By: Sandra  Confer

Sabbatical leaves for the following University Libraries faculty have been approved:

Paige Andrew — (7/1/18 – 12/31/18) To explore and apply current standards and professional practices of cataloging to create instructional materials for advanced level cataloging of digital cartographic resources.

Joe Fennewald — (1/1/19 – 6/30/19) To report on research on students who use the Knowledge Commons resources and services and explore how the library can better prepare its student employees with meaningful work experience that would appeal to future employers.

Dolores Fidishun — (2/1/18 – 7/31/18) To study the informational needs of female truckers.

Kevin Harwell — 8/1/18 – 1/13/19)  To analyze corporate social responsibility initiatives in the areas of environmental sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and outreach to communities by select Fortune 1000 companies for the years 2017-2017.

John Shank — 1/1/19 – 6/30/19) To investigate the use of open educational resources (OER) to determine best practices in academic libraries.