research overview
- Professor Gerke's research focuses on how users of libraries and their spaces interact. She also is interested in the effects and landscape of mentoring in libraries for both early career and mid-career librarians.
- Contact Info
Gerke, Jennie
Positions
- Associate Professor, University Libraries
- Associate Dean, University Libraries
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- library mentoring, library spaces, library users
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
- Not just for the new librarians: mentoring and professional planning at mid-career 2022
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Inorganic is Still Good for You: Building a Structured Group Mentoring Program for Librarians.
19-38.
2017
- Environment and Energy. 277-292. 2011
- A New Route to an Old Resource: Facilitating Access to Library Research Guides for the Self-Serve Generation. 129-152. 2010
- From Useless to Useful: Providing Access to Library Research and Subject Guides 2010
- Government Information in the 21st Century: A New Model for Academic Depository Outreach 2009
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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Where Does the Money Go? Creating Transparency in Libraries Operational Budgeting.
Library Leadership and Management.
2021
- Getting into the Club: Existence and Availability of Mentoring for Tenured Librarians in Academic Libraries. College and Research Libraries. 676-700. 2020
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Evaluating reference data accuracy: a mixed methods study.
Reference Services Review: reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age.
298-312.
2013
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The Physical and the Virtual: The Relationship between Library as Place and Electronic Collections.
College and Research Libraries.
20-31.
2010
- Web-Based Information and Prospective Students with Disabilities: A Study of Liberal Arts Colleges. Educause Quarterly. 51-59. 2004
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Where Does the Money Go? Creating Transparency in Libraries Operational Budgeting.
Library Leadership and Management.
2021
Background
education and training
- M.L.S., Indiana University at South Bend 2003
- M.A., Washington University 1999
- B.A., Hollins College 1998