Sherri L. Barnes
UCSB
Libraries
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Voice (805) 893-8022
Fax (805) 893-4676
Email barnes@library.ucsb.edu
Reference, collection development, bibliographic instruction, and book indexing in American, ethnic, and gender studies across the humanities and social sciences.
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA
Librarian for Women's Studies, Writing Studies, and U.S. History (8/99 -
present); Humanities Collection Coordinator (7/01 - present)
Co-coordinates and oversees all aspects of humanities collection management and development, with emphasis in goals, planning and outreach. Works with other collection coordinators to evaluate the budget, collection needs, training needs, and purchase proposals. Selects and maintains print and non-print resources in women's studies; writing studies; and U.S. history, including the development and management of approval plan profiles, and collection development policies. Participates in cooperative systemwide collection development. Handles vendor relations. Faculty liaison for assigned subject areas. Participates in the Area, Ethnic and Gender Studies Collection Group. Coordinates instruction activities between the Writing Program and library, supervising the scheduling of one-shot instruction sessions, preparing instruction materials, teaching, and providing consultation to teaching assistants, instructors, and students. From the social sciences and humanities reference desk, assists students and faculty with their research needs. Participates in email and live chat reference. Produces print and online research guides. Conducts one-on-one research consultations, and course integrated one-shot library research sessions for first year to doctoral level students. Credit bearing courses taught: Interdisciplinary 1: Introduction to Library Research, and Interdisciplinary 100WS: Library Research for Women’s, Feminist and Gender Studies
Institute for Shipboard Education, Semester at Sea Study Abroad Program
Assistant Librarian (01/31/07 - 05/14/07)
Provide reference, circulation and instruction services for the shipboard community of 800 students, faculty and staff, while sailing around the world over 100 days. Supervise work-study students, weed collection, make gift decisions and acquisition recommendations. Semester at Sea trip leader for Boipeba Island, Brazil; Nargercoil, India; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – coordinated three day trips, supervising students, and working with local trip leader to maintain itinerary and provide an enriching travel and educational experience for students.
Long Island
University (LIU), Brooklyn, NY
Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor (9/95 - 6/99)
Provides individual and group instruction in using the library's print and electronic resources. Bibliographic instruction coordinator. Produces and coordinates the production of pathfinders and bibliographies. Faculty liaison and selector for education, speech, American history, American studies, women's studies, African American studies, and media arts. Orientation Seminar (1 credit freshman requirement) instructor.
Brooklyn Public Library
(BPL), Brooklyn, NY
Librarian (2/94 - 6/95); Assistant Branch Librarian (6/95 - 8/95)
Second in-charge of branch. Supervised and trained Librarians. Reference, using print and electronic resources. Collection maintenance, including, selection, evaluation and weeding of materials. Planned and conducted class visits and programming activities. Arranged and selected materials for exhibit.
Library
University
Professional
Sojourner Librarian: A ASemester at Sea. California Academic and Research Libraries, Irvine, California, April 5, 2008.
Doing Information Literacy Differently: The View from Interdsiciplinary Studies. Panelist. ACRL Women Studies Section Program, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 26, 2006.
Collection Development: The Manual Revisited. Collection Development Librarians of Academic Libraries Discussion Group. American Library Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, Saturday June 26, 2004.
Buried Treasures: Using Government Information for Historical Research. Applying CARL Preconference, Applying Government Information to Social Science Research. Sponsored by GIPIG South. Hilton Long Beach, October 6, 2000.
Best Practices in Instruction: Effective Internal Training. UC Best Practices in Instruction & Reference for Digital Resources. LAX Hilton, June 23, 2000.
Presenting Librarians to the Faculty Review Committee. Workshop organizer and facilitator. Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, November 17, 1997.
Discover and Learn: Library Database Searching Classes. Poster Presentation. Faculty Showcase: Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, October 8, 1997.
Resources and Materials Development Workshop. Moderator. Queer Pedagogy: A Colloquium on Sexuality and Curriculum Transformation. The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, March 8, 1997.
Library Services and Resources: Questions and Answers. Faculty Development Workshop on Information Literacy and Curriculum-Integrated Research Assignments. Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, January 26, 1996.
Communication Competencies of Librarians in the 21st Century. Panelist. California State Library Association Conference, Oakland, CA, November 11-16, 1993.
Barnes, Sherri L. Review of Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Claudia A. Mitchell, and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh. Feminist Collections29.2 (2008): in press.
