Institute for Information Literacy Texas Immersion

Faculty List

John Holmes
Coordinator, UWill Project
University of Washington
jwholmes@u.washington.edu

John Holmes has been Coordinator of the UWill Project at the University of Washington Libraries since April 2000. He is the principal investigator for the UWill, a grant-funded, Web-based information literacy project designed to make it easier for instructors to integrate information literacy objectives into their courses by providing templates for online tutorials that may be customized from the desktop and linked to course Web pages. John has been a reference librarian at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library at UW since 1996, has served as Coordinator of the user education program, and has been the instructor for both LIS 560: User Education and Informatics 220: Research Strategies in International Studies in the UW Information School. He was a curriculum developer and trainer in the Washington State Library’s Information Literacy Project, training library staff from across the state, in all library types and at all levels of service, to deliver information literacy instruction to their communities. His publications and presentations have focused on instruction for re-entry students, e-learning issues, and promoting collaborations among public, school, and academic libraries to provide coordinated community learning in information use across the lifespan. Before moving to Seattle, he trained undergraduates at Michigan State University to teach baseline information competencies to their peers at a high-volume information and referral desk.

Dane Ward
Associate Dean of Public Services
Illinois State University
dmward@ilstu.edu

Dane Ward is Associate Dean of Public Services at Illinois State University’s Milner Library where he is responsible for facilitating the development and enhancement of user services. Prior to his current position (which began in March 2002), he worked in academic libraries for ten years, most notably as Coordinator of Information Literacy at Wayne State University, and as Coordinator of Library Instruction at Central Michigan University. He is a frequent workshop presenter and author of articles on information literacy and collaboration. In 2000, he co-edited and co-authored the popular ACRL publication The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe. More recently, he has been interested in the relationship between organizational culture and the development of information literacy programs. Among his professional activities, he has been active in ACRL’s Education and Behavioral Sciences Section and the Michigan Library Association’s (MLA) Information Literacy Roundtable. He is recipient of the MLA Information Literacy Award (2000), and a participant in the Snowbird Leadership Institute (1996). He is a graduate of Indiana University (twice) and Florida State University, with an undergraduate degree in Anthropology (IU), and graduate degrees in Education (FSU), and Library and Information Science (IU). Prior to his library career, Dane worked for the Peace Corps as an English Teacher Trainer in the West African country of Senegal. He subsequently taught social science courses at several small colleges before turning to librarianship.

Susan Barnes Whyte
Library Director
Linfield College
swhyte@linfield.edu

Susan Barnes Whyte is the library director at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Susan has a bachelor’s from Earhlam College and a Master’s in Librarianship from Emory University. Prior to library work, Susan was a practicing musician: a pianist and singer. Upon entering librarianship, Susan has held positions in cataloging, technical services, interlibrary loan, public services, reference and instruction. She has team-taught distance courses and classroom courses in research writing at Linfield. In spring 2004 she taught the first course on teaching and information literacy offered by Emporia State University’s School of Library and Information Management in Portland, Oregon. Susan was awarded the Edith P. Green Distinguished Award for her teaching at Linfield in 1995. She presents often at local, regional and national conferences and workshops. She is a member of the College Library Section of ACRL, the incoming chair of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, and a newly elected member of the OCLC Members Council. She managed the planning, design and construction of the new library at Linfield, which opened fall 2003. She is a graduate of the Frye Institute for Leadership (2002). Susan has a B.A. from Earlham College and a M.Ln. from Emory University.

Beth S. Woodard
Central Information Services Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
bswoodar@uiuc.edu

Beth Woodard has served as a reference librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983. In the Reference Library, she coordinates graduate assistant training and continuing education, and participates in departmental instructional planning and development. Since 2002, she has also served as the library-wide Coordinator for Staff Development and Training. Previously she was a reference librarian at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. From 1993 to 1995, Beth team-taught a course in library use instruction in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. She has served as a consultant for improving instruction programs and teaching skills for librarians at several universities in the Midwest, ranging from one-day sessions to five days. She has served on numerous ALA committees within RUSA (including editor of the RUSA Update and director-at-large) and the ACRL Instruction Section (including secretary and chair). Currently she serves on the ARBA Advisory Board, and chairs the IS Task Force for the Analysis of Instructional Environments. She currently co-edits the Information Literacy column for RUSQ, and serves on the editorial board of Research Strategies. Beth holds a B.A. in English from Illinois Wesleyan University, and an M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Anne E. Zald
Head, Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services
University of Washington
zald@u.washington.edu

Anne E. Zald is the head of Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services at the University of Washington. Anne has been active in UWired since its inception in 1994, working in various capacities to bring technology and information evaluation instruction into the Freshman Interest Group program curriculum, peer instructor training, and 'linked' courses. Anne participated in the ACRL IS Think Tank 3 "Information Literacy and the Technological Transformation of Higher Education" during the ALA 1999 Annual Conference. Professional activities have included stints with ACRL IS Managing Instruction Committee and as a task force chair in SRRT. After receiving her AMLS from the University of Michigan, Anne worked at Wayne State University and Oberlin College prior to joining the University of Washington Libraries as Documents Reference Librarian in 1991. Anne joined the Institute faculty in June 1999.