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
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.
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.
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.
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:
Fall 2003, vol. 18, no. 2 (pdf)*
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:
Newspaper article in the Fargo Forum newspaper entitled "Libraries lock down for privacy";
Newspaper article in MSUM’s student newspaper, The Advocate;
Lead news story on MSUM’s student-run news station, Campus News;
20-minute live interview on Scott Hennen’s Hot Talk; and
Segment with reporter Kevin Wallevand on WDAY evening news.
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.