University of Minnesota. (B.A., cum laude); University of California, Berkeley (M.L.S); University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana (Certificate of Advanced Study in Library Science).

Library instruction and information literacy; children's literature.

AFFILIATIONS: American Library Association- Association of College and Research Libraries division, secretary of Education and Behavioral Sciences section, Library Instruction Roundtable, Instruction section.** Association of Library Services for Children, International Association for School Librarianship, Alabama Library Association** Education honor society: Delta Kappa Gamma, Librarianship honor society: Beta Phi Mu.

POSTER SESSIONS: "UA High School Digital Resources Web Page" at Alabama Library Association, April 21, 2004, Montgomery, Alabama.** "Outreach to Undergraduates in Education" at Alabama Library Association, April 22, 2004, Montgomery, Alabama. PRESENTATIONS: "Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning" at 2004 Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Convention, July 29, 2004, Minneapolis, Minnesota. PUBLICATIONS: Contributor: "The Greenwood Dictionary of Education." Edited by John W. Collins III and Nancy Patricia O'Brien. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Office: 23 McLure Education Library. Address: Helga Visscher, Box 870266, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487- 0266. Phone: 205-348-1507. Fax: 205-348-6602. E-mail:hvissche@bama.ua.edu.