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Doug Highsmith

Coordinator of Instructional and
Interpretive Services

Phone: (510) 885-3610
email: doug.highsmith@csueastbay.edu
Fax: (510) 885-2049
Location: Hayward Campus Library- LI2031
 


Current Responsibilities:

Coordinator of Instructional and Interpretive Services.  Reference; Instruction; Liaison -- departments in the School of Business and Economics; Collection Development responsibilities -- Management & Finance, and Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Education:

AB, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MSLS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MBA, Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL

Course(s) Taught:
Library 1010 (Fundamentals of Information Literacy)

Office Hours:

  • Monday 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Thursday 11:00am - 12:00pm

Web Pages, Power Point Presentations & Library Guides Prepared:

Library Resources for CSUEB Overseas MBA Students

CCLI Poster Session: LIBY1010 & Other Collaborative Info. Competency Activities

CARL 2004 Conference ABLE Preconference: Top 10 Business Questions Anyone Should Be Able to Answer

Popular Culture Association 2005: Comics Built to Last -- A Survey of Academic Library Holdings of Graphic Novels & Hardcover Comic Book Collections

Directory of  My Power Point Presentations & Library Guides


Research Interests:

Popular culture, individual investing & mutual funds

Recent Scholarship (last 5 years):

Book Contributions:

Fantasy and Horror: a Critical and Historical Guide
, edited by Neil Barron—co-author of chapter on "Fantasy and Horror Art and Illustration"

Magazines for Libraries (7th-11th editions)—co-author of section on "Comic Books"

Articles:

"About Face: Comic Books in Library Literature," published in Serials Review v. 26, no. 2 (2000) -- co-author.

Presentations:

"The Coverage of Comic Books in Magazines for Libraries, 1969 - 2002" -- paper presented at Popular Culture Association 32nd Annual Conference (March 2002)

"About Face: Comic Books in Library Literature, 1970s-1990s" -- paper presented at Popular Culture Association 31st  Annual Conference (April 2001)

"Library 1010: Fundamentals of Information Literacy, & Other Collaborative Information Competency Activities at CSU, Hayward"-- poster session presented at California Clearinghouse for Library Information workshop (April 2001)

"The Archives of Popular Culture at California State University, Fullerton"—paper presented at Popular Culture Association 29th Annual Conference (April 1999)

"The Long, Strange Trip of Barbara Gordon: Depictions of Librarians in Comic Books"—paper presented at Popular Culture  Association 28th Annual Conference (April 1998)

 


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