Kendra Van Cleave

EDUCATION

M.A. History, January 2001
Simmons College, Boston
Thesis: "'Clothed and in Her Right Mind': Fashion and Consumer Culture at Smith College, 1920-29"

M.S. Library & Information Science, May 2000
Simmons College, Boston

B.A. History (Women's Studies minor), May 1996
Mills College, Oakland, Calif.
Semester abroad at the University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K., Jan. - May 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

J. Paul Leonard Library, San Francisco State University. June 2003 - present. Senior Assistant Librarian.

Doheny Memorial Library, Information Services Division, University of Southern California. Aug. 2001 - May 2003. Research Services Librarian.

Information Services Division, University of Southern California. Aug. 2001 - May 2003. Subject Instruction Coordinator.

Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Library, University of Southern California. June 2000 - July 2001. Reference/Instruction Librarian.

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Oct. 1999 - May 2000. Reference Assistant.

Archives & Special Collections, Snell Library, Northeastern University. May 1999 - April 2000. Archival Assistant.

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Jan. - APril 1999. Archival Intern.

History Department, Simmons College. Feb. - May 1999. Teaching/Research Assistant.

American Textile History Museum. Sept. 1998 - Jan. 1999. Archival Intern.

PRIMARY LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT

CURRENT ASSIGNMENT

Program Coordinator Assignment(s)(coordinate library programs and services)

• Library Education Co-Coordinator: Lead planning, training, and project development and oversight for library education/information competence program, including Library Education Committee (Fall 2006 - present). Co-led projects including:
• New faculty orientation workshops on faculty and student research skills (Summer 2008)
• Planning for instructional services during library building construction (Summer 2008)
• Creation of short how-to videos ("screencasts") supporting research assistance (Summer 2008)
• Definition of core competencies and outcomes for information competence program (Summer 2008)
• Library faculty instruction training (Spring 2008)
• Welcome Days (campus wide new student/parent orientation) library program: design and implementation of workshops and student orientation activity (Fall 2007)
• Library Education Current Practices Survey: assessment of library education program based on survey of teaching librarians (Fall 2006 - Spring 2007)
• Revision of OASIS online information competence tutorial (Spring 2007 - present)
• Observe and evaluate librarian instructors for retention, tenure, and promotions purposes (Fall 2007 - present)
• Revision of faculty/student course-integrated instruction evaluation forms (Fall 2006)
• Co-Chair, Library Education Committee (Fall 2006 - present)

Subject Liaison Assignment(s)(serve as a central information conduit between the library and the academic department)

• Course-integrated instruction(the teaching of research skills ("information competence"), usually by guest lecturing in one or more sessions of a course; sometimes includes collaborating with course instructors on assignments)
  • Design and teach group library education/information competence instruction to courses in the History (Summer 2003 - present) and Apparel, Design & Merchandising programs (Fall 2005 - present), as well as others as needed
• Research assistance(the provision of individualized general and subject-specialized research consultation, both on demand and by appointment)
  • Provide general research assistance as well as subject-specialized research consultation in history (Summer 2003 - present) and apparel, design & merchandising (Fall 2005 - present)
• Research support materials:
• Research guides(published on the library website, combine bibliographies/directories of research sources with research advice)
  • Created and maintain research guides for history (Summer 2003 - present):
    • History: Secondary Sources
    • History: Primary Sources
  • Created and maintain research guides for fashion & costume (Summer 2008 - present):
    • Fashion & Costume
• How-to research videos ("screencasts"):
  • Finding Articles: Improving Your Searches
  • Finding Books: Basic Searching
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
  • Film & Television Literature Index
• Orientation:
  • "Library Research in the Age of Google": co-designed and co-taught orientation workshop (Fall 2007)
  • "Passport to the J. Paul Leonard Library": participated in leading student orientation activity (Fall 2007)
• Special projects :
• "Integrating Information Competence into the First-Year Experience Program at San Francisco State University" (grant project): developed information competence tutorials and related assignments and assessment rubrics, integrated into selected First Year Experience courses in fulfillment of the Basic Information Competence Requirement (Fall 2006 - Spring 2008)
  • Project website

Collection Access and Management(the systematic selection and removal of books, journals, online databases, and other information resources for the library's collections)

• Selection & Collection Review:
  • Develop and maintain the library's print and electronic collections in the field of history
    • Special projects:
      • Coordinated the bound journals review for the history collection, ensuring that journals used for the curriculum remained available in the library during building construction (2005)
      • Coordinated the serials review & cancellation project for the history collection, a comprehensive review of the library's journal and standing book order subscriptions (2004)

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS

Program Coordinator Assignment(s):

