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Genevieve Williams, Undergraduate Research Librarian

Publications

Peer reviewed:

Antelopes of Desire: Knowledge, Documentation, and Love in the Works of Geoff Ryman, Extrapolation, Summer 2008
Unclear on the Context: Refocusing on Information Literacy’s Evaluative Component in the Age of Google, Library Philosophy and Practice, Spring 2007

Professional:

PRIMO Site of the Month Interview: APA Exposed: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about APA but Were Afraid to Ask, January 2010
How to Sip from the Firehose, Info Career Trends, January 2008
INVISIBLE LIBRARY: Riding the Wave to Library Transparency, ACRL Washington Newsletter, 61: Fall 2007
Tailoring Information Literacy to Information Need, ACRL Washington Newsletter, 57: Fall 2005

Reviews:

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals, Library Journal, 135: 4, March 1, 2010
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original, Library Journal, 134: 14, September 1, 2009
Short Takes: Instrument Instruction
(review of several teach-yourself instrumental instruction manuals), Library Journal, 134: 9, May 15, 2009
Google Blogger for Dummies (review), The Tech Static, May 11, 2009
Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings We Make (review), Library Journal, 134: 5, March 15, 2009
RoJaRo (review), Notes, 65: 2, December 2008
The Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist: America's Lost Musical Genius (review), Library Journal, 133: 20, December 1, 2008
Hello! Series (review), The Tech Static, November 10, 2008
The Early Information Society: Information Management in Britain Before the Computer (review), Libraries & the Cultural Record, 43: 3, 2008
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (review), Library Journal, 133: 11, July 15, 2008
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn-Dance Radio (review), Library Journal, 133: 6, April 1, 2008
Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (review), Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 10: 3, December 2007
Sibelius (review), Library Journal, 132: 20, December 15, 2007
Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing (review), Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 9: 3, Winter 2006-2007
Rock’s Backpages (review), Notes, 63: 1, Fall 2006

Projects:

PLU library website redesign, launched May 2007
Reading for the Future Study Guides and Teachers’ Notes, Science Fiction Museum (www.sfhomeworld.org), Summer 2004. Titles covered: The Giver, A Wrinkle in Time, Bellwether, Ender’s Game, Fahrenheit 451, The Left Hand of Darkness, Parable of the Sower
Gallery Resources Book Index, Science Fiction Museum (www.sfhomeworld.org), Summer 2004. Designed index, created controlled vocabulary, wrote summaries of books

Presentations:

Perspectives on E-Textbooks Adoption, PLU Fall Faculty Conference, 2009 (with Leon Reisberg, Kristi Dopp, and Michael Lasfetto) Invisible Library, InfoCamp Seattle, 2008
The Changing Information Landscape: Students, Faculty, Research, and the Library, PLU Fall Faculty Conference, 2008 Building Blocks for Student Research, PLU Fall Faculty Conference, 2007 (with Holly Senn, Emily Mize, and J.P. Avila)
Undergraduate Research Brown Bag: Presentation on the History and Future Development of Scholarly Research Literature, 2007 (PLU undergraduate research program)
Tools for Evidence-Based Practice for School Nurses, Keeping Kids in the Classroom, 2007 (continuing nursing education program)
A System for Frontline Notification of Emerging Infectious Disease, American Society for Information Science and Technology Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting, 2005 (with Corprew Reed and John Larson)
iCareer Symposium, University of Washington Information School, January 2005 (with ASIS&T UW student chapter and invited panelists from different careers in library and information science)