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Curriculum Vitae

City: San Diego, CA

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Administration & Management
• Distance Education in LIS
• Information Needs / Behaviors of the Public
• International Librarianship
• LIS Faculty / Students
• LIS as a Profession
• Strategic Planning & Marketing

Research Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Information Literacy and Instruction

Dr. Connie Costantino

Lecturer

Connie Costantino received her Ed.D. in Educational Administration at Alliant International University (2003). She focused her dissertation on information literacy and broadened the awareness and usage of these skills amongst undergraduate students and educators. Her M.L.S. from the SUNY at Buffalo resulted in a School Library Media Specialist degree.

Prior to joining the faculty at SJSU in 2004, Dr. Costantino spent over 30 years as a school, public, and academic librarian. She served as an academic library director from 1993 to 2003 and consulted for libraries in Mexico City and Nairobi, Kenya. She enjoys mentoring students by discussing how to transfer skills within various types of informaton organizations. She also likes to discuss career options based on students' strengths and interests.

Dr. Costantino teaches Information Organizations and Management, Instructional Strategies for Information Professionals, and International and Comparative Librarianship at SLIS. She also serves on the faculty at a community college library where she has taught an online course entitled Information for Lifelong Learning. Dr. Costantino's philosophy is: Teaching and learning go together, so the deeper we dig for research and collaborate, the more we can learn and benefit from each other and others!

Welcome video:  Captioned Video | Uncaptioned Video

Courses Taught

• > [204] Information Organizations & Management
• > [250] Design & Implementation of Instructional Strategies for Information
• > [281] Seminar in Contemporary Issues [International & Comparative Librarianship]

Education

• Ed.D. (Educational Administration) Alliant International University (2003)
• M.L.S. (School Library Media Specialist) State University of New York at Buffalo (1972)
• B.S. (Elementary Education) State University of New York at Buffalo (1971)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, CA (2006-)
• Lecturer (part-time), School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, CA (2004-2006)
• Lecturer, Library (part-time), Palomar College, CA (2004-)
• Library Director, Alliant International University, CA (1993-2003)
• Branch Librarian, County of San Diego Libraries, CA (1991-1993)
• Children's Librarian, Carlsbad City Library, CA (1991)
• Campus Library Manager, National University, CA (1988-1990)
• High School Librarian, Carlsbad, CA (1986-1987)
• Junior High School Librarian, Hamburg, NY (1972-1986)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

• Costantino, C. (Chapter forthcoming). Staffing. In J. Fritts (Ed.), Mistakes in library management: Grievious errors and how to avoid them. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
• Costantino, C. E. (2003). Stakeholders' perceptions of the importance of information literacy competencies within undergraduate education (Doctoral dissertation, Alliant International University, 2003). Dissertation Abstracts, 64(4), 1164.

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