e-mail: susanss@elmhurst.edu
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1997 - present Director of the Library. Tenured Associate Professor. A.C. Buehler Library. Elmhurst College.
1997 - present Adjunct Faculty. Department of English. Elmhurst College.
1999 - 2000 Adjunct Faculty. Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
1985 – 1997 Head of the Schaffner Library. Northwestern University.
1976 – 1984 Reader Services Librarian. St. Xavier College. Chicago, IL.
2002 Certificate of Advance Study
in Youth Literature and Technology. Rutgers University
School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies
1976 M.A.L.S. Rosary College Graduate School of Library Science. River Forest, IL.
1975 M.A. University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. English.
1974 B.A. Carleton College. Northfield, MN. English, History.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (since 1997)
Rutgers University School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies. Certificate of Advanced Studies in Youth Literature and Technology. 1999-2002 . In Progress. Courses taken: Fantasy and Speculative Fiction (Fall 1999), Voice of the Author (Spring 2000), Female Voices in Historical Narratives (Fall 2000), In Search of Cupid and Psyche: Myth and Legend in Children's Literature (Fall 2001), Gender and Culture in Children's Picture Books (Spring 2002)
Education for Democracy: Facing History. Elmhurst College. August 2000.
TLT Summer Institute. American Association of Higher Education. Technology in Teaching and Learning Roundtable. July 2000.
The Art of Picture Book. Art Institute of Chicago. Association of Library Services for Children. July 2000.
ACRL Harvard Leadership Institute. July 1999.
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshops: Advanced and General Education. Elmhurst College. May 1999.
Association of College and Research Libraries College Library Directors Mentor Program. 1998.
Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop. Elmhurst College. 1997.
PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS ATTENDED (since 1997)
Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. April 1997.
Association of Research Libraries Change Management Training. Governors' State University. September 1997.
llinois Library Association Annual Conference. Springfield, Illinois. October 1997.
Young Adult Literature Conference. Northern Illinois University. October 1998.
Children's Literature Conference. Northern Illinois University. March 1999.
Association of College and Research Libraries National Conference. Detroit, Michigan. April 1999.
Illinois Library Association. Chicago, Illinois. October 1999.
American Library Association. Chicago, Illinois. July 2000.
Young Adult Literature Conference. Northern Illinois University. October 2000.
National Council of Teachers of English. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 2000.
Association of College and Research Library. Denver, Colorado. March 2001.
Best Practices in Information Literacy Project Team. Atlanta, Georgia. June 2002.
American Library Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. June 2002.
Council of Independent Colleges. Transformation of the College Library Workshop. Baltimore, Maryland. September 2002.
Council of Independent Colleges. Chief
Academic Officers Institute. Santa Fe, New Mexico. November 2002.
"Value Added or Virtually Redundant: Elmhurst College and Questia." American Library Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. June 2002.
" Planning the Model Small College Library for the 21st Century ". Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries. Spring Conference, Oak Brook, IL. April 2002
"The Grass IS Greener at College Libraries: Making the Move From Research Library Middle Management to College Library Director." Association of College and Research Libraries 10th National Conference. Denver, Colorado. March 2001.
"Course Web Pages Brought to You By the Library: Supporting Faculty, Promoting Information Literacy." Teaching Styles and Today's Learners: Enhancing Traditional Pedagogies With Technology. Ameritech Faculty Development Technology Program. Lake Forest College. June 23, 2000.
"Online Research Guides: Are They Worth Librarians’ Effort?" Poster session co-presented with Elaine Fetyko Page and Anne Jordan-Baker at Elmhurst College Women Faculty and Research: Who We Are. Elmhurst College. March 2000.
"What Are Employers Looking For: Academic Libraries." Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Alumni Council Career Day. February 2000.
"If You Give A Professor A Web Page". (with Elaine Fetyko Page) Ninth National Conference. Association of College and Research Libraries. Detroit, MI. April 1999.
"Reflections on a Career in Academic Librarianship." Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Alumni Council Career Day. April 1998.
"Elmhurst College Library and the Elmhurst Public Library." (with Marilyn Boria). American Association of University Women. Elmhurst Chapter. November 1997.
"Electronic Reserves at Northwestern University." (with Claire Dougherty) LIBRAS. October 1997.
"Cooperative Collection Management Program and Elmhurst College." Annual Bibliographers Meeting. Cooperative Collection Management Program. Bloomington, Illinois. July 1997.
"Internet Training for Faculty." (with Brian Nielsen) Chicago Area Faculty Development Network. Chicago, IL. November 1996.
"Computing Center/Library Cooperation in the Development of a Major University Service: Northwestern’s Electronic Reserve System." (with Brian Nielsen and M. Claire Dougherty) CAUSE National Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana. December 1995. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cnc9561.html
"Internet Training as Faculty Development." (with Regina Logan) POD Network Annual Conference. North Falmouth, Massachusetts. October 1995.
"Electronic Reserve at Northwestern." (with Claire Dougherty). NOTIS Users Group Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. October 1995.