• Reference Coordinator: Led planning, training, and project development and oversight for in-person, telephone, and electronic reference services (2004-2006). Led projects including:
• Virtual reference (online live chat research assistance service) - led project planning and development (2006)
• Email reference: served as primary reference librarian for library email reference service (2004-2006)

Library Instruction/Research Assistance :

• Member, Library Education Committee (2003-2006):
• Information Communication & Technology beta test (national test of student information and technology competence) -- worked on promotion and implementation of test (2005)

Special Projects:

• Coordinated planning and administration of Information, Research & Instructional Services Division meetings (2004-2007)
• Library website redesign - worked with a team to create new organizational structure and design, and to revise content (2005-2006)
• Guest lecturer, Apparel, Design & Merchandising 362, Fall 2005 (Course instructor: Paul Gallo)
  • Lecture topic: the fashion designs of Madeleine Vionnet (active 1912-1939)

PREVIOUS LIBRARY ASSIGNMENTS

Research Services Librarian
Doheny Memorial Library, Information Services Division

University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Aug. 2001 - May 2003

• Coordinated Research Services department library education/information competence program by leading planning, training, and development for instructional services
• Designed and taught group library education/information competence instruction for the History, Gender Studies, and Writing programs, and other programs as needed
• Provided humanities & social sciences research assistance and consultation in U.S. history, Canadian history, and gender studies; participated in pilot project to deliver electronic reference services
• Developed the library's print and electronic collections in U.S. history, Canadian history, and gender studies
• Served as library liaison to the History and Gender Studies departments
• Special projects:
• Created and implemented a faculty open house program (2002)
• Managed the library's central reference collection on an interim basis (Spring - Summer 2002)

Subject Instruction Coordinator
Information Services Division

University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Aug. 2001 - May 2003

• Led planning, training, and development for subject-specialized library education/information competence services throughout the USC Information Services Division library system (17 libraries)
• Created a campus-wide infrastructure for subject-specialized library education/information competence programs

Reference/Instruction Librarian
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library

University of Southern California, Los Angeles
June 2000 - July 2001

• Provided research assistance and consultation in various subject disciplines
• Designed and taught group library education/information competence instruction for the Writing program, and others as needed
• Developed the library's print collections in history and gender studies
• Participated in training and supervision of student reference assistants
• Developed and maintained the library website

Reference Assistant (part-time)
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Oct. 1999 - May 2000

• Provided research assistance in U.S. women's history, women's studies, and culinary history

Archival Assistant (part-time)
Archives & Special Collections, Snell Library

Northeastern University, Boston
May 1999 - April 2000

• Appraised, arranged, described, and applied preservation techniques to portions of archival collections, including the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts records, the Elma Lewis papers, La Alianza Hispana records, and the National Center for Afro-American Artists records

Archival Intern (part-time)
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Jan. - April 1999

• Appraised, arranged, described, and applied preservation techniques to the papers of Ruth Thompson Peirce (2.5 linear ft.), a Women's Army Corps flight dispatcher

Teaching/Research Assistant (part-time)
Department of History

Simmons College, Boston
Feb. - May 1999

• Provided individual research and writing assistance to undergraduate history students
• Transcribed a nineteenth-century diary for future publication

Archival Intern (part-time)
American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass.

Sept. 1998 - Jan. 1999

• Appraised, arranged, described, and applied preservation techniques to the records of the Russell Manufacturing Co. (6 linear ft.), a Connecticut cotton mill operating from 1833-1976

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT & GROWTH

PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, CREATIVE WORK, ETC.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

"Fashioning the College Woman:  Dress, Gender, and Sexuality at Smith College, 1920-29." Journal of American Culture 32 (March 2009): 4-15. (Journal of American Culture is a refereed journal published by the American Culture Association, which focuses on studies of American literature, history, and the arts, especially those addressing broad and substantive cultural issues. Annual circulation: 1300)

"The Self-Study as an Information Literacy Program Assessment Tool." College & Undergraduate Libraries 15:4 (Dec. 2008): 414-31. (College & Undergraduate Libraries is a refereed journal published by Haworth Information Press, which deals with all aspects of practice for the four-year college library, as well as undergraduate libraries housed in larger university settings. Annual circulation: 246)

"'A Style All Her Own':  Fashion, Clothing Practices, and Female Community at Smith College, 1920-29."  Dress (2005):  56-65. (Dress is a refereed journal published by the Costume Society of America, focusing on all areas of the study of dress, with scholarly emphasis on history and preservation. Annual circulation: 1800)

Chapters in Edited Books

"Collaboration." In Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program. S. Curzon and L. Lampert (Eds.). Neal-Schuman, 2007. (Neal-Schuman publishes books focused on research skills and the use of the Internet in classroom teaching. The book is aimed at librarians and educators working on library/information competence instruction program planning; the "Collaboration" chapter examines collaboration between librarians, teaching faculty, and other campus constituencies. Owned by 227 libraries according to the WorldCat database)

