E-mail

City: San Leandro, CA
Telephone:
  1-510-410-1959

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Collections Development
• Reading and Literacy
• Storytelling
• Young Adult Services

Research Interests

• Collections Development
• Information Literacy and Instruction
• Public Libraries
• Storytelling
• Young Adult Services

Elizabeth S. Wrenn-Estes

Lecturer

Beth Wrenn-Estes has been a school and a public librarian. She also was the Manager of Technical Services, Collection Development and Acquisitions for a major school district in Denver, Colorado. Before Wrenn-Estes started teaching for SJSU as her only occupation she was at Lone Tree Library in Douglas County, CO. Beth was a youth services librarian and was responsible for both children and young adult programs and services. She is passionate about libraries and especially serving youth.

Wrenn-Estes has research interests in information seeking behaviors of youth and serving disconnected youth in public and school populations.

Wrenn-Estes is a member of ALA, ALISE, YALSA, NCTE, CLA and Freedom to Read Foundation. She has served as President of the Colorado Association of Libraries and served on that association's conference committee, publications committee, and foundation committee. She currently serves as a director at large on the California Library Association board and is the current chair of the ByLaws Committee.

Wrenn-Estes' husband Mark is a law-librarian and is the Director of the Alameda County Law Library. She has one daughter, Whitney, and two grandchildren (Lorelei and Tabitha).

Courses Taught

• > [260A] Programming and Services for Children
• > [265] Materials for Young Adults
• > [267] Seminar in Services to Children and Young Adults [Intellectual Freedom - YA]
• > [280] History of Books and Libraries
• > [281] Seminar in Contemporary Issues [Storytelling]

Education

• PhD Candidate SJSU-QUT Partnership (in progress)
• MLS (Library Science) University of Denver (2000)
• BA (English Literature & Secondary Education) University of Colorado (1974)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Lecturer, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University (2006-)
• Lecturer, School of Education, Library and Information Science, University of Denver (2007-)
• Lecturer, University of Colorado at Denver, Information Storage and Utilization (Summer 2006, Winter 2007)
• Lecturer - School of Education - School Media, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (2005-)
• Various Workshops on Reader' Advisory for Children and YA, (2005-2006)
• Training Specialist for Educational Resource Services, Denver Public Schools, (2000-2004) [Taught Collection Development, Collection Mapping, Electronic Database Use.]
• Manager of Collection Development, Acquisitions, Technical Services, Denver Public Schools (2000-2004)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

• Several articles in local library journal for Colorado - Colorado Libraries (2000, 2004, 2005)
• Research Assistant to Dr. Joni Richards Bodart on Radical Reads

Disclaimer

[Top of Page]