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May Chau

Agricultural Sciences Reference Librarian/Associate Professor

121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Email: may [dot] chau [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
Phone: 1 541-737-0565
Fax: 1 541-737-8224
Primary Duties: Reference, Instruction, Research, Liaison, Collection Development, Serving on Committees.
Subjects: Agriculture, Ag Econ, Ag. Edu.; Crop Science, Soil Science, Horticulture, Botany & Plant Pathology, Entomology.
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  • Contact me for help with:

    In-depth research questions, verification of bibliographic citations, library instruction,special projects (e.g. digitizing certain publications etc.)

Brief CV

  • Education

    M.S.L.S. 1991 Library Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
    M.S. 1987 Horticulture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
    B.S. 1984 Horticulture, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
    B.A. 1984 Fine Arts, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

    Research and Professional Interests

    Learning Styles, Life Long Learning

    Works in Progress

    Manuscript "Do Learning Strategies help develop higher order thinking?"
    New tutorial for Learning Strategies

Publications and More

  • Selected Publications

    ** Michael H. Boock, May Chau 2007, “The Use of Value Engineering in the Evaluation and Selection of Digitization Projects” Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Vol. 2 (3)
    (September 2007) http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/254/52...

    **May Y. Chau 2006, “Connecting Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences Theories Through Learning Strategies: An Online Tutorial for Library Instruction”. LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research (An Internationally Refereed Electronic Journal) Vol.16 (1) (March 2006). http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres16n1/

    **May Y. Chau 2003, “Helping Hands: Serving and Engaging International Students” Reference Librarian Vol. 38 (79) (November 2003) http://www.haworthpress.com/store/EText/View_EText.asp?a=3&fn=J120v38n79...

    **May Y. Chau. 2001, “Mediating Of-Site Electronic Reference Services: Human-computer interactions between librarians and web mining technology”. Howlett and Jain Ed. “Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies. Vol. 2 p 695-699. Aug. 30- Sept 1, 2000 University of Brighton, Sussex, U.K. IEEE Piscataway, N.J. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/7097/19130/00884141.pdf

Committees

  • Professional Associations and Committees

    Institutional Representative for AGNIC 2005 -
    Institutional Representative for USAIN 2005-