Karen S. Balcom, Ph.D.

Web Pages and Instructional Materials:

• Astronomy
• Chemistry
• Genealogy & Family History
• Internet
• News, Weather, & Sports
• Online Books & Journals
• Physics

Professor:

• Reference Librarian & Webmaster

Education:

• Ph.D., Univ. of Texas at Austin
• M.L.S., Univ. of Texas at Austin
• B.A. (History), Univ. of Texas at Austin
• A.A., San Antonio College

Other education

• 24 graduate hours in Business Administration, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio

Office:

• Moody Learning Center (MLC) # 321
• Phone: (210) 880-4209
  FAX (210) 733-2597

Mailing address:

• Dr. Karen S. Balcom, San Antonio College Library, 1001 Howard St., San Antonio, TX 78212 USA

Email address:

• kbalcom@alamo.edu

Current Committee Service:

• Member of the Library's Special Collections Oversight Committee

Collection Development Areas & Policies:

• Computer Science & Information Systems
• General Science, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics

Library Liasion to the Departments of:

• Administrative Computer Technology
• Astronomy
• Mathematics & Computer Science
• Computer Information Systems
• Chemistry
• Physics

Professional Associations Memberships and Committees:

• Bexar Library Association, Texas Library Association (Secretary-Treasurer of the College and University Library Division, 2003-2004), American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Excellence in Academic Libraries Award Selection Committee, 2005-2006; American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Excellence in Academic Libraries Award Nomination Committee, 2006-2007, ACRL, Community & Junior College Libraries Section, Awards Committee, 2002-2006), National Council for Learning Resources, Awards Committee Chair, 2005-2007, Association for Computing Machinery (Life Member) & SIGGRAPH.

Honors

• Title II-B Fellowship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996-1998.

Community Service

• Reader/Evaluator of applications for the Ford Salute To Education Scholarships Program, San Antonio, 2006.

Favorite books:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Beowulf: a new verse translation by Seamus Heaney
• Schott's Miscellany
• The Texas Almanac
• The World Book Encyclopedia