"Computing Center/Library Cooperation in the Development of a Major University Service: Northwestern’s Electronic Reserve System." (with Brian Nielsen and Claire Dougherty) CAUSE Regional Conference. Evanston, Illinois. August 1995.
"Electronic Reserve at Northwestern." Electronic Reserves: Developing New Partnerships to Provide Support in an Electronic Age. Association of Research Libraries. Chicago, Illinois. March 1995.
"Electronic Reserve: The Northwestern University Experience." 1994 NOTIS Users’ Group Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. October 1994. (with Brian Nielsen)
"The Schaffner Model of Library Services." The Sixth Off-campus Library Services Conference. Kansas City, Missouri. October 1993.
"Invisible Users and the Online Catalog: Results of a Transaction Log Study from an Extended Campus Library." Third National Conference of the Library and Information Technology Association. Denver, Colorado. September 1992.
"Library Services for Adult Students: What Differences Do They Make?" The Twelfth national Conference on Alternative and External Degree Program for Adults sponsored by the Alliance of the American Council on Education. Evanston, Illinois. October 1992.
"Library Services ‘Just in Time’: A Case Study of the Schaffner Library Project." Fall Conference of the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries. Chicago, Illinois. November 1992.
"Part-time Faculty and the Library." LOEX Conference. Ypsilanti, Michigan. May 1991.
"Teaching End Users: Content, System, and Database Choices." Online ’90. Washington, D.C. November 1990.
"Serving the Information Needs of Off-campus Students: Old Questions, New Answers." Fifth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Cincinnati, Ohio. April 1989.
"Library Services for Part-time Management Students: What They Want and What They Need." Fourth Off-campus Library Services Conference. Charleston, South Carolina. October 1988. Co-authored with Jean Alexander.
"Bibliographic Instruction for Adult Students." Roundtable presentation at LOEX Conference, Ypsilanti, Michigan. May 1988.
"Microcomputers and Bibliographic Instruction at the Northwestern University Library." Annual Conference of the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries. Bloomington, Illinois. November 1986. Co-authored with Betsy Baker.
"The Library as an Agent of Quality in an Off-campus Program." Ninth Annual Conference on Quality in Off-campus Credit Programs. Washington, D.C. November 1986. Co-authored with Hilary Ward.
"Working with Part-time Faculty: Challenges and Rewards." Third Off-campus Library Services Conference. Reno, Nevada. October 1986.
"Building Confident Scholars." Sixth National Conference on Adult and External Degree Programs. Chicago, IL October 1986. Co-authored with Hilary Ward.
Faculty as End Users: Strategies, Challenges, and Rewards." LOEX Conference. Ypsilanti, Michigan. May 1986.
"Should Reference Librarians Tamper with the Online Catalog?" RASD Catalog Use Committee Program. American Library Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. July 1985.
"College Faculty Goes Online." Poster Session at American Library Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. July 1985.
"Faculty and Online Searching." Earlham Bibliographic Instruction Workshop. Earlham College. Richmond, Indiana. April 1985.
"College Faculty Goes Online: Training Faculty to Search in a Liberal Arts College." Online ’84. San Francisco, California. October 1984. "Executive Brief" published in Online ’84 Conference Proceedings 1984.
"Online Searching Skills for Intermediate Searchers." LIBRAS. Judson College. Elgin, Illinois. November 1983.
"Online Searching and Readers Services." LIBRAS. Lake Forest College. Lake Forest, Illinois. December 1981.
"LCS and the Delivery of Library Services." Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries. Urbana, Illinois. April 1981.
"Effects of an LCS Conversion Project on Public Services." LIBRAS. St. Xavier College. Chicago, Illinois. December 1979.
"Bibliographic Instruction in Religion and Theology." Chicago Area Theological Librarians Association. Andrews University. Berrien Springs, Michigan. April 1979.
"Torn Thread" In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, In press. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2003.
"Among the Hidden" In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, In press. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2003
"Castaways of the Flying Dutchman." In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. In press.. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2003.
"The Merlin Effect." In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, vol. 14. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2002.
"The Ancient One". In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, vol. 13. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2001.
"Chalmers, Mary Eileen"; "Beskow, Elsa Maartman"; "Cunningham, Julia". In Cullinan, Bernice E. and Diane G. Person, eds. Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Continuum: January 2001.
"Hermione's Notebook: a web site for supplementing the reading of Harry Potter." http://www.elmhurst.edu/~susanss/notebook.html . Created December 1999.
"Computing Center/Library Cooperation in the Development of a Major University Service: Northwestern’s Electronic Reserve System." (with Brian Nielsen and M. Claire Dougherty), 1995. CAUSE. http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cnc9561.html .
"Document Delivery to Off-Campus Students." Illinois Libraries 76 (January 1994): 19-22. (with Kathryn Deiss)
"Joseph Schaffner Library: Northwestern University." Illinois Libraries 76 (January 1994): 42.
