Barbara Quarton

Coordinator, Reference

John M. Pfau Library
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino CA 92407-2318

Office: (909) 537-7553 (includes voice-mail)
Fax: (909) 537-7079
bquarton@csusb.edu

OFFICE HOURS: By appointment

Room PL-125

Library Responsibilities

Main Job Responsibility

Public Services librarian: reference and instruction
Coordinator of reference
Coordinator of instruction
Liaison to the Psychology Department
Collection development for the reference collection

Other Responsibilities

Recruit, hire, and oversee the activities of adjunct librarians
Recruit, train, and supervise library interns
Recruit, hire, train, and supervise reference student assistant

Task Forces

Secretary/chair elect, Librarians' Council 2009-1010
Library Evaluator, 2009-2010
Library Elections Officer, 2009-2010 Member, Librarians' Council 2008-
Member, Coordinators' Council 2007-
Member, Library Information Technology Council (LITC) 2007-
Member, Collection Development Council (CDC), 2007-
Member, Space Planning Advisory Council 2007-08
Chair, Space Planning Advisory Council 2008-
Chair, Workload Distribution Task Force 2007
Member, Library Governance Task Force 2007
Library Evaluator 2008-09 Member, Travel Committee 2007-09
Member, Professional Awards Committee 2006-09
Member, Library Web Committee 2005-08
Member, Search Committee, Dean of the Library 2006-07
Library Elections Officer 2005-08

Liaison to: Psychology Department

Education

MLIS, San Jose State University
B.A. English, University of San Diego

Campus and Other Responsibilities

Campus Committees

Scholarship Committee 2008-10
Faculty Professional Development Coordinating Committee 2007-09
Institutional Review Board 2006-08
Faculty Senate 2005-07
Honors Committee 2004-06
International Students Advisory Committee 2005-07

Presentations and Publications

Organized and moderated the California Library Association workshop, "Academic Libraries Responding to Tough Times." April, 2009.
Christmas Stories Rediscovered: Short Stories from the Century Magazine, 1891-1905. Wildside Press ISBN-10: 1434477568, 2008

California Library Association Conference. "Information Literacy: Teaching & Learning Strategies Faculty Love." November, 2008.

Organized and moderated the California Library Association workshop, "A Librarian in Second Life." June, 2007

Research skills and the new undergraduate. Journal of Instructional Psychology v. 30 no. 2 (June 2003) p. 120-125.

California Library Association Conference. "Loving What You Do Enough to Pass it On." November, 2003.

Five steps to an effective internship program. College & Research Libraries News v. 63 no. 2 (February 2002) p. 109-11.

Leadership

President, CLA Academic Section 2008-09
Member, CLA Finance Committee 2008-09
Chair, CARL Conference Publicity and Publications Committee 2008
Vice-president, CLA Academic Section 2007-08
Member, CLA Governance Task Force 2007-08
Member, CLA Long-Range Planning Committee 2006-07
Chair, CLA Annual Conference Committee 2005

Awards & Honors

Librarian of the Year, 2008-2009