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Linda Crook

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User Name: Linda Crook

Linda Crook's Groups

ALA Groups

Committee

Division

LLAMA (Library Leadership & Management Association)

RoundTable

NMRT (New Members Round Table)

Section

LLAMA LOMS (Library Organization and Management Section)

Archived

2010 ALA Annual Conference [Event]

ALA Groups that I follow

RoundTable

LearnRT (Learning Round Table)

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Interests

Administration and Management
Career Advice
Emerging Technologies
Integrated Library Systems (ILS)
Leadership
Networking
New ALA Members
Professional Development
Reference Services
Research and Statistics

Type of Libraries

Bio

Bio

Linda Crook is a faculty librarian at Washington State University, where she is Reference Team Leader and librarian for the sciences and health sciences. She lives in beautiful Pullman, Washington, which is in the non-Seattle part of the state.

Linda's interests include virtual reference services, next-generation library catalogs, and library leadership. She is the 2011/2012 President of the American Library Association New Members Round Table and co-edited Mid-Career Library and Information Professionals: A Leadership Primer, published in 2011. Linda holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Health Sciences Librarianship from the University of Pittsburgh.

Linda has been working in libraries since 1991 and as a librarian since 2000, including experience in special, public, and academic libraries. She has four dogs, four cats, and a great husband.

Publications

Publications

Crook, Linda. “WorldCat Local and the Clinician: Is Discovery Improved?” Endnotes: The Journal of the New Members Round Table, v.2 no.1 (November 2011)
http://www.ala.org/nmrt/files/oversightgroups/comm/schres/endnotesvol2no...

Crook, Linda and Beth Blakesley. “A Conversation about Leadership,” Library Leadership & Management, v. 25 no 4 (2011)
http://journals.tdl.org/llm/article/view/5947/5573

Crook, Linda. “President’s Column,” NMRT Footnotes, v.41 no.1 (November 2011)
http://www.ala.org/nmrt/news/footnotes/november2011/president’s-column/

Crook, Linda. “Round Table Coordinating Assembly Discusses its Future,” ALA Membership Blog, (25 June 2011)
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/ala-members-blog/round-table-coordi...

Crook, Linda, and Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen. Mid-career library and information professionals: a leadership primer, Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2010

Crook, Linda. “ALA Annual 2009: 3M/NMRT Professional Development Grant Report,” NMRT Footnotes, v.39 no.1 (August 2009)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/news/footnotes/august_2009/Confere...

Calzonetti, Jo Ann and Linda Crook. “The 2007 STS Continuing Education Survey: Continuing Education Needs of Science/Technology Librarians,” Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no.57 (Spring 2009)
http://www.istl.org/09-spring/sts.html

Crook Shippert, Linda. “Thinking About Technology and Change, or, “What Do You Mean It’s Already [two point] Over?” PNLA Quarterly: The Official Publication of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, v.73 no.2 (Winter 2009), p.4, 26.
http://www.pnla.org/quarterly/Winter2009/PNLA_Winter09.pdf

Shippert, Linda. “Saying ‘yes’ to your Career,” in Byke and Lowe-Wincentsen, A Leadership Primer for New Librarians, Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2009

Shippert, Linda. “Sagan, Carl (1934-1996),” The Encyclopedia of Time. Sage, 2009. p.1123-1124

Shippert, Linda. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Librarianship: My Experience in ALA’s Emerging Leaders Program,” NMRT Footnotes, v.38 no.1 (August 2008)
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/news/footnotes/august2008/emerging...

Shippert, Linda, reviewer. “Scholarly Societies Project.” Reference Reviews. 21(4), 2007

Shippert, Linda, reviewer. “Aquaculture Network Information Center (AquaNIC).”
Reference Reviews. 21(2), 2007

Shippert, Linda. “Naming That Bear: a Public Relations Campaign and the Influence of Social Networking,” ACRL Washington Newsletter, no. 60 (Spring 2007)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/acrl-wa/News/spring07/namethebear.html

Shippert, Linda. “First time attendee conference report,” ACRL Washington Newsletter, no. 59 (Fall 2006)
http://www.lib.washington.edu/acrl-wa/News/fall2006/menucha.html