Staff Biography: Amy Fyn

Amy Fyn holds an M.L.I.S. From Wayne State University, an M.A. in English Literature from Boston College, and a B.A. in English from The University of Toledo.

As a Reference and Instruction librarian, Amy Fyn is liaison to the departments of Criminal Justice; English; Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies; Philosophy; and Social Work.

Her research interests include studying how librarians use the tools they use to do their work; academic mentoring; the information needs of graduate and nontraditional students; and library collaboration with non-academic units.

Publications include a chapter in Convergence and collaboration of campus information services (Hernon, P. and R. R. Powell, editors. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2008), book reviews in Reference and User Services Quarterly, and contributions to a forthcoming cumulative index for Libraries & Culture. She has presented at WILU (Workshop for Instruction in Library Use), LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange), TechConnections, and ALAO (Academic Library Association of Ohio). She also blogs on the UL Professional Development Blog.

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