Experience

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  Touro university

  Oct 2007 - now

  Library information literacy director & scholarly innovations team lead

  Founder and Chair of Library Outreach Committee (2024)Student Success Committee Member (2024)Co-Chair - Middle States Evidence Inventory Working Group (2022-2024)Co-recipient (from Office of the Provost) mini-grant to train faculty on all aspects of OER (2022) Co-PI - NNLM grant on creating and supporting OER for allied health/health sciences (2021)Co-creator - Inaugural Faculty Fellowship Program to train faculty on all aspects of OER (2021)Creator - Inaugural Touro OER Ambassador for faculty fellows (2021)Certificate recipient - Touro College Academy of Leadership & Management (TCALM) Class of 2019 • Spearheaded and currently co-Lead, Open Touro, a library initiative on promoting, adopting, and implementing open educational resources (OER) across the university.*Over $900,000 has been saved for students on textbooks since 2018 University-wide. • Spearheaded and currently co-leading Touro Scholar, Touro's institutional repository, collecting and exhibiting Touro’s faculty publications and scholarly achievements. ● Reach out proactively to faculty and departments as faculty liaison to promote the library and its instructional and research services● Participate in campus-wide committees, programs, workshops, and events to advocate for the library, its role in learning, teaching, and supporting research ● Develop new opportunities for library instruction by working collegially with faculty in all disciplines, such as the Embedded Library Program● Assess student-learning outcomes according to ACRL Information Literacy Frameworks, share results with faculty, librarians, and University stakeholders● Lead, create, and implement Information Literacy assessment instruments and surveys for internal and external assessment and accreditation purposes● Coordinate the Social Media presence of the library● Develop and conduct library workshops and webinars for faculty Show less