Diane Harvey is the Head of Library Instruction & Outreach at the Perkins Library, Duke University. She came to Duke in January 2009 from the University of Maryland, where she was most recently the Undergraduate Studies Librarian. Diane has worked in a variety of library settings, including academic (Rutgers and Johns Hopkins) and special (The Newseum, Fannie Mae, and Middlesex County NJ Planning Board), as well as at the Association of Research Libraries.Diane is also the subject librarian for global health, working with students, faculty and staff at the Duke Global Health Institute. For information about her work with DGHI, see this article.
Education:
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University (American Studies)
M.L.S., Rutgers University (Library Services)
M.A., Johns Hopkins University (Liberal Arts/History of Ideas)
Professional Interests:
Library instruction pedagogy
Student learning outcomes assessment
Recent Presentations:
Assessing for Improvement: learning outcomes assessment for library instruction
(Duke Libraries brown bag, November 2009)
Know Thy User: the Duke Libraries User Studies Initiative (LAUNC-CH Conference, March 2010)
Assessing for Improvement (NCLA BIG workshop, May 2010)
