Stephen Allan Ford, M.L.I.S.
Research/Instructional & Information Literacy Librarian
Liaison to the Education and Art Departments
 
Salisbury University | Blackwell Library, BL 133
1101 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, Maryland 21801
e-mail: saford@salisbury.edu | phone: 410-548-5972
web: http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~saford/ | fax: 410-543-6203
 
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Stephen is the Information Literacy Librarian in the Research & Instructional Services Department of Blackwell Library, Salisbury University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  In addition to coordinating the library instruction program and teaching, he serves as liaison to both the Education and the Art Departments, where he is involved with initiatives designed to improve collaboration. His professional interests include information literacy theory, design and application, library instruction and reference services.  

Before moving to the Eastern Shore, Stephen was an assistant professor at Anne Arundel Community College with a focus on library instruction where he built the information literacy initiative into a prominent campus program, including two credit-courses in Information Literacy and a full complement of library instruction services and resources both on-site and web based.  Stephen also coordinated the multi-campus Student Success Program, managing, and teaching, a popular course that taught students the skills they need to succeed in college.

In addition to teaching, Stephen is involved in numerous internal and external professional committees, workgroups and initiatives.  He is involved on the state level is as a founding member of MILEX (Maryland Information Literacy Exchange), a collaborative of Maryland academic libraries to promote information literacy in higher education.  MILEX members work together to develop better pedagogical, promotional and organizational models and materials for Maryland librarians and faculty interested in information literacy.

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