Trudi Jacobson, Coordinator of User Education Programs, University at Albany:
Wonder Woman and Information Literacy--Not!

Trudi E. Jacobson has been the Coordinator of User Education Programs at the University at Albany since 1990. Previously she was the Reference Services Coordinator at Siena College, Loudonville, NY. She has written numerous articles about user education which have appeared not only in library journals, but also in journals in the field of education. Some of these journals include: College & Research Libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Reference Librarian, Research Strategies, Education, College Teaching, and The Teaching Professor. She is the co-editor of Teaching the New Library to Today's Users (Neal-Schuman, 2000) and editor of Critical Thinking and the Web: Teaching Users to Evaluate Internet Resources (Library Instruction Publications, 2000).

She was a member of the Research Strategies Editorial Board from 1994-1997, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of Urban Academic Librarian. She is active in the Association of College and Research Libraries' Instruction Section, and has been chair of a number of committees, as well as Secretary of the section from 1993-1994. Since 1995, she has taught the User Education graduate course at the School of Information Science and Policy at the University at Albany. This spring she also co-taught an undergraduate course, Introduction to Information Science. In 1998, she received the School of Information Science and Policy Distinguished Alumni Award from the State University of New York at Albany's Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. She frequently gives presentations and workshops on topics relating to user education.