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Fall 2002
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Instruction
Coordinator Change
Beginning with the Fall semester of 2002, the Pollak Library has a new Instruction Coordinator. Dr. Susan Tschabrun assumes the position from Suellen Cox, who has been appointed to head the Library’s Instruction and Information Services Unit. Dr. Tschabrun served as Vice-Coordinator of the Pollak Library’s Instruction Program for 2001-2002, and previously served as Instruction Coordinator at Cal State University, San Bernardino. While at San Bernardino, Dr. Tschabrun was chosen as the CSUSB Outstanding Librarian of the Year,
1998/99 and received a CSU Information Competence Work Group Award for her Information Competence for History Majors multimedia project. Dr. Tschabrun earned an MLS degree at UCLA (1993) and was awarded a PhD in Comparative World History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1986). In addition, she holds an MA in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980) and a BA in History from SUNY Stonybrook (1975).
Suellen Cox, who has served as the Library’s Instruction Coordinator for the past six years, led the program through a period of tremendous growth. She contributed to the design and successful installation of the library’s electronic classrooms, ably served as the library’s liaison to discipline faculty requesting library instruction sessions, designed and implemented assessments of instruction sessions, and with colleagues, instituted a series of electronic workshops for faculty, staff and students.
Ms. Cox was an early proponent of the use of the Web in instruction, and encouraged her colleagues to create instructional materials on the Web. She created library Web guides for Anthropology, Art, Child & Adolescent Studies, Human Services, Linguistics, and Philosophy. Ms. Cox has personally taught nearly thirty library instruction sessions per semester and has been an extremely popular instructor with both faculty and students. In addition, she served for four years as coordinator of the library team for Fullerton First Year and taught the Fullerton First Year Seminar course for six semesters. In Spring 2002, Ms. Cox received a CSUF Teacher/Scholar Award for exceptional achievement in teaching.
Ms. Cox has been a leader in Information Literacy within the Library, on campus, and in the CSU. Last year, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) selected Cal State Fullerton as a “Best Practices” library for Information Literacy. As a result of this recognition, Ms. Cox participated in an ACRL invitational conference with CSUF colleagues
Dr. Pat Szeszulski and Ms. Elizabeth Housewright in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2002. Her Web page on Information Literacy is located at
http://www.library.fullerton.edu/information_comp/.
As Library Instruction Coordinator, Ms. Cox demonstrated creativity and a passion to empower student learning. We are all grateful for her efforts and wish her continued success in her new position.
Carol
Bednar
Chair, Pollak Library, Department of Technical Services |
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