Christine Bombaro

Associate Director for Library Collections

Dickinson College

Waidner-Spahr Library
Carlisle, PA 17013

bombaroc@dickinson.edu
Office: (717) 245-1868

Professional Information
Publications
My Education
Family History
My Adorable Pets
My Autograph Hobby
Other Facts About Me

Professional Information
(Brief version. Click for a complete CV.)

Place	Title	Dates
Dickinson College	Associate Director for Library Collections Coordinator of Information Literacy Collection, Research & Instructional Services Librarian Liaison to: Art & Art History, English, Film Studies, History, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, & Philosophy	2008 - present 2005 - 2008 2003 - 2005
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania	Systems Trainer	Apr 1998 – Jul 2003
Gettysburg College	Manager of Research	Aug 1995 – Apr 1998

Selected Publications List

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Book project in progress: Finding History.

Osborne, John M. and Christine Bombaro. “Learning to Read the Signs.” The History Teacher. Article formally accepted for publication, forthcoming.

Bombaro, Christine. "The Clicky Things Rocked!" In Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors: 17 Innovative Strategies to Improve Student Learning. Edited by Douglas Cook and Ryan L. Sittler. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008.

Bombaro, Christine. “Using Audience Response Technology to Teach Academic Integrity: ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism’ at Dickinson College.” Reference Services Review 35, no. 2 (2007): 296 - 309. This article has been mentioned on two websites.

Bombaro, Christine and John C. Stachacz. “Case Study 1: The Library & the First-Year Experience Over Time at Dickinson College.” The Role of the Library in the First College Year. Edited by Larry Hardesty. Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for the First- Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2007.

Reviews

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, in Choice, September, 2009.

Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Internet Resource), in Choice, November 2008.

Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films About Women by Jane Sloan, in Choice, 2007.

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (Internet Resource), compiled by David Chalmers, in Choice, July 2006.

Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature by Jay Ruud in Choice, May 2006.

Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions, edited by William H. Brackney, in Choice, January 2006.
(Based on the review, this set was selected as a Choice “Outstanding Title!”)

Conflict Management for Libraries by Jack G. Montgomery and Eleanor I. Cook, in Against the Grain, October 2005.

My Education

Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (Cambridge, MA), August 2009.
Association of College & Research Libraries Institute for Information Literacy, 2006, Program Track
Drexel University, 1995, M.L.S.
Dickinson College, 1993, B.A. (History & Education Certification)
Padua Academy High School, 1989
Saint Monica, 1985 (grade school)

Family History

I posted my family tree on Earthlink.

My paternal grandmother's family came from Venafro, Italy.

I found some documents about my family on Ancestry.com:

My great-grandfather's immigrant registration card.
1930 census information for the D'Aguanno family, where my grandmother was a young teenager.
My grand-uncle Dominic's draft card.

My Adorable Pets

Pugsley
AKA: "Pugs," "Pugmeister P," "My Poochie"

Age: 7

Story: Bought from breeder at 7 weeks. Spoiled rotten since birth. Enjoys eating, sleeping, avoiding the other dog and terrorizing the rabbit.

Alastor Moody
AKA: "Al"

Age: 8

Story: Rescued. Abused by former owners. Enjoys
leaping on things, annoying Pugsley, making
up for 6 years of not eating properly, and finding
creative receptacles to double as urinals. (Translation: he
once took a pee in a vase on my dining room table.)

Rudee
AKA: none

Age: approximately 9

Story: Rescued with his now-deceased wife
from a woman with 8 loud cocker spaniels. Enjoys systematically destroying my baseboards and
causing floods in my laundry room.

My Autograph Hobby

My best friend, Anne Marie, and I like to travel to book festivals to meet authors and collect signed books.

(Left, Anne Marie in DC 2007; Right, me at same event with Jeff Shaara's Gods and Generals)

Me 2007

We go annually to the Library of Congress' National Book Festival (thank you, Laura Bush), Book Expo America, the Free Library of Philadelphia's Book Festival, the New York Public Library's Great Read in the Park, when they hold it.

I have autographs from the following authors (and many more - this is just a sample of my favorites):

Author's Site	Photo of Autograph	Story of the Autograph
J.K. Rowling		Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Christmas gift in 2006 from my dear friend Professor John Osborne.
James Ellroy		*The Black Dahlia* Met him at the New York Great Read in the Park in 2006. We talked about our dead mothers and exchanged phone numbers. No, seriously! Inscription says: "To Christine - You are lovelier than Christine Mollette." (An old girlfriend, apparently. And since she was a model, I doubt it.)
Khaled Hosseini		The Kite Runner Line very long in DC, 2006. He barely looked up.
Harry Shearer		*Not Enough Indians* Book Expo 2006. We had a fun discussion about why "Marge" suddenly disappeared from the set of Behind the Actors' Studio during the Simpsons episode. Apparently Lipton kept them for six hours.
Joyce Carol Oates		*Black Girl/White Girl* Book Expo 2006. I introduced myself. Between clenched teeth, she said: "I don't think I'm supposed to make personalizations." And she didn't.
Anne Rice		*Christ the Lord* From Jeff Wood's Whistlestop Bookshop.
Ian McEwan		*Amsterdam* Had dinner with him (literally, right across from him) when he won Dickinson's Stellfox Prize, 2005. Thank you English Department!!
Gerald Ford		A Time to Heal Died about a year and a half after I acquired this, from the Bosler Free Library's auction in 2004.
Margaret Thatcher		*Statehood* Gift from John Osborne, Christmas 2006. Watch out for the literary Angel of Death, Marge.
Jimmy Carter		Christmas in Plains You too, Jimbo. Also gift of John Osborne, Christmas 2005.
Yevgeni Yevtushenko		Collected Poems Library of Congress Book Festival, 2006. With paisley pastel tie, plaid pastel jacket, many baubles on his wrist, and his Russian entourage surreounding him, he asked what I do for a living, and when I told him, he responded: "Noble profession." Indeed.
Toni Morrison		*Beloved* I took a gamble and mailed it to her office address at Princeton. She signed it and returned it in the SASE I provided.