Job Title
Department Head, Education & Research
Office Phone
Contact me about
- Instruction collaborations with library faculty
- Research training
- Research consultations
- Professional literature searching
Education
AHIP
MA/MSLS, The Catholic University of America, 2002
MA, University of Wales Bangor, 1993
Library Committees
Marketing & Communications Committee
Achievements & Awards
Academic Management Institute (2019-2020)
Preceptor, National Library of Medicine Second Year Fellow Program (2019-2020)
Professional Organizations
Medical Library Association (MLA)
Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MCMLA)
Colorado Council of Medical Librarians (CCML)
Liaison Departments
Class I teach
Curriculum-based instruction for the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Medicine
Selected papers, publications, & presentations
- 2021 - Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, “Making Hard Choices a Little Easier: Gathering Actionable Data from the Campus Community to Inform Collections Decisions," (paper session). Online. With Yumin Jiang.
- 2021 - Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, “Diversify Your Health Sciences Course Syllabus: A Pilot Program," (paper session). Online. With Samantha Wilairat, Elizabeth Svoboda, and Christi Piper.
- 2020 - Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, “Implementing a requirement for all library staff to complete professional development related to diversity and inclusion.” (paper session) Online. With Melissa DeSantis and Lisa Traditi.
- 2019 - Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, “Restructuring a Literature Search Service: Preliminary Data and Feedback.” Omaha, Nebraska.
- 2019 - Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, “Using Statistics to Tell Your Story.” Omaha, Nebraska. With Christi Piper.
- 2019 - Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, “Restructuring a Literature Search Service: Preliminary Data and Feedback,” (poster session) Chicago. With Lilian Hoffecker.
- 2019 - Colorado Library Consortium Spring Workshop, “Stakeholders, Statistics, and Stories, Oh My: Turning Tick Marks into Triumphs.” Grand Junction, Colorado. With Christi Piper.
- 2019 - Colorado Library Consortium Spring Workshop, “Library 101: Creating Resuable and Embeddable Content.” Grand Junction, Colorado.
- 2018 - Harnke, B., DeSanto, K., McHale, N., McGaughy, L., Hoffecker, L. “Developing a Database for a Literature Search Service at an Academic Health Sciences Library.” Doody's Review Service. 2018 December; Available online: http://www.doody.com/dej/PublicFeaturedArticle.asp?SiteContentID=293&SID={28CE2430-D9FF-409B-85AD-5A82B8FD263F}.