Breivik, Patricia Senn

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BREIVIK, Patricia Senn

BREIVIK, Patricia Senn. American, b. 1939. Genres: Librarianship, Education. Career: Fund raiser for church-related activities, NYC, 1962-67; school librarian, NYC, 1969-70; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, humanities reference librarian, 1970; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, lecturer, 1971-72, assistant professor and assistant dean of Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1972-76; Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL, dean of library services and associate professor, 1976-79; University of Colorado at Denver, director of Auraria Library and professor, 1979-90, special assistant to the president, 1984-90; Towson State University, Towson, MD, associate vice-president for information resources, 1990-95; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, dean of university libraries, 1995-. Publications: Open Admissions and the Academic Library, 1977; Planning the Library Instruction Program, 1982; (with E.G. Gee) Information Literacy: Revolution in the Library, 1989; (with J.A. Senn) Information Literacy: Educating Children for the Twenty-First Century, 1994, 2nd ed., 1998; Student Learning in the Information Age, 1997. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with E.B. Gibson) Funding Alternatives for Libraries, 1979; Managing Programs for Learning outside the Classroom, 1986; (with R. Wedgeworth) Libraries and the Search for Academic Excellence, 1988. Contributor to library journals. Address: University Libraries, Wayne State University, 5155 Anthony Wayne Dr., Detroit, MI 48202, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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