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Contact


Belk Library & Information Commons
218 College Street
PO Box 32026
Boone, NC 28608

Phone: 828.262.6903
Fax:: 828.262.6949

Email: purpurgm@appstate.edu

Geri Purpur

Distance Learning Librarian
Distance Learning Library Services

Library Responsibilities

  • Provides research and reference assistance to the distance learning students via phone, chat, face-to-face and in the AETZone.
  • Provides information literacy instruction and library orientation to distance learning students face-to-face, in the AETZone and via Elluminate
  • Participates in the library's on-campus instruction and information literacy program
  • Participates in the "Embedded Librarian" initiative via AsULearn

Service Interests

  • Member of the Training and Development Task Force
  • Member of Internal Building Group II

Scholarly Interests

  • Teaching and learning in a 3D virtual learning environment
  • Presence Pedagogy (P2): utilizing web 2.0 technologies in a 3D environment to promote engaged teaching and learning
  • Instructional design in traditional online learning formats- i.e. AsUlearn