11/16/2015
Leslie Murtha is a public services librarian with over twenty years experience in academic libraries. Currently employed as the Senior Reference and Instruction Librarian for Atlantic Cape Community College, Ms. Murtha also served as the Branch Campus Librarian. Before joining the staff at Atlantic Cape, Ms. Murtha held an adjunct position for several years as Social Sciences and Humanities Librarian at Firestone Library at Princeton University, and was employed for over a ten years in various capacities in the Rutgers University Libraries. She has also worked for College of Saint Elizabeth, Hudson County Community College, and the County College of Morris. Early in
her career, she held several positions in public libraries in New Jersey.
Ms. Murtha holds an M. L. S. from the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University, an Ed. M. in Adult and Continuing Education from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, and a B. A. in Theater Arts from Douglass College. In a previous career, she constructed costumes for Broadway and major dance companies and designed for summer stock and regional theater companies.
Ms. Murtha has written and presented on a variety of topics relating to information literacy, and has served as Information Officer of the Information Literacy Section of IFLA, chaired the User Education Committee of the New Jersey chapter of ACRL, and served on various committees and task forces of the Instruction Section of ACRL and the Library Instruction Round Table of ALA. Her research interests include information literacy, adult learning processes, librarians as educators, and digital multimedia instruction.
