Megan Brooks

Key Responsibilities

• Direct the research services team of research and instruction librarians;
• Serve as the research and instruction librarian for Economics, Religion, and East Asian Language and Cultures;
• Coordinate Wellesley's participation in the Federal Depository Library Program;
• Serve as a member of the Drupal support team, working closely with academic department on their web sites and with faculty on their faculty profiles;
• Serve as the LTS service coordinator for departments in Pendelton East.

Library and Technology Trends of Interest

• altmetrics (measuring the impact of scholarship in many forms using non-traditional methods)
• the blurring of lines between librarians and instructional technologists
• MOOCs

Personal

I live in Natick with my spouse Amy and our dogs. Outside of work, I play ice hockey and train at Crossfit New England. I tweet a lot (sometimes about libraries and technology, but mostly about the Boston Bruins, craft beer, and life outside work) and post photos on Instagram and Flickr.

Publications

Wolfson, A., Brooks, M., Kumbier, A., and Lenares, D. (2013.) "Monitoring and Promoting the Impact of Pedagogically-Related Scholarship."  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. In press. Authors' version.

Beile P.M. and Adams M.M. (2000.) "Other Duties as Assigned: Emerging Trends in the Academic Library Job Market." College & Research Libraries 61 (4), 336-347. PDF.

Adams, M. (1996.) "Evaluation of Cabinet-Level World Wide Web Homepages." Government Information Quarterly 13 (3), 329-335.