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Megan A. Brooks
Director, Research & Instruction
Wellesley College Information Services
106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481
Email: madams@wellesley.edu
Phone: 781-283-3512, Fax: 781-283-3690

Education

B.A., College of Saint Benedict, Psychology, May 1993
M.L.S., Syracuse University, School of Information Studies, December 1995

Career History

Wellesley College Information Services
Wellesley, MA 02481

Swarthmore College Library
Swarthmore, PA 19081

University of Northern Iowa Library
Cedar Falls, IA 50613

Louisiana State University Libraries
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Presentations

Wellesley Plus: Integrating Library and IT into a Supplementary First Year Experience (.ppt)

Heather Woods, Director of Digital Media and Instruction, and I presented this session at the 2007 NERCOMP SIG on IT/Library Collaborations in Teaching and Learning and at the 2008 New England Association of Independent School Librarians annual conference.

Abstract: Wellesley College is piloting a supplementary program for a small number of first-year students in 07-08. Along with enhanced advising and co-curricular support, students are attending a weekly 2.5 hour lab session taught by Information Services staff covering finding, analyzing and producing information in print, graphics, audio and video. In this lab, which runs in conjunction with their expository writing courses, students will experience a range of strategies for planning, research, content development, and publication. Because the lab is being co-taught by our library and technical staff we are able to provide the students with a more comprehensive and connected look at information history, sources and production.

Cooperative Monographic Collection Development, Pt. 3: Developing a Shared Approval Plan: The Tri-Colleges Experience

At the 2005 Charleston Conference, Amy McColl, Bob Kieft, and I talked about two shared approval plans, piloted in 2004-2005 in the Tri-College Consortium (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). The Tri-Colleges used YBP’s GOBI system in order to create shared, virtual approval plans among the three colleges using two different approaches. Discussions focused on how the idea for the projects evolved (Kieft), bibliographer input into approval profile design (Adams), and technical workflow (McColl).

Evaluting Women’s Studies Resources: Building Upon Collaborative Strengths

At the 2003 ALA/CLA Annual Conference, Kelly Barrick Hovendick, Mary Nofsinger, and I presented a poster session on the Core Lists in Women’s Studies developed and maintained by the Women’s Studies Section of ACRL.

Collaborative Virtual Reference Services: The Tri-College Libraries Experience

At the 2003 Mid-Atlantic Regional Educause Conference, Mark Colvson from Bryn Mawr College and I gave a presentation on the Tri-College Libraries’ LiveHelp service.

Collaborative Virtual Reference Services: The Tri-College Libraries Experience

At the 2002 Educause Conference, Mark Colvson from Bryn Mawr College and I presented a poster session on the Tri-College Libraries’ LiveHelp service.

Building a Web-Based Library Orientation through Competition and Cooperation

At the 1999 ILA/ACRL Spring Conference, Beth Clausen, Susan Moore, Barb Weeg, and I presented a session focusing on the cooperative and competitive tactics used to obtain desired resources and skills for the creation of the Rod Library Orientation.

Library Services for Distance Education

Workshops and presentations delivered to library and education groups through SK-LIBRIS: The Slovakia Free Flow of Information Project, March 12-27, 1999, Bratislava and Nitra, Slovakia. With Barbara Safford.

Underpaid? Under-employed? Under-appreciated?: The Systems Approach to Job Hunting

In June 1997, Penny Beile and I presented a poster session at the ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. This web site includes the handout given at the poster session, as well as web resources for library job hunting.

LOLA+ Presentation

This was given at the NOTIS User’s Group Meeting in September 1997 that shows off the unified electronic reference workstation used at LSU Libraries in 1997.

Publications

Beile, Penny M. and Adams, Megan M. (July 2000). “Other Duties As Assigned: Emerging Trends in the Academic Library Job Market.” College & Research Libraries, 61 (4) 336-347.

Adams, Megan. (1999). “WSS Annual Program: Inquiring and Learning Between the Lines: Interdisciplinary Research and the Academic Library.” Women’s Studies Section Newsletter 14 (2), 4.

Adams, Megan. (1996). “Evaluation of Cabinet-Level World Wide Web Homepages.” Government Information Quarterly 13 (3), 329-335.

Reviewer for CHOICE, 1996-2003.

Professional Activities

Association of College and Research Libraries’ Women’s Studies Section

2006-2007: WSS Awards Committee chair
2005-2006: Chair of WSS
2004-2005: Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of WSS
2000-present: compiler of WSSLinks page on Women & Politics
2000-2004: editor of WSS web site
1998-2001: co-editor of Corelists in Women’s Studies
1997-2008: compiler of corelist on women and law