1. Amanda L. Folk
October 20, 2011

2. • Focus on undergraduate education
• FTE = 1,760 (1,693 full-time students, 168 part-time
students)
• Mixture of…
• Full-time, tenure-track faculty
• Full-time, non-tenure-track faculty
• Part-time adjunct faculty
• No formal academic departments
• Humanities Division
• Behavioral Sciences Division
• Natural Sciences Division

3. • Includes majors, minors, and courses that are offered for
the purpose of general education
• Majors include…
• Communication, English Literature, English Writing,
Interdisciplinary Arts, Spanish
• Minors include…
• History of Art & Architecture, Music, Philosophy, Theater

4. • PROACTIVE first, reactive second
• Email to each of the Divisions
• “The Library is now offering an “Embedded Librarian” service to
all faculty, and I am the liaison to the Humanities
faculty. Embedded librarians can serve in a variety of
capacities – embedded within an academic department or
concentration in order to work closely with faculty regarding
library resources and information literacy, or embedded into a
particular course to work closely with the students as they go
through the research process. They focus on the user, with the
intent of bringing the librarian to users wherever they are.”
• Reactive during the semester based on Reference Desk
transactions and discussions with faculty

5. • One-on-one consultations regarding faculty research and
publishing
• Lillian Beeson, Communication
• Instruction session
• Composition 2 class
• Instruction session + LibGuide
• Steven Schrum, Theatre
• LibGuide (no instruction session)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar, English Literature
• Steady stream of student referrals for basic and in-depth
assistance
• Nancy Estrada & Alicia Covarrubias, Spanish

6. • Composition 2 Research Award
• Intended to recognize excellent research skills in undergraduate students
• Emailed VPAA and a number of faculty in the Humanities Division to
determine if there was interest
• VPAA suggested Composition 2 in order to reinforce curricular standards
• Collaborated with Martha Koehler and Kelli Maloy
• Allowed me to gain valuable insight into the requirements and expectations of
the Composition students and faculty
• A Team initiative
• Implemented to encourage one-on-one, consultation service
• Intended for students, but the faculty have latched on to this brand
• Pitt-Greensburg Faculty Senate
• Budget and Planning committee
• Current secretary and member of the Senate Council

7. • Book display
• Worked with Steve Schrum, Theatre, and Meghan Edge, Theatre
Capstone student, to create a book display promoting the fall
performance of Hippolytus
• Campus engagement
• English Literature Capstone presentations
• Faculty/Staff vs. Students basketball game
• 5K run/walk for PGAA and Sigma Tau Delta

8. • More instruction in the Humanities
• Determine why professors who are library promoters don’t request
instruction sessions
• Work closely with the Humanities Division Chair
• More collaboration with faculty and student research
• Sayre Greenfield, English Literature and his former Green Scholar,
Deidre Stuffer
• New ways to promote all services, including embedded
librarian service
• Testimonials?
• Statistics?