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Vicky Ludas Orlofsky

As the Head of the Research Services department, my work is focused on supporting student success through providing the Stevens community with reference help; teaching undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students about finding and evaluating research; introducing the Stevens community to the Library through orientations and tours; and ensuring the Library is a welcoming space through finals support and other events.

Education

• B.A., International Affairs, The George Washington University
• M.A., Liberal Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center
• M.S., Library & Information Science, Pratt Institute

Campus Service

• International Education Month Committee
• Office of Academics Staff Development Committee
• First Year Reading Program Committee
• Attila’s Spirit Day Committee / Duck Dash Subcommittee
• Staff Advisory Council Working Group

Publications & Presentations

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-5295

• Orlofsky, V. L. (2019-2020). Intellectual Freedom Blog, The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. Collected posts available at Vicky Ludas Orlofsky, Author at Intellectual Freedom Blog, including:
  • Memes, Fair Use, and Privacy (Jan. 2019)
  • Banning the Birds and the Bees: Challenges to Children’s Books about Sexuality (May 2019)
  • Maurice Sendak and the Librarians: When Censorship Came From Within (June 2019)
  • Windows, Not Walls: Defending Incarcerated People’s Right to Read (Sept. 2019).
• Orlofsky, V. L. (2015). “A different sort of bird.” In R. Hammerman & A. L. Russell (Eds.), Ada’s legacy: Cultures of computing from the Victorian to the digital age (Chapter 8). Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool.
• Lopatovska, I., Slater, A., Bronner, C., El Mimouni, H., Lange, L., & Ludas Orlofsky, V. (2014). In transition: Academic e-book reading in an institution without e-books. Library Review, 63(4/5), 261–275.
• Lopatovska, I., Pattuelli, M.C., Lange, L. & Orlofsky, V.L. (2013). E-books in academia: Expectations and challenges. iConference 2013 Proceedings (pp. 486-490). doi:10.9776/13261
• Orlofsky, V.L. (2012). Who’s happy now? A review of Satisfaction Not Guaranteed: Dilemmas of Progress in Modern Society by Peter N. Stearns. Zeteo Journal. Available at: http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/24/whos-happy-now/
• Orlofsky, V.L. (2012). “Brooklyn Diary, 1864” Digitization Project. Available at: https://brooklyndiary1864.wordpress.com
• Ludas, V. (2011). American Manpower: Work and Masculinity in the 1970s. (Unpublished master’s thesis). CUNY Academic Works. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds_legacy/244

Experience

• Evening and Weekend Public Services Assistant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
• Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute Libraries, Brooklyn NY
• Graduate Assistant, Dr. Irene Lopatovska, NY NY
• Assistant Manager and Young Adult Events Coordinator, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair NJ

Professional Societies

• Association of College & Research Libraries
• New Jersey Library Association
• METRO New York Library Council
• Beta Phi Mu (Theta chapter)