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Jennifer Laherty

Reference/Instruction Librarian

Phone: (510) 885-2555
email: jennifer.laherty@csueastbay.edu
Fax: (510) 885-2049
Location: Hayward Campus Library
Office: LI 2019B
Office Hours: By appointment


Current Responsibilities:

Liaison to the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Geology, Health Sciences, and Nursing. Designated government documents librarian. Library instruction team member.

Education:

B.A. Comparative Literature, Indiana University.
M.L.S., Indiana University.

Course(s) Taught:

Library 1010 (Fundamentals of Information Literacy)
Library 1551 (Information Skills in the Electronic Age)


Research Interests:

Electronic journal access, information literacy, the changing role of science librarians, and access to government information in all formats.

Recent Scholarship (last 5 years)

"Teaching Information Literacy to Generation Y: Tested Strategies for Reaching the Headphone-Wearing, Itchy Mouse-Fingered, and Frequently Paged," a poster session for the ACRL 10th National Conference, Spring 2001. By Judith Faust, Elizabeth A.
Ginno, Jennifer Laherty and Kate Manuel. Available at http://www.library.csuhayward.edu/staff/ginno/acrl/

"Responding to Fire! Coping Strategies, Lessons Learned, and Planning for the Future," a poster session presentation for the ACRL 10th National Conference, March 2001. Denver, CO. By Judith Faust, Elizabeth Ginno, Myoung-Ja Lee Kwon, Jennifer Laherty, and Ilene Rockman.

Laherty, Jennifer. (2001) Captology, or, the study of computers as persuasive technologies.  The Bayline: Official Bulletin of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter, March/April.  Available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/sfsla/bulletin/janfeb01/nettalk.html

Laherty, Jennifer. (2000) Promoting Information Literacy for Science Education Programs: Correlating the National Science Education Content Standards with the Association of College and Research Libraries Information Competency Standards for Higher Education.  Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 28.  Available at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-fall/

"Responding to Fire!  Coping Strategies and Lessons Learned" Poster Session presentation at the California Academic & Research Libraries Association Annual Conference. October 6-7, 2000. Long Beach, CA.

"The Future? Info Lit Required!" Poster Session presentation at the California Academic & Research Libraries Association Annual Conference. October 10-12, 1999. Pacific Grove, CA.

Required! Info Lit Course Integrated with G. E. Clusters at CSUEB. Poster Session presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference. June 26-29, 1999. New Orleans.

Laherty, Jennifer. (1999). SEAL-N Field Trip: Bodega Marine Laboratory. CARL Newsletter, 22 (2), 7-8.

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