Landman Library - Arcadia University

Meet the Faculty Librarians

Adam Balcziunas is the Serials Librarian and the library liaison for Art & Design, Communications, and Theatre Arts. He has a BA in English from Dickinson College and an MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. His background in the arts includes work as an art handler; coursework in drawing, printmaking, and animation; and experience as an intern in the Collection Management Department of the Andy Warhol Museum. He is currently taking master’s courses in Educational Technology at Arcadia.

Jeanne Buckley (MLS. M.S. and Ed.D) has worked in academia for over 30 years (!) as an administrator, faculty member and instructional designer. Her focus is facilitating the teaching and learning process , and her latest research interest revolves around studying digital natives and how they use technologies to interact, learn and explore their environments.

Larissa Gordon graduated from Drexel University with her master’s in Library and Information Science in 2005 and is currently taking courses towards a second master’s degree in Educational Technology. As part of her work with information literacy Larissa has attended two week long Information Literacy Immersion workshops hosted by the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) as well as many other face-to-face and online training sessions devoted to information literacy instruction and assessment.

Karen Kohn graduated from Haverford College with a BA in English and a minor in Russian. After traveling abroad to Russia for a year she completed her master’s degree in Library Science at the University of Illinois. In addition to her reference and library instruction responsibilities Karen is also the Collection Development Manager at the Landman Library.

Michelle Reale holds a master’s degree in English from Arcadia University and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from Clarion University. In addition to her reference and library instruction responsibilities Michelle is also the Manager of Circulation Services at the Landman Library.

Calvin Wang has a BA in Biology from the University of Chicago, a Master of Associated Medical Sciences in biomedical visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a MS in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. In addition to his work as Sciences Librarian, Calvin also helps faculty with instructional technology projects.

About Library Instruction

Only a few students will enter college as capable researchers, and fewer still will be truly adept at the research process. Most students entering college will not be able to effectively use library resources to find information, let alone use the resources specific to their chosen discipline.

Library instruction will help to improve the quality of student research, help students use higher quality resources, and result in students spending less time searching for information and more time analyzing and synthesizing the information they find.

The possibilities for library instruction are nearly endless.

• interactive lab sessions
• customized handouts and resource lists

• online tutorials

Arcadia’s librarians will also work to fit instruction sessions to the academic needs and schedule of an individual class. Instruction can be provided:

• in the classroom
• in a computer lab

• virtually using distance learning technology

The skills that Librarians can teach students are also numerous.

• introduce new students basic research skills
• show upper level students advanced search strategies
• review discipline specific resources and tools
• Effectively evaluate information
• Discuss the importance of scholarly and peer reviewed journals

• Help students learn how to cite information and avoid plagiarism.