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Surface Address	Learning Resources Services St. Cloud State University 720 4th Avenue South St. Cloud, MN 56301-4498
Email Address	kewing@stcloudstate.edu
Telephone Numbers	Office: 320.308.4824 FAX: 320.308.5623

Research Interests

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Academic

Changes in scholarly communication; information seeking behavior; opportunities for collaboration among libraries to improve efficiencies; the development of digital library resources and their integration into online courses; international exchanges to promote learning and personal growth.

Minnesota Digital Library, a statewide collaborative initiative under the MINITEX umbrella. It's primary product is Minnesota Reflections.

Instruction

Courses currently offered under the Semester System

IM 452/552: Access to Information.

[URL: https://199.17.24.3/im552/].

This course is an introduction to the varieties of information resources commonly found in public, academic, school, corporate, and special libraries and used by individuals to fulfill information needs. In the course of evaluating commonly used information tools, participants discuss some of the social, political, economic, psychological, and technological contexts in which information and libraries exist. While designed for Information Media majors who upon graduation may assume professional positions as information/training designers, researchers, school media specialists, or librarians, the course content is widely beneficial in most disciplines.

An older version of the class is online. The Web pages are not current.

Courses taught previously (1995-2005)
Content will be retained online but not updated; external links will not be maintained.

British Studies at Alnwick Castle

Academic program director for Summer 2004. Taught IM 486: Seminar: Travel Photography and INTL 299: Introduction to the British Experience.

IM 644: Technologies for Libraries and School Media Centers.

This course provides students with the ability to define and analyze technology issues associated with information acquisition, processing, storage, and delivery; emphasis on online public access catalogs, CD-ROM, Internet, and associated hardware, software, and networking issues.

IM 645: Computer Information Access.

An investigation of the varieties of ways to access information in electronic environments, with emphasis on Internet search tools. Discussion of social and cultural impact of digital information. Design and creation of hypertext resources.

Personal

Japanese literature in translation; literature and history of the Pacific Northwest; contemporary Scottish and Irish literature; travel and photography.

Selected Publications and Presentations

MnPALS Needs Assessment Survey Results (2009)

Presentation on behalf of the MnPALS Needs Assessment Task Force at the MnPALS Fall User Conference at the Wellstone Center, St. Paul, MN, 28 October 2009. Also available with speaker notes as a PowerPoint presentation.

The Minnesota Digital Library: Expanding Directions (2009)

Presentation at the MnSCU Reference Work Day at Metro State University, St. Paul, 3 April 2009.

Introduction to LibData (2007)

Presentation at MnSCU Libraries Day. Also used in LibData training workshop at the University of Wisconsin--LaCrosse. See also the LibData and Assignment Calculator User Manual, revised 2009.

Wake Up! Before it's too late (2007)

Presentation and "personal witness" for the SCSU Health and Wellness Committee during National Heart Month.

The Minnesota Digital Library: Enhancing Access through Collaboration (2007)

Presented at the MINITEX Enhancing Quality Staff Workshop held in Minneapolis, MN.

The Future of the OPAC (2006)

Presentation with Eric Celeste (University of Minnesota) at the 2006 MnLINK Annual Meeting.

Demographic and Technology Trends Affecting Libraries (2005)

Presented at the Great River Regional Library staff development workshop.

Copyrights and Copywrongs: Digital Media in the Classroom (2005)

Presentation and discussion at the 2005 Minnesota Business Educators annual conference.

The Minnesota Digital Library: Extending Access through Collaboration (2004, 2006)

This was presented at the 2004 MCN Conference held in Minneapolis, MN and again at the 2006 GLBT ALMS Conference held at the University of Minnesota. This is the updated later version.

Building a Foundation: planning and creating a Minnesota digital library (2004)

Joint presentation with John Butler (University of Minnesota) and Jim Dildine (Minnesota Digital Library project) at the 2004 Minnesota Library Association annual meeting in Duluth, MN.

Building the Minnesota Digital Library (2001)

Presentation at the first annual MINERVA (Minnesota Electronic Resources in the Visual Arts) conference, held 4 October 2001 at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Also presented later that academic year at the MnSCU Library Day workshop at Cambridge Community College, Cambridge, MN.

Final Report of the Minnesota Digital Library Conference (2001)

Report from the initial planning conference to develop an online library and archive of texts and images drawn from Minnesota's diverse memory institutions. Conference and initial project planning was funded by an LSTA grant.

Defining a Minnesota Digital Library (2001)

Presentation at the LSTA grant supported Minnesota digital library planning summit, 14-16 August 2001, sponsored by MAGNOLIA. This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the project vision.

Designing and Implementing Instruction on the World Wide Web: A Case Study. (1996)

Co-authored with Jeanne Hites. Presentation at the International Society for Performance and Instruction Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, April 16, 1996.

Walls Dissolve: Transforming Access to Knowledge (1996)

A rather lengthy "scholarly" presentation of the SCSU "vision" for a learning resources facility for the 21st century. While the text embodies the vision developed by faculty and staff in Learning Resources, the work is entirely mine, with whom any fault with its contents must reside.

Reference Services in Minnesota: Alive or Dead. (1995)

Presentation at a MINITEX Reference Conference, November 1995, at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus.

Disaster Preparedness for Libraries (1995)

Workshop co-presented with Mike Kathman (St. John's University) for Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, November 1995.

"Is Traditional Reference Service Obsolete?" (1995)

Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 1995. Co-authored with Robert Hauptman. Lead article in Symposium on Reference Service.

LEO: Literacy Education Online (1995- )

Design and content consultant with Sharon Cogdill (English) and Judy Kilborn (English) for development of LEO, a composition literacy project of the SCSU WritePlace.

Mediation: the Librarian's Role in Information Dissemination. (1992)

Published as both a monograph and Reference Librarian, Vol. 17, No. 37 (1992). Co-edited with Robert Hauptman.

Walls Dissolve: Library Building Program (1990)

Building program for construction of the James W. Miller Learning Resources Center, the main library and technology center for St. Cloud State University. Construction completed August 2000.

"The Dark Ages with Electric Lights" (1990)

An account of a library faculty exchange in the People's Republic of China. College & Research Libraries News, Vol. 51, No. 8 (1990). pp. 707-710.

Addictions

• Reading--mostly contemporary fiction and fiction in translation, but really I'll read almost anything that is well-written.
• Wine in its many varieties, wines of Pacific Northwest, particularly pinot noirs from Oregon and cabernet sauvignons from Washington.
• Jazz, which often goes hand-in-hand with pinot noir and manchego. While travelling in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland I also acquired a taste for Scottish and other Celtic folk music.
• Collecting hand crafted pottery; porcelains by Ivar Mackay and Jan McGregor.
• Travel, almost anywhere, but I enjoy those out of the way remote places removed from technology where I regain a sense of perspective. Recent excursions have included Historic Wales (especially its castles and narrow gauge railways), Historic Scotland (and its castles), Ireland, Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Chile, and the Pacific Northwest. We spent Spring 2001 and Summer 2004 with the St. Cloud State British Studies program at Alnwick Castle, Northumbria (online photo exhibition of student photographs from my Travel Photography class). In 2007 I joined a faculty group to discuss exchange opportunities at the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile.
• Photography (via Flickr), with an old Nikon FM2 single-lense reflex camera and a newer Nikon D50 digital camera.

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Created by Keith Ewing, November 1995
Revised: 26 August 2007
URL: http://myweb.stcloudstate.edu/kewing/index.html