Barnes, Sherri L. Review of Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol. Feminist Collections 16, no. 4 (Summer 2006): 16
"Are Abortion Politics Relevant to Women of Color?". Feminist Collections 27, no 1 (Fall 2005): 1-5.
"Feminism". In Sage Encyclopedia of African American Society, ed. Gerald D. Jaynes. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005, 320-324.
Forte, E., Chiu, C, Barnes, S., DeDecker, S., Colmenar, G, Pickett, C., Lewis, S, Johns, C. "Developing a Training Program for Collection Managers." Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services. 26, no. 3 (2002): 299-306.
Barnes, Sherri L. Black American Feminism: A Multidisciplinary Bibliography. http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/blackfeminism/, October 2002. Updated Quarterly.
Barnes, Sherri. "African American/ Black/Womanist Feminism on the Web". Feminist Collections 23, no.1 (Fall 2001): 28-31.
Barnes, Sherri. "Feminist Movements in the United States". ACRL, Women's Studies Section Women's Studies: Core Books, 2000 - 2006. Updated Annually.
Library Journal Reviews (in reverse chronological order)
Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings, 1619 to the Present, by Nell Irvin Painter. 1 October 2005, 94.
I'm Just a DJ...But it Makes Sense to Me, by Tom Joyner, with Mary
Flowers Boyce. 1 August 2005, 97.
Freedom is not Enough: Black voters, Black Candidates, and American Presidential Politics, by Ronald W. Walters. 16 November 2005, 97-98.
Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics, by Norman
Kelley. July 2004, 208.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, by Cornel
West. 1 September 2004, 129.
In the Shadow of Selma: The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights in the
Rural South, by Cynthia Griggs Fleming. 15 May 2004, 98.
Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by
Nikhil Pal Singh. 1 June 2004, 153.
Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South, by Jonathan D.
Martin. 15 April, 2004.
Finding Grace, by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. 1 March 2004, 88.
Stories of Freedom in New York, by Shane White. January 2003, 134.
The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life, by
Manning Marable. December 2002, 185.
The Huey P. Newton Reader, edited by David Hillard and Donald Weise.
July 2002, 98.
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family, by Carole Merritt. 15 June 2002, 75-76.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, by Robin D.G. Kelley. 15
May 2002, 109.
The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom,
by DeEtta Demaratus. 15 April 2002, 104.
The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader, edited by William Jelani Cobb. 15
March 2002, 95-96.
The African American Studies Reader, by Nathaniel Norment Jr.
December 2001, 142.
Frantz Fanon: A Biography, by David Macey. 1 June 2001, 174.
In Praise of Black Women, Ancient African Queens. Vol 1, by Simone
Schwartz-Bart. 15 April 2001, 115.
W.E.B. DuBois: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Gerald Horne and Mary
Young. 1 April 2001, 93.
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker, by A'leila
Bundles. 15 February 2001, 176.
Freedom's Daughter: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement From
1830-1970. by Lynne Olson. 1 January 2001, 132.
Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem,100
Years, 100 Voices, by Julian Bond and Sandra K. Wilson. 15 November 2000,
81.
W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Eqauality and the American Century1919-1963,
by David Levering Lewis. 15 September 2000, 88.
The Magnificent Activist, by Howard N. Meyer. August 2000,126.
The Black Feminist Reader, by Joy James. July 2000, 122.
A Black Patriot and a White Priest: Andre Cailloux and Claude PaschalMaistre
in Civil War New Orleans. 1 June 2000, 154.
Home and Exile, by Chinua Achebe. 15 April 2000, 87.
Masks: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination, by Adam Lively. 1 February
2000, 102.
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks, by Randall Robinson.
January 2000, 136.
From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution,
by Mary Louise Clifford. December 1999,157.
The Cornel West Reader, by Cornel West. 15 November, 1999, 85.
Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, edited by Philip S.
Foner,abridged and Adapted by Yuval Taylor. 15 October 1999, 82.
Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics, by Joy James.
1 September, 1999, 216.
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class,
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy. August 1999, 124.
Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race,by
Eugene Robinson. July 1999,106.
Race Men: The W.E.B. Dubois Lectures, by Hazel Carby. 1 September 1998,
204.
American Library Association,
1992 - present
Association of College and Research
Libraries, 1995 - present
Librarians' Association of the University
of California, 1999 - present
California Academic and Research Libraries,
2000 - present
American Society of Indexers,
2006 - present