currently serves as Liaison Librarian to the School of Engineering and the other units within the Padnos College of Engineering & Computing at Grand Valley State University, to the Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics departments, and to the Honors College at GVSU. In that position her primary role is to support students in courses in her liaison areas both in and outside of their classrooms. Helping students make connections between information literacy skills and the "life long learning" skills ABET seeks to see in engineering program graduates is an ongoing challenge. Prior to becoming a Liaison Librarian, Debbie served as Systems Librarian at GVSU and at Michigan Technological University for a combined 25 years. She earned her MLIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1983.
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