Whitworth University Faculty


Tami Robinson
Associate Professor/Coordinator, Instructional Services
300 W. Hawthorne Road Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4483	Fax: (509) 777-3221
Office Location: Harriet Cheney Cowles Library 115
E-mail: trobinson@whitworth.edu

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Tami Robinson has been a librarian at Whitworth College since 1999, teaching library and research instruction to many classes in various disciplines and providing individual reference assistance. Before coming to Spokane, she was a librarian at Louisiana State University, Shreveport and the University of California, San Diego. Her subject background is in agriculture, the plant sciences and ecology.

Education:

M.L.S. San Jose State University
M.S. California Polytechnic State University
B.S. University of California, Davis

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty: 1999

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:

Libraries: library and research instruction, reference, career recruitment, cultural diversity in libraries

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:

Publications include: co-author of "Partnering with Faculty through Liaison Activities" in The Christian Librarian (2008); wrote the index to The Librarian's Manual, 2nd ed. (2008, Cedarville, OH: Association of Christian Librarians); numerous articles in ALKI, the Washington Library Assocation journal, since 2001; "Collegiality: An Atmosphere for Expanding Intellectual Stimulation" in The Christian Librarian (2003); "Recruting Latinos to Librarianship: A Continuing Need" in Library Services to Latinos: An Anthology. Wrote the index to the book Take the Train to Town: The History of the Railroads in Bonner County, by Rechnitzer, Paul (Blue Creek Press, 2006). Currently indexing the 20-plus year run of ALKI, the Washington Library Assocation journal.

President of the Fellowship of Christian Library and Information Specialists, 2004-2006; past president of the Fellowship of Christian Library and Information Specialists, 2006-2008.

Presented at the Association of Christian Librarians' annual conference (2008, '07, '04, '03, '02); presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries biennial conference (2003, 1997, '92); received grants from the American Library Association and the Washington Commission for the Humanities for the "New Literary Borders and Boundaries: A Semi-Permeable Layer?" program.