Library - Diane Richards

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Responsibilities:

Primarily, I serve as the coordinator of collection development and management activities in the library. I also provide research consultations, collaborate on creating Library assignments for classes, and develop handouts and bibliographies for class presentations. I offer appointments for individual assistance, for such needs as:

• Orientation to the library
• Tours of the library
• Database searching instruction
• Internet instruction

Additionally, I serve as library liaison to these departments:

• Health Science (Faculty contact: Dawn Larsen)
• Nursing (Faculty contact: Linda Wenkel and Carol Larson)

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PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Education:

Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln, Nebraska
B.A. 1969 English

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
M.L.S. 1973

Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Moorhead, Minnesota
M.L.A. 1995

Experience:

Collection Development Coordinator
Minnesota State University, Mankato Memorial Library
Mankato, MN
September, 1996-Present

• Coordinates collection development activities at Minnesota State University, Mankato's Memorial Library.
• These include preparing the Library materials budget, assuring that it is expended in timely manner, and coordinating weeding projects.
• Provide reference and bibliographic instruction as requested.

Social Sciences Librarian
North Dakota State University Library
Fargo, North Dakota
June, 1998-September, 1996

• Responsible for all library services, including collection development and bibliographic instruction, for faculty and students in the College of Business Administration, the College of Human development and Education, and the Departments of Economics, Pyschology, Political Science, and Sociology/Anthropology.
• Provide full range of reference services at the general reference desk of a highly automated land-grantn university library.
• Coordinator for DISC, the fee-based service operating out of the NDSU Library.

Reference Librarian
Washington State University Holland Library
Pullman, WA 99164
September, 1986- May, 1988

• Provide full range of reference service in social sciences and humanities at a land-grant university. primary areas served were business, law, communications, and government documents.
• Provided regular reference service in the Education Library.

Publications:

“Customizing a Legislative Mandate:  Cooperative Collection Development in Minnesota.”  Resource Sharing & Information Networks 16(1-2):79-101, 2002

“Making One Size Fit All:  Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Manage a Legislative Mandate for Cooperative Collection Development.”  Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services 25:93-112, 2001.

“Navigate the Net:  Controversial Issues:  Female Genital Mutilation,” Medical Reference Services Quarterly 19(4):79-88, Winter 2000.The North Dakota

Foundation Directory, with Rebecca Gardner. Fargo, ND: North Dakota State University Library, 1993.

"Establishing a fee-based Service in a Rural Setting," The Bottom Line 5(1):14-17, Spring 1991.

"MAC MICRO: Solving the problems of microcomputer applications in an academic library," College and Research Libraries News 49(11):748-749, December 1988.

Numerous book and media reviews for American Reference Books Annual, RQ, and Choice.

Professional Accomplishments & Memberships:

• Member of reactor panel for keynote address at ARLD Day, April 2004
• Presented a paper, “Student Outcomes Assessment: Implications for Collection Assessment in Academic Libraries,” at Timberline Acquisitions Conference, May 2003
• Presented a paper, "Information Gathering Assignment on Female Genital Mutilation," at Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing Fall Conference, October 1999.
• Presented a paper, "Making One Size Fit All: Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Manage a Legislative Mandate for Cooperative Collection Devlopment," at the Acquisitions Institute at Timberline Lodge, May 2000.
• Representative from Minnesota State University, Mankato on the Minitex Electronic Information Resources Task Force, 1999-2000
• Minnesota State University, Mankato representative on MNSCU Cooperative Collection development Task Force, 1998-Present. Chair of the task force, 2000-2001
• Member of Research Committee, Extended campus Library Services Section, ACRL, 1995-1996
• Chair of F.I.S.C.A.L. (Fee-based Information Service Centers in Academic Libraries), an A.L.A. Discussion Group, 1992-1993

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