Jill Cirasella
Assistant Professor
Library
Location: 141 Library
Phone: 718.758.8214
Fax: 718.951.4557
Email:
Jill Cirasella's Web site
Jill Cirasella is a reference and instruction librarian as well as the subject specialist for computer and information science, mathematics, physics, and physical education and exercise science.
Education:
M.S., Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation - 2006 (Logic)
M.S., Simmons College - 2001 (Library and Information Science)
B.A., Amherst College - 1998 (Computer Science)
Areas of Expertise:
Professional interests include science librarianship, scholarly communication and open science. Research interests include open access publishing, the relationship between Google and libraries, peer mentoring among junior library faculty, and the role of art in libraries.
Books and Publications
"A Librarian's Defense of the Practicable Over the Perfect in Scholarly Communication." Invited peer commentary. Psychological Inquiry 23.3: 251-52. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
Cirasella, Jill and Miriam Deutch. "From Art on the Wall to Something for All: How an Academic Library Turned Its Art Collection Into a Campus Attraction." Journal of Library Innovation 3.1: 1-19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
Cirasella, Jill and Maura A. Smale. "Peers Don't Let Peers Perish: Encouraging Research and Scholarship Among Junior Library Faculty." Collaborative Librarianship 3.2: 98-109. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Quantum Computing: Selected Internet Resources for Librarians, Researchers, and the Casually Curious." Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship 57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Google Like a Librarian." Unabashed Librarian 148: 3-6. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Keeping Abreast of Quantum News: Quantum Computing on the Web and in the Literature." Appendix D. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 357-59. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
"Historical Bibliography of Quantum Computing." Appendix A. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 319-24. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
"You and Me and Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google into the Reference Interview." Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Eds. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Special issue of Library Philosophy and Practice. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Google Sets, Google Suggest, and Google Search History: Three More Tools for the Reference Librarian's Bag of Tricks." Reference Librarian 48.1: 57-65. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Eds. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Special issue of Library Philosophy and Practice. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
Cirasella, Jill and Mariana Regalado. "Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google." Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Eds. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Special issue of Library Philosophy and Practice. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Finding Cycles. Master of Logic Series. MoL-2006-06. Amsterdam: ILLC Publications. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2006
Cirasella, J., D.S. Johnson, L.A. McGeoch and W. Zhang. "The Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem: Algorithms, Instance Generators, and Tests." Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation: Third International Workshop. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2153. Berlin: Springer. 32-59. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
"At Odds?: Privacy and Archives." Current Studies in Librarianship 24.1/2: 88-92. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Netherland-America Foundation Fulbright Fellowship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2002
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"Everybody Wins! The Win-Win Effect of Open Access Publishing." [Slides]. Member of three-person panel, "Open to It: Teaching, Researching, and Creating the Open-Culture Environement." Brooklyn College Faculty Day Conference. May 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Open Access Publishing in Science: Simple Idea, Complex Reality." [Slides]. Open Science Summit. Oct. 22-23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Everybody Wins! The Win-Win Effect of Open Access Publishing." [Slides]. Member of five-person panel, "Practice What We Preach: Making Open Access a Reality." CUNY 9th Annual IT Conference. Dec. 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
"More for You and More for Me: How Open Access Publishing Benefits Everyone." [Slides]. Open Access Week 2010. Brooklyn College. Oct. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010
"Brooklyn College Library's Online Art Catalog: Art on the Wall Goes Digital." [Slides]. Member of four-person panel, "Not Content With the Same Old Content: Using Technology to Enhance and Deliver Content in CUNY Libraries." CUNY 8th Annual IT Conference. Dec. 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Quirky, Not Quacky: Quantum Computing for Librarians" [Slides]. Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Science Librarians Special Interest Group. March 6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. Guest lecture to Information Services and Sources, LIS 652, Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science. New York, Nov. 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Dance Preservation and Self-Preservation." The Enriched Librarian: Avocations that Shape Us in Our Profession, LACUNY Winter Membership Meeting. Dec. 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Google Chrome, Google Docs, and the Explosion of Cloud Computing" [Handout]. Co-presented talk on Google Docs and professional collaboration. LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee Nov. 19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008
"Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. Brooklyn Public Library, New York, May 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. Google & Libraries Conference. Columbia University, New York, March 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. Guest lecture to Digital Information Services and Providers, LIS 454, Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Boston, April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. ILIAC's Crimea 2008 Conference. Sudak, Ukraine, June 7-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
Guest lecture about the Brooklyn College Library Online Art Catalogue to Introduction to the Creation of Digital Research Materials, LIS 901-06. Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, April 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Finding Cycles" [PDF slides]. Seminar in Knowledge, Games and Beliefs. CUNY Graduate Center, New York, July 27. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Does Google Make the Grade?: Evaluating Google Scholar." Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, June 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
"Teaching Google Scholar" [PPT slides]. Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Bibliographic Instruction Special Interest Group. New York, Oct. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006
Cirasella, J. and D. Kopec. "The History of Computer Games" [PDF handout]. Exhibit at Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years (AI@50). Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., July 13-15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006
"Google Goes to College: An Introduction to Google Scholar." Simmons College Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Simmons College, Boston, Sept. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005
Professional Leadership
Advisory board, Urban Library Journal, 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Editorial board, Library Philosophy and Practice, 2007-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Editorial board, Urban Library Journal, 2005-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Emerging Technologies Committee, Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Libraries & Information Technology Committee, University Faculty Senate, City University of New York, 2009-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
University Faculty Senate, City University of New York, 2009-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Member, Executive Council, Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), 2006-08 and 2009-11. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Member, Planning Committee, ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show, Brooklyn College, June 3. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2011
Co-organizer, STELLA (Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action) Unconference. University of Denver. Jan. 8-9. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Co-planner, OpenSciNY Conference. NYU, May 14. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Founding co-chairperson, Junior Faculty Research Roundtable, Library Association of the City University of New York, 2008-10. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010
Co-chairperson, Emerging Technologies Committee, Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), 2008-09. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Co-organizer, LibCampNYC 2009, Brooklyn College Library and METRO, June 3. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009
Community Activities
Library Committee, Dance Notation Bureau, 2006-present. 2012
Professional Advisory Committee, Dance Notation Bureau, 2007-present. 2012
Administrator, DNBlog, Dance Notation Bureau, 2007-09. 2009
Curator, Theory Bulletin Board Dance Notation Bureau, 2007-09. 2009
