Stacy L.  "Best Practices in Public Service Librarianship."  Public Services Quarterly, to be published March/April 2008.

Presentations

Provided a Brown Bag Session with Travis Dolence on Information Literacy October 10, 2007.

Presented a MSUM Academic Affairs Deans' Lecture Series entitled:  "What’s the big deal? Confidentiality & its implications for libraries & the University community" on Thursday, February 9, at 3:30 pm.  The lecture included the following:
"Confidentiality and libraries are not a new combination, but the events of 9/11 and the passage of the USA Patriot Act have given libraries cause for concern. Libraries need to ensure that confidentiality and other relevant policies are up-to-date, and the University community needs to be informed. Other implications for higher education, including intellectual freedom, will be discussed."

Several items of note happened because of this lecture, and included:

Provided a Brown Bag Seminar on Web Usability Testing in collaboration with Brittney Goodman during Spring 2003.

Presented a session on "Web Usability Studies" in conjunction with Stephen Westman (Ohio State University Library) and Mary Axford (Georgia Tech Library) for the Internet Resources Interest Group of the Library and Information Technology Association during ALA's MidWinter 2001 Conference on January 14, 2001.

Organized and moderated a breakout session for the MnSCU Library Planning Day conference regarding “New Ways to Connect to Users” during the April 2000 conference.

Along with Brittney Goodman, a proposal was accepted for Moorhead State University’s Poster Presentation and Resource Fair on Innovations for Teaching with Technology.  The poster session was presented April1 1999.