Virginia Tucker teaches part-time for SLIS and is a public law librarian. Her career in information services began as head librarian at the Stanford University Physics Library. She was recruited by Dialog to their sci-tech client services and training group and eventually was promoted to manage client training programs worldwide. After many years working directly with professional searchers, Virginia moved behind the scenes as an interface architect for web-based search engines. She began work in legal information services and law libraries five years ago.

Proposal Title: Learning While Searching: Experiences of Novice and Expert Searchers

San José Supervisor: Dr. Judith Weedman

Education:

PhD Student, Information Technology, Queensland University-SJSU Gateway PhD program (in progress)
Paralegal Certificate, Whatcom Community College (2005)
MLIS, University of California at Berkeley (1978)
BA, Music, minor concentration in Physics, Stanford University (1976)

Current or Most Recent Position:

Lecturer, School of Library & Information Science, San José State University
Law Librarian, Whatcom County Law Library, Bellingham, WA

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