"Locating and Evaluating Historical Primary Source Materials on the Web." In Information Literacy Course Handbook for Distance and In-Class Learners . K. Manuel (Ed.). Pittsburgh: Library Instruction Publications, 2006, 163-65 plus CD-ROM. (Library/information competence instruction textbook for distance learners. Owned by 73 libraries according to the WorldCat database)

Encyclopedia Articles

"Fashion (WWI)," and "Fashion (WWII)."  In The Home Front Encyclopedia:  United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II.  James Ciment (Ed.).  Santa Barbara, Calif.:  ABC-CLIO, 2006. (ABC-CLIO is an educational publisher focusing on history and the social sciences. The encyclopedia examines the transformation of American, Canadian, and British societies during the two world wars. 3 volumes. Owned by 259 libraries according to the WorldCat database)

"Moral and Dress Reform Movement," and "Women's Social Movements: 1800-1869." In The Encyclopedia of American Social Movements. Immanuel Ness (Ed.). Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe (2004), 261-67, 268-71. (ME Sharpe publishes reference books, textbooks, general interest books, and journals. The encyclopedia examines every significant social movement in the United States. 4 volumes. Owned by 1004 libraries according to the WorldCat database)

Unpublished, Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations

"Promoting Lifelong Learning within the Constraints of the One-Shot: The Social Sciences Perspective." LOEX-of-the-West annual conference, 2006. Co-presenter with Athena Nazario (San Francisco State University). (LOEX-of-the-West is one of only two regular U.S. conferences focusing on library/information competence instruction. The audience is comprised of librarians and other educators from colleges and universities throughout the United States. This proposal was ranked #3 out of 118 total proposals in peer review)

"All Information on a Need-to-Know Basis: Teaching Today's Undergraduates." California Academic & Research Libraries biannual conference, 2006. Co-presenter with Athena Nazario (San Francisco State University). (California Academic & Research Libraries is the only statewide academic library conference in California. The audience is comprised of librarians and other educators from colleges and universities throughout the West Coast)

"'A Style All Her Own':  Fashion and Gender at Smith College, 1920-29."  Western Association of Women Historians annual conference, 2004.  Organized panel:  "Fashioning Gender, Gendering Fashion." (Western Association of Women Historians is the largest regional women's historical association in the United States. Their annual conference draws women historians and those working on women's history topics)

"Spotlight on Graduate Students:  Are They Different?  Designing Information Literacy Sessions and Programs."  Workshop on Instruction in Library Use annual conference, 2004.  Co-presenter with Gina M. Castro (San Francisco State University) and Sarah McDaniel (UC Berkeley). (Workshop on Instruction in Library Use is the only regular Canadian conference focusing on library/information competence instruction. The audience is comprised of librarians and other educators from colleges and universities throughout Canada and the United States)

"Victims of Our Own Success." Southern California Instruction Librarians' open house, 2002.  Co-presenter with Sarah McDaniel (University of Southern California). (The Southern California Instruction Librarians, an interest group of California Academic & Research Libraries, provides continuing education for librarians working in library/information competence instruction. Their annual "open house" is a Southern California regional conference)

Unpublished, Peer-Reviewed Conference Poster Presentations

"Introducing Principles of Service Learning Into Information Literacy Instruction." Poster session. American Library Association annual meeting, 2003.  Co-presenter with Robert Labaree (University of Southern California). (The American Library Association is the largest, most comprehensive professional organization for librarians in the United States. Their annual conference draws librarians and educators from all sectors, including academic, school, public, and special [corporate and private] libraries)

Book Reviews

"CoPA Vintage Patterns: An Archive of Everyday Wear, v.1 1944-1956, v.2 1868-1956" (CD-ROM), Choice Magazine Sept. 2005. (Choice Magazine, which publishes about 7,000 reviews of scholarly works annually, is one of the primary collection development resources used by academic librarians)

"Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion," ed. Valerie Steele, Choice Magazine May 2005.

Cornell University. "Textiles & Apparel: Cornell Costume Collection," <http://www.human.cornell.edu/units/txa/cu_costume.cfm>, Choice Magazine Sept. 2004.

Cunningham, Patricia A. "Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920: Politics, Health, and Art,"Choice Magazine Dec. 2003.

"Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States," ed. Judith A. Baer, Choice Magazine Dec. 2002.

"For Appearance' Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming," ed. Victoria Sherrow, Choice Magazine Nov. 2001.

