Nicole Carpenter

Nicole is a Digital Librarian, with moxie, who has acquired specialties in information dissemination and instruction, car dancing, jogging, and appreciating sunsets while residing in Southern California.

Library experience includes collection management, reference services, and instruction at a university campus, and prior work in community colleges and as a solo librarian. She dedicates herself to the improvement and integration of library services in the academic environment.

Nicole has brought her energy to the following experiences:

• web and research curation,
• publisher and vendor relations,
• supervising assistants,
• evaluating library acquisitions,
• and consulting in the non-profit sector

Professional interests include academic settings, emerging technologies, reference services, distance learning, knowledge management, digital/information literacy, social networking, open education resources, work culture, leadership, and instructional design.