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Christine Baker

Assistant Librarian
Special Formats Metadata Librarian
Christine BakerChristine has been at Mines since 2004. She began at the Library’s Front Desk and then moved into the Library’s Government Publications section where she developed a keen interest in cataloging and metadata. Soon afterward, and ever since, Christine has taken on the role of Special Formats Metadata Librarian where she works to ensure access to and discovery of the Library’s special formats, both in the online catalog and in Mines Institutional Repository. She works primarily with Mines theses and dissertations, digitized and print special collections, and a variety of other formats.

Contact

Library Room #166
(303) 273-3446
chbaker@mines.edu
Contact for: Electronic Thesis & Dissertations (ETDs)
Department Contact for: Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS)

Education

  • MLS, Emporia State University
  • BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Selected Publications

  • Andersen, Patricia E. and Christine Baker. “Using the LibQUAL+ Survey to Inform Strategic Planning.” Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, December 5-7, 2018, Houston, TX, pp. 287-295, edited by Sue Baughman et al., Association of Research Libraries, 2019. https://www.libraryassessment.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Proceedings-2018-rs.pdf   

  • Baker, Christine. “Metadata and Minerals: A Library – Museum Pilot Project.” Presentation at 2019 Digital Initiatives Symposium, April 30, 2019, San Diego, CA. https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2019/2019/16/ 

  • Baker, Christine. “Review of World Digital Library.” Collaborative Librarianship, vol. 4, no. 3, 2012, pp. 128-129. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol4/iss3/  

  • Dunn, Lisa G.; Baker, Christine. “Archival Papers of Field Geologists: Challenges of Discovery and Access to the Breadth of Geologic Data from Unpublished Field Research.” Proceedings of the 47th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society, Oct 22-25 2017, Seattle WA (in press). 

Professional Activities

  • Graduate Council, 2015 – 2019, 2021 – 
  • Faculty Handbook Committee, 2007 – 2011 
  • Mines Institutional Repository Steering Committee 
  • Colorado Association of Libraries, Member 
  • American Library Association, Member
  • Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, Member 

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