CSU Faculty Library Stars

Long Beach
Tracey Mayfield
Improving library services through the agency of professional involvement

Tracey Mayfield has contributed extensively to library organizations at the national, state, and local levels to promote and enhance library and information services. She has been an active member of the Southern California Instruction Librarians (SCIL), serving on the Steering Committee. Tracey's noteworthy contributions were recognized when she was selected to serve as one of three coordinators for the 2007 LOEX Conference, the preeminent Library Instruction meeting in the United States. The conference was very well attended and received accolades from participants.

Tracey is the president-elect for the California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL), the California chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She has been serving as Vice President of the South since 2006. Her goals for the organization during her tenure as president include establishing a mentoring presence for CARL, coordinating and organizing the infrastructure of the organization, and continuing to update and revitalize the work on the CARL website. Currently, she is helping to organize the 2008 CARL Conference in Irvine, California.

Tiffini Travis
A leader in the national information literacy arena

Tiffini Travis, a member of the library faculty at CSU Long Beach since 1999, has been awarded four Information Competence grants and has been a strong advocate for information literacy efforts at her campus, statewide, and nationwide. One grant she currently directs involves using Calibrated Peer Review in the university's freshman seminar course; the other involves revising the library's Information Literacy Instruction Plan and curriculum mapping of the GE curriculum to identify key courses ideal for integrating information literacy. Both projects utilize iSkills (formerly ICT Literacy assessment) to measure students' cognitive abilities to solve information problems.

Recently, among a highly competitive pool, Tiffini was selected to the Association of College and Research Library's (ACRL) nationally recognized Immersion Faculty whose mission is to prepare librarians to become effective teachers in information literacy programs. As a member of this illustrious group, she conducts weeklong institutes on learning theory, effective pedagogical approaches, and assessment, among other topics. She taught her first Immersion Program at the University of Manitoba in August 2007.

Currently, Tiffini is co-writing a chapter discussing information literacy curricular integration for an upcoming volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Jossey-Bass (2007) and recently she co-edited a book titled Business Plans for E-learning: International Case Studies (Scarecrow Press, forthcoming 2007). Tiffini's varied research interests include social networking, the evolution of instructional technologies, and measuring the library's role in student success.