Ms. Sue Franzen

Associate Dean of Public Services & Organizational Development

Milner Library

Office

Milner Library - MLB Milner Library 311D

Office Phone

(309) 438-3525office
phone

srfranz@ilstu.eduemail

Education
Awards & Honors
Research

MS Library and Information Science

Dominican University

MS Specialization:Teaching of Literature and Composition

Illinois State University

BS English Education with Speech Communication Certification

Illinois State University

Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year

Illinois Library Association

2021

Journal Article

Franzen, S., & Sharkey, J. Impact of Embedded Librarianship on Undergraduate Nursing Students Information Skills. Journal of the Medical Library Association (2021)

Pence, P., Franzen, S., & Kim, M. Flipping to Motivate. Nurse Educator 46.1 (2021): 43-48.

Pence, P., Franzen, S., & Kim, M. Flipping to motivate: Perceptions among undergraduate nursing students.. Nurse Educator 46.1 (2021): 43-48.

Franzen, S., Dick, S., & Sharkey, J. Minding the Gap: Grassroots Efforts to Enhance the Graduate Student Research Experience (2018)

Neubrander, J., Franzen, S., & Mathis, R. INPUT: An academic-practice partnership to an underserved rural community. Wiley (2018): 1-5.

Other

Franzen, S., & Bannon, C. Merging information literacy and evidence-based practice in an undergraduate health sciences curriculum map. Communications in Information Literacy 10.2 (2016): 245-263.

Presentations

"Glad She Was There, Otherwise I Would Have Failed": Student Perceptions of an Embedded Librarian. Illinois Library Association Annual Conference. (2022)

How Do Students Really Feel?: Embedded Librarianship in a Nursing Research Class. 2022 HSLI Annual Conference. Health Science Librarians of Illinois. (2022)

The Heart of a Library: Getting to Know Each Other. Illinois Library Association 2022 Annual Conference: At the Heart of It. Illinois Library Association. (2022)

Shelter in the COVID Storm: Building Relationships through Mentoring. Illinois Library Association 2021 Annual Conference virtual: Breaking Down Barriers, Building Up Communities. Illinois Library Association. (2021)

Practices that Support Faculty Research. Midwest Nursing Research Society Annual Conference. Midwest Nursing Research Society. (2017)

How to Get Embedded: Building Collaboration with Faculty Online and Face-to-Face. Illinois Association for College and Research Libraries Conference. (2016)

Librarians as Faculty Allies: Supplanting the One Shot with Active Learning Library Instruction. Illinois Association for College and Research Libraries Conference. (2014)

Recruiting Public Librarians for the 21st Century: Lessons Learned from IMLS Grantees. Public Library Association Conference. (2006)

Helping Students 'Get It': Service Learning in a Composition Classroom. National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. (2000)