Professional interests: Web-based services, Web development,
library/computing instruction, virtual reference, wireless services in
libraries, Information/learning commons.
EDUCATION:
BA in Pschology (minor in statistics), Purdue University
1984
Completed two years of graduate work in psychology, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984-1986
MLS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989
Completed 24 credits toward a master's degree in technical writing,
1994-1995,
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio
Graduate coursework in women's studies, systems analysis, graphic
design while at Miami University
WORK EXPERIENCE
Miami University Libraries 1989-1996 (worked as reference
librarian, systems librarian, Assistant to the Dean of Libraries)
North Carolina State University Libraries, 1996-1998 (worked as social
sciences bibliographer)
Lehigh University, 1998 to present (Student and General Services Team
Leader)
PUBLICATIONS:
Kimmel, Stacey, and Heise, Jenne (2003). Editors,
special
issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly on digital reference
services. In Press.
Kimmel, Stacey, and Heise, Jenne (2001). Being There: Online Synchronous
Reference Software. Online, November 25 (6), p. 45-53.
Kimmel, Stacey. Interdisciplinary Education: A Guide to Resources.
The College Board: NY. 1999.
Kimmel, Stacey E. WWW search tools in reference services. (robots,
search engines, metasearch engines, etc.) The Reference Librarian no57 ('97)
p. 5-20
Kimmel, Stacey E.; DiMarco, Scott R. Planning an interview: what do
candidates want?. College & Research Libraries News no4 (Apr. '97) p.
249-50+
Kimmel, Stacey E. Robot-generated databases on the World Wide Web.
Database (Weston, Conn.) v. 19 (Feb./Mar. '96) p. 40-3+
Sessions, Judith A. (Judith Ann), Lee, Hwa-wei, and Kimmel, Stacey
E. OhioLINK: technology and teamwork transforming Ohio libraries. Wilson
Library Bulletin v. 66 (June '92) p. 43-5
Kimmel, Stacey E. Teaching third-year medical students to search MEDLINE.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly v. 8 (Fall '89) p. 69-76
Kimmel, Stacey E. THESIS: Search strategy formulation for online searching
: a study of medical students learning to search.
OTHER
PALA Presentation, May 20, 2003. The Virtual Reference Desk "for the
rest of us," with Jenne Heise, DeSales University.
Louis & Helen Zirkel Library Staff Award, Lehigh University, 1999
SOFTWARE
Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office Suite, UNIX (intermediate user, not
sysadmin).