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

• U.S. History: Databases, Websites, Media/Visual Resources, Reference Sources, and Search Tips
• Mass Communications and Community Newspapers
• Government and Policy Studies and Law
• Social Sciences, including Sociology, Gender and Ethnic Studies
• Finding and Using Images
• All Subject Guides

• BCUSP107: The Human Place in Nature
• BCUSP117: Walking the City
• BIS300: Interdisciplinary Inquiry
• BIS300: Interdisciplinary Inquiry
• BIS351: Washington State's History and Heritage
• BIS351: American Ethnic Studies
• BIS364: Public Memory and Dissent
• BIS365: Popular and Consumer Culture
  
• BIS367: Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity
• BIS 372: Comparative Arts in the 18th Century
• BIS490: Intersections of Sex and Race
• HIST122: U.S. History Since 1865

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

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:

• American Library Association (ALA) Association of College and Research Libraries, Instruction Section
• American Library Association (ALA) Association of College and Research Libraries, Community and Junior Colleges Section
• College Librarians and Media Specialists of Washington State (CLAMS)

• American Studies - UW Bothell
• United States History - Cascadia Community College
  • Collection development resources
• Dance, Drama and Performance Studies
• All Librarians, by name and subject areas

• MLIS, University of Washington
• BS, History, Portland State University
• Curriculum Vitae

• 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