Liaison Librarian Profile - Christine Bombaro

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Christine Bombaro

Associate Director of Library Collections (2008 - present)
Coordinator of Information Literacy (2003 - 2008)


Education:

Certificate -- Harvard Graduate School of Education -      Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (2009)

Certificate - Association for College & Research Libraries      Information Literacy Immersion, Program Track      (2006)

MLS --   Drexel University (1995)
BA   --   Dickinson College (1993)

Contact:

Email: bombaroc@dickinson.edu
Home page: http://users.dickinson.edu/~bombaroc/

Phone: 717-245-1868
AIM: cbomb22

If I am unavailable, please ask at the circulation desk (717-245-1397) to see if there is another librarian available, or send an email to library@dickinson.edu describing your research need.

Liaison Librarian to:
(click each department name for an online research guide)

Art & Art History
English
Film Studies
History
Medieval & Early Modern Studies
Philosophy

Background and areas of expertise :

I majored in History and earned secondary teaching certification in Pennsylvania. My master's research concerned providing effective library service to patrons whose first language is not English.

I can be of particular help with:

  • Historical research
  • Primary sources - how to find them and how to use them
  • Literary criticism and theory
  • Biographical searches
  • Best teaching and learning practices
  • Building bibliographies and citing properly
  • ...and much more.

Selected Publications:

Osborne, John and Christine Bombaro. "Learning to Read the Signs." The History Teacher. Forthcoming, 2009.

Bombaro, Christine. "The Clicky Things Rocked!" In Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: Strategies to Make Your Students Stand Up and Applaud . Edited by Doug Cook and Ryan Sittler. Forthcoming, 2008.

Bombaro, Christine.  “Using Audience Response  Technology to Teach Academic Integrity:  ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism’ at Dickinson College.” Reference Services Review 35, no. 2 (2007): 296 - 309.

Bombaro, Christine and John C. Stachacz. “Case Study 1:  The Library & the First-Year Experience Over Time at Dickinson College.” The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Edited by Larry Hardesty.  Columbia, SC: National  Resource Center for the First- Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2007.