Previously Sue was the full-time Library & Information Science Librarian with a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Earlier in her career she was a reference librarian at Yale, the Women’s Studies Librarian-at-Large for the 26-campus University of Wisconsin System, and the Deputy Director of the General Library System of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published research on topics related to library services and reference sources, and is currently co-PI for a grant from IMLS to study the field experience in academic libraries as a component of LIS education. To find out more about Sue, visit http://www.library.illinois.edu/people/bios/searing/