Websites

Demode (historical costume research, resources, and reconstructions)

Fashionable History (directory of scholarly resources on the history of fashion)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Research on Turkish influence on French and English fashions in the late 18th century.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

“Integrating Information Competence into the First-Year Experience Program at San Francisco State University,” Information Literacy Initiative Grant, California State University, 2006. (Supported the creation of modular information competence tutorials and resources that are being integrated into First-Year Experience course content, as well as the creation of customizable activities, assignments, and assessment rubrics)

Travel to Collections Grant, Smith College Archives & Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, 2004.

SERVICE TO CAMPUS & COMMUNITY

CAMPUS AND CSU

SFSU Library Committees & Assignments

• Member, Library Faculty Affairs Committee, 2004 – 2007
  • Led revision of Library retention, tenure, and promotions policy (2006)

SFSU University Committees & Assignments

• Member, Committee on Written English Proficiency, 2006 - present
• Member at Large, Academic Senate, 2004 – 2007
• Member, Academic Policies Committee, 2005 – 2007
• Member, Student Affairs Committee, Dec. 2004 – 2005

University of Southern California Library Committees & Assignments:

• Member, Library Faculty Standing Search Committee, 2001 – 2003
• Member, Humanities Reading Room Committee, 2001 – 2002
• Member, Instruction Task Force, 2001
• Reference librarian, Collaborative Digital Reference Service, Library of Congress, 2000 – 2001

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Participation in Professional Organizations

American Library Association(the largest, most comprehensive professional organization for librarians in the United States)

• Panel moderator, "Primary Sources in the Electronic Age: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Historical Research." American Library Association annual conference, 2005. (The American Library Association annual conference draws librarians and educators from all sectors, including academic, school, public, and special (corporate and private) libraries.)
• Member, Instruction & Research Services Committee, History Section, Reference & User Services Association, 2002 – 2005. (The Instruction & Research Services Committee of the History Section examines history-specific library/information competence instruction, web resources for history instruction, liaison and outreach with history students and faculty, and development of history collections)
  • Worked with committee to write "Using Primary Sources on the Web" guide to locating and evaluating online primary source material.

Association of College & Research Libraries(the largest, most comprehensive professional organization for academic librarians in the United States)

• Chair, 2004 – 2005; Member, 2003 – 2004; Intern, 2002 – 2003, Awards Committee, Instruction Section. (The Awards Committee recognizes outstanding scholarship, instructional programming, and leadership among librarians and educators working in library/information competence instruction)
• Member, Advisory Committee, 2004 - 2005. (The Advisory COmmittee advises the Instruction Section leadership)

SERVICE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS

Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (a non-profit organization whose mission is to encourage and facilitate the study, appreciation, and creation of costuming as an art form. Membership is c. 250)

• Board of Directors
• Newsletter editor, 2007 - 2009
• President, 2004 – 2007
• Secretary, 2003 – 2004
• Invited presentations:
• "Women's Hairstyles & Makeup of the 18th Century," 2009.
• "Indiennes, Chintz, Toiles: 18th Century Printed Cotton Fabrics and Beyond," 2008.
• "Overview of Women's Costume in the 1830s - From Ridiculous to Romantic," 2008.
• "Basic Bodice Draping for the Victorian Era," 2007.
• ""The Icing on the Cake:  Women’s Hairstyles, 1870-1889," 2007.
• "Overview of 18th Century Fashions," 2006.
• "18th Century Bodice Draping," 2006.
• "Bustle Gowns: Overview and Draping," 2005.

Costumers Guild West (a non-profit organization that promotes the educational, cultural, literary, artistic, and theatrical advancement of costume design and construction)

• Invited presentations:
• "Turkish Influence on 18th Century Fashion and the Zone Bodice," 2009.
• "Draping the 18th Century Robe à la Française," 2009.
• "1770s Big Hair: How to Style a Wig into a Pouf," 2009.
• "Indiennes, Chintz, Toiles: 18th Century Printed Cotton Fabrics and Beyond," 2008.
• "Women's Hairstyles & Makeup of the 18th Century," 2008.
• "Overview of Women's Fashion in Late 16th Century Venice," 2008.
• "Overview of Women's Fashions, 1750-1790," 2007.
• "Overview of Women's Costume in the 1830s -- from the Romantic to the Ridiculous," 2006.
• "Overview of Women's Fashions, 1750-1790," 2006.
• "Overview of Women's Fashions in Late 16th Century Venice," 2006.
• "The Icing on the Cake:  Women’s Hairstyles, 1870-1889," 2004.
• "Basic Bodice Draping for the Victorian Era," 2004.
• "Overview of Women's Costume in the 1830s - From Ridiculous to Romantic," 2004.

CONTINUOUS STUDY

Membership in Professional Associations

American Culture Association

American Library Association

• History Section

Association of College & Research Libraries

• Instruction Section
• Women's Studies Section

Costume Society (United Kingdom)

Costume Society of America

Western Association of Women Historians

This page last updated March 20, 2009.