UIC Library Faculty Profile: Paula R. Dempsey, Associate Professor and Head Librarian, Research Services & Resources: Presentations & Consulting

North American Virtual Reference Conference, February 12, 2019. "Effective Chat Reference Referral Strategies: Building Bridges to Subject Specialists." Online, 126 attendees.

Library Assessment Conference, December 7, 2018. Paper with Rebecca Graff and Adele Dobry. “Benchmarking Reference Data Collection: The Results of a National Survey.” Houston, Texas.

American Sociological Association, August 12, 2018.. Poster with Hailey Mooney. “Find and Cite Three-to-Five Sources: Applying the Sociological Imagination to Critical Information Literacy.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, March 18, 2016. "Anticipating Our Future and Valuing Our Past: Recent Trends in Public Service Delivery, Reports from Service to a Wide Variety of Academic Populations." Chicago.

Library Research Conference VI, October 8, 2014. Poster with Heather Jagman: “’I felt like such a freshman’: Weaving First-Year Student Identities through Collaborative Reflective Learning.” Urbana, Illinois.

Library Assessment Conference, August 5, 2014. "Assessing Information Literacy Instruction in the Virtual Sphere." Poster session. Seattle, Washington.

CARLI Annual Meeting, November 1, 2013. “What Do Faculty Favor?: Local Implementations of the Ithaka Faculty Survey in Illinois.” Co-presenter with Scott Walter, DePaul University, and Susan Searing and Jen-chien Yu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Conducted two-day Summer Institute for Teachers, “Online Research: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning,” Chicago Humanities Festival, 2010.

Chicago Library System Electronic Reference Tools Symposium, March 1, 2002.  Presented keynote address, "Librarianship and New Reference Technologies."  Member of planning committee.

External library reviews for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2016-present.

Prepared and presented literature review for a research colloquium organized by the Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, 2011.

Consulted with Auburn Seminary to assess the potential for collaboration among a group of small academic libraries, 2006.

Designed and led professional training, “Virtual Reference Service: Professional Goals and Strategies.” Columbia College Chicago, 2006.

Designed and led professional training, “Data Basics: Census 2000.” Metropolitan Library System, 2005.

Designed, launched, and analyzed statewide survey for the Illinois Library Systems Directors Organization to guide strategic planning efforts, summer-fall 2005.