Biography
Meredith K. Saba is Head of the Access, Research, and Instructional Services Department
at the Hunter Library. She manages all the personnel, functions, and services within
these public service areas for 甜瓜视频app's students, faculty, and
staff to access and utilize for their teaching and research. Prior to this, Saba spent
4.5 years working overseas at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) as an instruction/reference
librarian and department coordinator, where she managed several large-scale projects
for the library and university, and was the library's liaison to the School of Sciences
and Engineering. Before moving to Egypt, Meredith was a STEM librarian at the University
of California, Davis for many years, teaching students and faculty how to conduct
library research, write, and manage their citations in the life and physical sciences.
She also previously worked in the libraries at Indiana University, Bloomington and
at Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Additionally, she has experience
working in the International Office at the University of California, San Francisco
as a program coordinator for international student and scholar services. Saba has
an English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching certificate from a language institute
in Oxford, UK and spent a year teaching Academic English to college students in China
before pursuing her second Master's degree in International Education and then her
PhD in Information Studies. She has traveled to over 80 countries worldwide and has
lived and worked abroad in 5 countries outside the US, including an overseas stint
at the United Nations Library in Vienna, Austria. Her doctoral research focuses on
the globalization of higher education, strategic planning at US universities related
to internationalization and online education, and what university libraries are doing
to support these initiatives in the global, digital, and informational age.
Teaching Interests
Information Literacy (IL) is the ability to successfully search, find, and easily
access all different types of information worldwide (i.e. data, statistics, reports,
papers, reviews, etc. on any topic), then evaluate that information for quality and
trustworthiness by testing its accuracy, reliability, and authenticity, and then taking
that information and applying it to your discipline to make important decisions for
you or others, and/or to solve problems. These are lifelong skills that can be taught
and applied to any academic course of study (major), career, or in one's personal
life. IL skills are interdisciplinary and they are an integral part of creating competent,
well-rounded civic and globally-minded college graduates in the 21st century; students
who will learn how to navigate the complex digital world of online information, and
who can be trained to tackle various issues within their disciplines based on the
information they find, research, synthesize, and utilize. While every student should
have exposure to IL concepts within their undergraduate and graduate curriculum and
classes, I am particularly interested in how these skills are taught to First-Year,
Graduate, STEM, ESL, and First Generation College Students.
Research Interests
Internationalization and Globalization Trends in Higher Education<br><br>Library Strategic
Planning and Roles in International Initiatives<br><br>Online Teaching and Learning
in the Digital Age<br><br>Global Curriculum Development in Higher Education<br><br>Academic
Success/Retention Strategies for International, ESL, and STEM students
