Susanne Markgren

Systems / Electronic Resources Librarian

Tel: (914) 251-6415
Fax: (914) 251-6437
Email: susanne.markgren@purchase.edu

Education

• Masters of Library and Information Science. 1999. The University of Texas at Austin
• Bachelor of Arts, History and English. 1993. The University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

Positions

2007 - Present: Adjunct Faculty, Manhattanville College
2005 – Present: Systems / Electronic Resources Librarian, Purchase College, SUNY.
2006 – Present: Reviewer for Library Journal.
2003 – Present: Co-columnist for Career Q&A with the Library Career People.
2002 – Present: Reviewer for CHOICE.
2000 – 2005: Information Systems and Technology Librarian & Reference Coordinator, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
1997 – 2000: Reference & Instruction Librarian. The General Libraries. The University of Texas at Austin.

Publications

"Reaching Out to Gen Y: Adapting Roles and Policies to Meet the Information Needs of the Next Generation." Our New Public, A Changing Clientele: Bewildering Issues or New Challenges for Managing Libraries?. Ed. James R. Kennedy, Lisa Vardaman, Gerard B. McCabe. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

"The Five-Year Itch: Are Libraries Losing Their Most Valuable Resources?" Library Administration & Management 1 Apr. 2007: 70-76.

“How do I get there from here? Changing jobs, changing roles, changing institutions.” College & Research Libraries News, 65 (4), 2004. 653-656.

“"Lifelong Learning in Librarianship: Classes and Beyond.” Info Career Trends Newsletter, May 2004.

“Asked and Answered - Online: How Two Medical Libraries are Using OCLC’s QuestionPoint to Answer Reference Questions.” Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 23(1), 2004. 13-28.

Posters and Presentations

Alumni Speaker Series. School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. January 23, 2006.

Changing roles and redefining goals: the five-year itch. Poster presented at the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries Fall Conference at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, October 2005.

Changing roles and redefining goals: the five-year itch. Poster presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries 12^th National Conference in Minneapolis, MN, in April 2005.

Migrating instruction to the virtual classroom: creating a web-based course to teach and assess PubMed searching skills. Poster presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries 12^th National Conference in Minneapolis, MN, in April 2005.

Asked and answered - online: how two medical libraries are using OCLC’s QuestionPoint to answer reference questions. Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, in May 2003.

Library informatics and research assessment: results of an online survey. Technology exhibit and presentation given at the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., in November 2001.

How computer literate are first-year medical students? Results of an online assessment. Poster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL, in May 2001.

Professional Associations

• Association of College and Research Libraries / Greater New York Chapter. Member of Executive Board
• American Library Association
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• Westchester Academic Library Directors' Organization (WALDO)
• METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council)
• Purchase College:
  Strategic Planning Committee, 2005 to present