About
Andy Burkhardt is the Emerging Technologies Librarian at Champlain College in Burlington, VT and in 2010 won the Lyrasis Next-Gen Librarian award. Professionally, he is interested in technology in the service of education, social media, information literacy, and coming up with new approaches to old library problems. He has presented on these topics at local, regional and national conferences.
Personally, he’s interested in dinosaurs, finding adventures (preferably outdoors), and the internet.
He has created and implemented numerous technologies in the service of libraries including mobile phone polling, video tutorials, various social media accounts, and instant messaging for reference among others. He’s passionate about finding thoughtful technological solutions to problems in higher education.
Dedicated to the idea that librarians are first and foremost educators, he is continually looking for ways to improve himself and learn more about teaching methods, pedagogy, educational theory, assessment and instructional design. In the summer of 2010 he participated in the teacher track of ACRL’s Immersion program.
He earned his MLIS from UW-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. And his BA in philosophy was obtained at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN.
For even more information, check out these interviews:
- Lyrasis Next-Gen Librarian Award Interview
- ACRL – New England
- Dean Giustini – The Search Principle Blog
Disclaimer: My views are my own, not whoever I may be currently employed by.
