Sarah Leadley

 

 

Head, Reference and Instruction Services/ American Studies Librarian
hello - I work closely with students and faculty at the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College in the areas of American Studies, United States History, Art, Drama and Performance Studies.

Students: Please contact me if you need any help with your research projects. I'm available by phone, email, IM, and in-person by appointment. I can help you focus your topic or question, identify starting points for your research, fine-tune your search skills, evaluate your sources and cite them correctly.

Faculty: I'm available to work with you to design research assignments for your classes, create specialized research guides, and collaborate in creating interactive hands-on workshops for your students. More

Email: sleadley@uwb.edu
Phone: 425-352-5387
Office Location: Library LB1-310D

You can also find me on Facebook

If I'm not available, we have many ways you can get help

You can call the Library's reference desk: 425-352-3146

You can also try Q&A Live, a collaborative digital reference service that allows you to chat with a librarian in real time

Recommended Subject Resource Guides for American Studies and U.S. History
 
Teaching

Please note: some of the links on these guides may not work - please let me know if you need help finding what you need.

Click here for current class research guides for UWB or Cascadia students

Miscellaneous Primary Source Websites

Selected Publications, Presentations and Committees

Current Committees

  • Washington State Sophomore Competencies Working Group
  • UWB Faculty Oversight Committee for University Studies (FOCUS)
  • UWB Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program, Affiliate Faculty
  • UWB Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program, Master of Arts in Cultural Studies planning group
  • UWB Teaching Circle
  • UWB/CCC Library Web Team (chair)
  • UW Libraries Undergraduate Initiative Task Force
  • UW Libraries Assessment Team
  • Cultural Studies Praxis Group

Publications and Presentations

  • Bruce Burgett (IAS) and Sarah Leadley (Library) presented their collaborative work on the IAS core course (BIS 300: Interdisciplinary Inquiry) at "Beyond Wikipedia and Google," a workshop on teaching information literacy hosted by the UW Teaching Academy as part of the series: Provosts Workshops on Teaching and Learning (May 18, 2007).  Along with Cinnamon Hillyard (IAS), they also made a similar presentation at the the annual meeting of the Association for Integrative Studies in Tucson, Arizona (September 2007).

  • Leadley, S. (May 18, 2006). Common Ground: Information Literacy at two year and four year Colleges. Panel presentation at the College Librarians & Media Specialists of Washington State Conference (CLAMS). Moses Lake, WA.

  • Leadley, S. (October 27, 2005). From Here to Eternity: The long road to information literacy/competency for students in higher education. Panel presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries of Washington and Oregon Conference. Packforest, WA.

  • Leadley, S., Rosenberg, B. Yours, Mine and Ours: Collaboration among Faculty, Library, and Writing Center. Centers for Learning: Writing Centers and Libraries in Collaboration. Publications in Librarianship, No. 58. Association of College and Research Libraries: Chicago, 2005.

  • LOEX of the West, 2000. Bozeman, MT. “A Model of Collaboration among Faculty, Librarians, and Writing Instructors Integrating Research, Writing, and Reading Instruction in an Interdisciplinary Studies Program”.

  • LOEX of the West, 1998. Cedar City, UT. “Teaching Meetings: Providing a Forum for Learning how to Teach”.

  • Leadley, Sarah. “Teaching Meetings: Providing a Forum for Learning how to Teach”. Reference Services Review. Fall/winter 1998.

Memberships:

Liaison/Subject Areas
Biographical Details
  • MLIS, University of Washington
  • BS, History, Portland State University
  • Curriculum Vitae
  Book picks  
 

 

 

  • Memory of fire / by Eduardo Galeano
  • The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Michael Chabon
  • Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides
  • The English patient / Michael Ondaatje
  • One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • If on a winter's night a traveler / Italo Calvino
  • A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters / Julian Barnes
  • Safe area Gorazde / Joe Sacco
  • The Namesake / Jhumpra Lahiri
  • Selected Stories / Alice Munro
  • Ursula Under / Ingrid Hill
  • The Master / Colm Toibin

The Library's Recreational Reading Collection