Heidig, Lance J.
Associate Librarian ILance has worked as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Cornell since 1984. His work there has concentrated on the integration of traditional and digital library services, with a focus on web-based instruction and information literacy.
Lance also coordinates the Library's support of the New Student Reading Project and the Book Collection Contest. He teaches research classes and workshops and selects resources for Uris Library.
research
research and scholarship focus
- Library 2.0: Interactive/multimedia instruction
- Research in support of Cornell's New Student Reading Project
- Cornell University history
- Cornell University Library history
- Samuel Clemens - Mark Twain research for a Spring 2010 exhibition in the Library's Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
research areas
- library science | research subject area
affiliations
librarian in
- Research & Learning Services | library department
teaching
recent courses taught
service
library liaison to
- New Student Reading Project | Academic Initiative
background
educational background
Columbia University. School of Library Service. New York, NY.
M.S. in Library Service, June 1984.
University of Vermont. Burlington, VT.
Graduate work in English Literature, 1980-1982.
Middlebury College. Bread Loaf School of English at Lincoln College. Oxford, England.
Graduate work in English Literature, Summer 1981.
Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR.
B.A. in English Literature, June 1978.
featured in
- Library starts undergrad information project to get students beyond Google | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
"Teaching Digital Literacy Digitally: A Collaborative Approach." Jami Carlacio and Lance Heidig. Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission International Conference . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. April 24-26, 2009 http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Carlacio.pdf
Angela K. Horne, Steven M. Adams, Michael Cook, Lance Heidig, and Christian Miller. "Do the Outcomes Justify the Buzz?: An Assessment of LibGuides at Cornell University and Princeton University." in Pushing the Edge: Explore, Extend, Engage: Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference of the Association of Research Libraries, March 12-15, 2009, Seattle, WA. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009.
- ACRL Conference Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/smadams/do-the-outcomes-justify-the-buzz-an-assessment-of-libguides-at-cornell-university-and-princeton-university
Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Ida T. Martinez, Lance J. Heidig, “Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers.” D-Lib Magazine, June 2003, Volume 9 Number 6. http://purl.pt/302/1/dlib/june03/kenney/06kenney.html
- Reprinted as "Apples and Oranges" in The Whole Digital Library Handbook. Edited by Diana Kresh for the Council on Library and Information Resources. Chicago: American Library Association, 2007. http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2244
"Explaining the Information Universe in 50 Minutes or Less: Using the World Wide Web for Library Instruction." North American Web '98 Conference, Fredricton, NB, October 1998. http://www.unb.ca/naweb/98/proceedings/heidig/
talks and presentations
"Mark Twain's Cornell: Recalling Samuel Clemens's Ithaca Friends." The Sixth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies: The Worlds of Mark Twain. Elmira College. August 6-8, 2009. http://www.slideshare.net/ljh5/mark-twain-cornell
"Teaching Digital Literacy Digitally: A Collaborative Approach." Jami Carlacio and Lance Heidig. Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission International Conference . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. April 24-26, 2009
"Becoming Ambient: Finding Reference Services and Me (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Library 2.0." Reference Renaissance Conference, Denver, CO, August 2008. http://guides.library.cornell.edu/refren