Member Spotlight: Alexandra Hauser

Name: Alexandra Hauser

Degree: MLS

Anticipated graduation date: May 2013

I'm originally from southeast Michigan and earned my bachelor's degree in History from Michigan State University in 2010.  I've been trying to gain a variety of experience working libraries so I hold a variety of positions within the IUB Libraries.  I'm a Library Services Team Leader at the Geosciences Library, a Student Supervisor at Media & Reserve Services in the Herman B Wells Library, and I am also an Instruction Assistant within the Teaching & Learning department at the Wells Library.  I'm also currently the Treasurer for the Special Libraries Association Student Group here at Indiana University Bloomington SLIS.

During my time at SLIS I've focused mainly on academic libraries and have only recently discovered special libraries and all that they have to offer. I'm interested in corporate libraries and the idea of really drilling down to focus on a particular market or product and providing research and information to those involved in that field. I am also particularly interested in promoting information literacy, that is providing people with the skills and training to use various information resources confidently to locate accurate, relevant, and quality information and use it effectively.

I have really enjoyed working toward my professional identity here at SLIS. I was able to start achieving this through the publication of two papers "Beyond gatekeepers of knowledge: Scholarly communication practices of academic librarians and archivists at ARL institutions", a product of my Spring 2012 Scholarly Communication class,  was accepted by College and Research Libraries in August 2012 and is awaiting publication.  "Scholarish: Google Scholar and its value for the sciences", written with my Science & Technology information class, was published in the Summer 2012 issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.  Excitingly, we were also asked to write a follow-up blog post based on Scholarish for the London School of Economics' Impact of Social Sciences blog.

I'd love to hold a position where I can continue teaching and promoting information literacy.

You can find me on LinkedIn under Alexandra Hauser or following the link here. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexandra-hauser/2a/490/a91