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Ms. Sue Franzen

Associate Dean of Public Services & Organizational Development
Milner Library
Office
MLB Milner Library 311d
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Research Interests & Areas

Embedded Librarianship
Mentorship
Student Success

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

Book, Chapter

Yon, A., Allbaugh, G., & Franzen, S. Strengthening Person-Centered Management through Mentorship: Building Library Community. Dani Brecher Cook, Maoria J. Kirker, and Diann Smothers (EDs), Person-Centered Management in Academic Libraries. American Library Association (2024): 63-73.
Jallas, M., Fary, C., Fitzsimmons, R., Franzen, S., Thayer-Styes, C., & French, S. Uncharted waters: Mapping a vision for student success. M. Rood, O. Patterson (EDs), Student Success Librarianship: Critical Perspectives on an Emerging Profession. ACRL Press

Journal Article



Yon, A., Allbaugh, G., & Franzen, S. Thinking Outside the Dyad: Incorporating Cohort-Based Experiences into Mentorship. Library Leadership & Management 37.2 (2023): 24.
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.

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

Creating Cards and Carving Pumpkins: How Fun Activities at Work Build Morale, Create Community, and Spark Creativity. Illinois Library Association 2024 Annual Conference: Libraries are Lit: Sparking Innovation and Imagination. Illinois Library Association. (2024)
Social Teambuilding in an Academic Library: Inspiring a Balance between Work and Play. Academic Library Association of Ohio 2023 Annual Conference: Finding Balance - Hybrid Spaces, New Opportunities and Transformed Missions. Academic Library Association of Ohio. (2023)
"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)
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)