research overview Professor Gerke's research focuses on how users of libraries and their spaces interact. She also is interested in the effects and landscape of mentoring in libraries for both early career and mid-career librarians.
selected publications chapter Inorganic is Still Good for You: Building a Structured Group Mentoring Program for Librarians. 19-38. 2017 Environment and Energy. 277-292. 2011 A New Route to an Old Resource: Facilitating Access to Library Research Guides for the Self-Serve Generation. 129-152. 2010 From Useless to Useful: Providing Access to Library Research and Subject Guides 2010 Government Information in the 21st Century: A New Model for Academic Depository Outreach 2009 conference proceeding Counting Heads: Building Space Assessment into your Library Assessment Plan. 152-160. 2017 journal article Evaluating reference data accuracy: a mixed methods study. Reference Services Review: reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age. 298-312. 2013 The Physical and the Virtual: The Relationship between Library as Place and Electronic Collections. College and Research Libraries. 20-31. 2010 Web-Based Information and Prospective Students with Disabilities: A Study of Liberal Arts Colleges. Educause Quarterly. 51-59. 2004
education and training M.L.S., Indiana University at South Bend 2003 M.A., Washington University 1999 B.A., Hollins College 1998