Gustavus Adolphus College

Professor
Library

B.A. in Russian Literature, University of Kentucy; MLIS, University of Texas; MA in English Literature, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Barbara Fister has been a librarian at Gustavus since 1987. She coordinates the library instruction program, provides reference services, builds the collection in several areas and participates with other members of the library staff in a unique collaborative management model. She teaches Information Fluency (spring) and has taught and a First Term Seminar (fall). She has published widely on information literacy, the future of publishing, and popular literacy She blogs for the Association of College and Research Libraries and has been quoted in Library Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times. In her spare time she maintains her own blog and writes crime fiction. Her next mystery, In the Wind will be published in April, 2008.

Areas of Expertise

• information literacy
• publishing
• crime fiction
• internet communication
• popular literacy

Interests

• libraries
• books
• creative writing

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