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As the librarian for the Brian Lamb School of Communication, I consult, collaborate, and communicate with students and faculty affiliated with the School. I teach classes and workshops on accessing and using information sources, and I provide one-on-one consultations in person and via email. I also purchase new books, journals, multimedia, and other online research sources related to studies in communication.

Each tab on this site includes resources geared towards different research areas in the School: Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, etc. The Publishing & Research Tools tab provides information about organizing, citing, and determining impact of research. The Course Pages tab includes pages tailored for specific Communication courses. Please contact me, via contact information on the right, about research and isntructional support, accessing or purchasing resources, or suggestions for this website.

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Featured New Books

Evil Media

Call Number: HM851 F855 2012 (HSSE Library, 2nd floor)

"Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems, algorithms and data structures, twenty-first century self-improvement manuals, and pharmaceutical techniques. Evil Media invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details."

The Power of Writing in Organizations : From Letters to Online Interactions

Call Number: eBook

"This book demonstrates the power of writing in informal and formal organizations in the past and the present. It shows how writing, despite long lasting criticisms that can be traced back to Plato, and in spite of its frequent definition as a mere recording medium is in fact a creative mode of communication that supports the expression of emotions, the developing knowledge, and the building of strong communities among faraway individuals."

The Podium, the Pulpit, and the Republicans: How Presidential Candidates Use Religious Language in American Political Debate

Call Number: JA85.2 U6 S74 2011 (HSSE Library, 2nd floor)

"Over the past 40 years, Frederick Stecker charges, the Republican Party has created fear for political expediency. Stecker's book traces the development of the Republican rhetoric of polarization and applies the linguistics-based "nation-as-a-family" political typology of George Lakoff to an analysis of the presidential debates of 2000, 2004, and 2008."