Karen Michaelsen @ Seattle Central Community College Library

"What we have to teach students are skills and ways of approaching problems - how to recognize the kinds of materials that are needed to work on different categories of problems and how to go about finding materials when they are needed." Margaret Mead from Personal Views (1979)

I am a faculty librarian at Seattle Central Community College. In addition to teaching and providing reference service, I also represent the Wood Construction and Business, Information Technologies & Creative Arts Divisions for collection development and information literacy consulting.

Fall 2007 and winter 2008 I am on special assignment as the Chair of the Instructional Assessment Taskforce. I will be working with the Instructional Assessment Planning Group to develop leadership for college-wide instructional assessment.