Directory of Librarians and Archivists

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Phone: (414) 288-5996
Office: Raynor 262

Mailing Address:
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Marquette University
P. O. Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI  53201-3141

Education: M.L.S. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
B.A. (Scandinavian Studies) Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

Rank: Associate Librarian

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and support for both e-learning initiatives and library services
• Design and develop library-related digital learning objects and web-based guides
• Collaborate with faculty in the integration of library-related instructional tools and learning objects into the curriculum and the university's course management system
• Serrve as the liaison to the College of Professional Studies

Professional memberships: American Library Association; Association of College and Research Libraries; Library Administration and Management Association; Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians

Professional Service: Member, Information Literacy Best Practices Committee, ACRL; Member, Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation Section's Committee on Using Measurement Data for Library Planning, Assessment & Communication, LAMA.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Cardwell, Catherine, Katherine Furlong, and Julie O’Keeffe. “My Librarian: Personalized Research Clinics and the Academic Library.” Research Strategies 18.2 (2002): 97-111.
• O’Keeffe, Julie. “Small College Library Directors: Getting in the Door and Surviving on the Job.” College & Research Libraries 59.2 (1998): 140-153.
• Chappell, Virginia, Julie O’Keeffe, and Randy Hensley. “Finding Reliable Sources: An Instructional Strategy that Closes the Gap between the Reference Desk and the Classroom.” Assembly on Computers in English Journal 1.3 (1998): 8-26.
• O’Keeffe, Julie. “One Step at a Time: A Framework for Introducing Business Students to Sources of Company and Industry Data,” Research Strategies 16.1 (1998): 71-77.
• “Will It Make My Teeth Whiter? Selling the Library Without Selling Out,” Panel Moderator, with Mary Evangeliste, Pat Berge, and Erla Heynes, ACRL Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 2007.

National Presentations:

• "Expectation Management: Breaking Ground for a New E-Learning Librarian Position,” with Ed Sanchez, LOEX Conference, Oak Brook, Illinois, May 3, 2008.
• “Will It Make My Teeth Whiter? Selling the Library Without Selling Out,” Panel Moderator, with Mary Evangeliste, Pat Berge, and Erla Heynes, ACRL Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 2007.
• “From ‘My Library’ to ‘My Librarian’: a Reinvestigation of Personalized Research Clinics,” ACRL Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 16, 2001.
• "Closing the Gap between the Reference Desk and the Classroom," with Virginia Chappell, Director of First Year English at Marquette University, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 1999.
• “Small College Library Directors: Getting in the Door and Surviving on the Job,” ACRL Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, April 12, 1997.

University service (selected): University Faculty Council 2007-Present; University Assessment Committee, 2000-2008; University Academic Senate 2006-07; Library Instruction Committee, 1997-2003 (chair); Library Staff Development Advisory Committee 1997-1999; Librarians Assembly (chair); Manresa First-Year Reading Faculty Discussion Leader for several years.