Patrick Ragains Author

Patrick Ragains is Business and Government Information Librarian at the University of Nevada, Reno. He holds an MLS from the University of Arizona (1987) and an MA in History from Northern Arizona University (1984). He has edited Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population (ALA/Neal-Schuman, 2013) and has published articles in American Libraries, Communications in Information Literacy, Journal of Government Information, portal: Libraries & the Academy, and Research Strategies. He is former chair of the ACRL Research Committee and is active in the ACRL Instruction Section. M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, is Librarian Emerita, Penn State University Libraries, and a Fellow of the Medical Library Association. Ms. Wood is founding and current editor of Medical Reference Services Quarterly (in its 34th volume). She was a librarian for over thirty-five years at the George T. Harrell Library, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, specializing in reference, education, and database services. Ms. Wood has written or edited more than 12 books, the latest two entitled Health Sciences Librarianship and Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices (both with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014).