"The Schaffner Model of Library Services." In Carol J. Jacob, ed., The Sixth Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mount Pleasant, MI., Central Michigan University, 1993. (with Jerilyn Marshall)
"Library Services for Adult Students: What Difference Do They Make?" In Exploring Our Horizons: Proceedings for the Twelfth National Conference on Alternative and External Degree Programs for Adults. 196-206. 1992. (with Gary S. Ruther)
"The Excitement of a New Information Tool: Lexis/Nexis." Database 14 (August 1991): 94-96. (with Norman Weston)
"Library Development as a Catalyst for Continuing Education Innovation in a Major Research University: A Case Study with an Addendum Co-authored by Susan Swords Steffen." In Off-Campus Library Services: Selected Readings for Central Michigan University’s Off-campus Library Services Conferences. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
"Long-Term Curriculum Change and the Library." Journal of Continuing Higher Education 38 (Fall 1990): 24-27. (with Jean Alexander)
"Partnership for Quality: Non-Traditional Students and the Librarian." In The Librarian in the University. Palmer Hall, ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990.
"Library Services for Part-time Management Students: What They Want and What They Need." In Barton Lessin, ed., The Off-campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mount Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan University Press, 1989. pp. 1-12. (with Jean Alexander)
"Faculty as End Users: Strategies, Challenges, and Rewards." Bibliographic Instruction and Computer Database Searching: Papers Presented at the Fourteenth National LOEX Library Instruction Conference . Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 1989.
"Designing Bibliographic Instruction Programs for Adult Students: The Schaffner Library Experience." Illinois Libraries 70 (December 1988): 644-9.
"Microcomputers and Bibliographic Instruction." Reference Librarian 22 (1988): 223-232. (with Betsy Baker)
"Living With and Managing Change: A Case Study of the Schaffner Library." Illinois Libraries 69 (February 1987): 129-9.
"A Reference Librarian’s Point of View (of tampering with the online catalog)." Journal of Academic Librarianship 12 (January 1987): 341-3.
"Working With Part-time Faculty: Challenges and Rewards." In Barton Lessin, ed., The Off-campus Library Services Conference Proceedings. Mount Pleasant, MI: Central Michigan University Press, 1987. pp. 306-314.
"College Faculty Goes Online: Training Faculty to Search." Journal of Academic Librarianship 12 (July 1986): 147-151.
"The Library as an Agent of Quality in an Off-campus Program." National Issues in Higher Education No. 23 . Kansas State University, 1986. (with Hilary Ward)
"Building Confident Scholars: The Library as Agent of Excellence in Adult Education." Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Adult and External Degree Programs. October 1986. 147-156. (with Hilary Ward)
"LCS and the Delivery of Library Services." Illinois Libraries 64 (January 1982): 46-48.
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Current:
Planning Committee, ILCSCO, 2001-2002.
Coordinating Committee, Illinois Cooperative Collection Managemen Program, 2000-2003.
Past President, LIBRAS, 2001-2002
President, LIBRAS, 2000-2001
Vice President/President-Elect, LIBRAS, 1999-2000
Illinois Library Association Awards Committee, 1999-2001
Suburban Library System Advisory Council, 1998-2000
Dominican University Alumni Leadership Council, 1996-present
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Advisory Board. 1995-present
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Council. 1999-2001
Carleton College Alumni Admissions Representative, 1997-present
Recent:
IACRL/IBHE Liaison Committee, 1997-1999. Chair, 1997-1998.
Treasurer, LIBRAS, 1997-1999
Rosary College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Curriculum Review Committee, 1995-1996
Previous:
Chicago Library System Affiliates Advisory Council, 1988-1990
Member, IACRL Bibliographic Instruction Committee, 1986-1990
Member, IACRL Continuing Education Committee, 1980-1982, 1985-1986
Member, LCS Operations Committee, 1980-1984
Member, LCS User Education Committee, 1980-1982
Beye School Technology Committee, Chair 1992-1997
Beye School Media Center, Technology Consultant, 1993-1994
Friends of the Oak Park Public Library, Board Member, 1994-1996
Professional Memberships:
Member, American Library Association, 1976-present
Member, Illinois Library Association, 1976-present
Member, Illinois Library Association Awards Committee, 1999-2001
Member, Children's Literature Association
Member, Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of National Council of Teachers of English
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Faculty Development Committee. 2001-.
Technology Steering Group. 2000-.
Technology Management Team. 2000-.
Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable. 2000-.
Faculty Representative. Board of Trustees. Student Recruitment, Admission, and Financial Aid Committee. 2000-2002.
General Education Committee. 1998-2001.
President's Technology Taskforce. 1998-2000.
Campus Life Council. Spring 1998. Sabbatical replacement for Don Mason.
Technology Committee. 1997-2000.
Academic Council, ex-officio.
Graduate Education Committee, ex-officio.
Adult Programs Committee, ex-officio.
Co-Chair, Take Our Daughters to Work program, 1999, 2000.
Faculty Women's Caucus.