Science Librarian at Penn State

Attitudes of Presidents and Provosts on the University "provosts' and presidents' newly stated indicators of centrality - such as innovation, campus visibility, and acquisition of outside funding - and then linking the library's strategic issues and actions to them"

The Development and Validation of the Information Literacy Test should probably be read by those responsible for general information literacy or coordinate those efforts at their university

The University Library and the Problem of Knowledge should be called "Libraries involvement with university program reviews and the impact on collection development"

Finding Information in a New Landscape: Developing New Service and Staffing Models for Mediated Information Services should be called "How to staff your information commons" and will be a useful read to some of my colleagues working on the Knowledge Commons, but Science Librarians should pay special attention to their Reference and Circulation study and findings. Also has an interesting review of real dollar $$ savings from Chat reference. Best article in the issue and lots of different topics.

Critical Thinking Disposition and Library Anxiety: Affective Domains on the Space of Information Seeking and Use in Academic Libraries - Hey, I love empirical data and studies as much as the next engineer turned librarian, but SKIP TO THE CONCLUSION.