Jerilyn R. Veldof
email: jveldof@tc.umn.edu
Director of Coordinated Educational Services & Undergraduate Initiatives
243 Walter Library
117 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
phone: 612/624-1529
fax: 612/625-5583

Jerilyn's full curriculum vitae

EDUCATION
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Develop the newly formed department of Coordinated Educational Services.
  • Lead and manage Coordinated Educational Services.
  • Contribute as member to the University Libraries' Academic Programs Directors group.
  • Contribute as member to the University Libraries' Leadership Council.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS
  • User-centered web design/usability
  • Instructional and interface design for web based training 
  • Instructional design for library workshops
  • Building a culture of assessment in libraries
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

Veldof, Jerilyn. 2006. Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide. Chicago: American Library Association..

Veldof, Jerilyn R. 2003. Usability testing. In Developing Web-Based Instruction : Planning, Designing, Managing and Evaluating for Results, edited by Elizabeth A. Dupuis. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers.

Butler, John T., and Jerilyn R. Veldof. 2003. The Information literacy toolkit: Fostering critical research skills in the online learning environment. In Integrating Information Literacy into the College Experience, edited by Julia K. Nims, et al. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press.

Veldof, Jerilyn R., and Karen Beavers. 2001. Going mental: Tackling mental models for the online library tutorial at the University of Minnesota Libraries.Research Strategies 18, no. 1:3-20.

Veldof, Jerilyn R., and Shane A. Nackerud. 2001. Do you have the right stuff? Seven areas of expertise for successful Web site design in libraries.Internet Reference Services Quarterly 6, no. 1:13-38.

Some Recent Presentations and Workshops:

"The User Perspective on Reinvented Reference." Invited presenter for a American Library Association RUSA Preconference in Chicago (June 24, 2005, June 23, 2006).

"Build it Right: User-Centered Design for Library Web Sites." Invited full day workshop leader for the University of Western Washington (April 22, 2005) and New Jersey Library Association (April 24, 2006).

"Pedagogy and the Online Learner." Invited speaker for ALA's Education and Behavioral Sciences Section Program (June 26, 2004).

"Usability: Designing for User Success." Invited presenter for an Association of Research Libraries Webcast delivered to 72 library sites (October 28, 2004).

"Who’s Got The Road Map? Figuring Out The Landscape Of Change," Plenary speaker for WILSWorld 2003 (July 24, 2003).