Penny Hecker

Penny Hecker is an Associate Professor of Library Science and serves as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Sims Memorial Library. She earned her Master of Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University and her undergraduate degree at the University of New Orleans. She has been a member of the American Library Association (ALA), Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and Louisiana Libraries Association (LLA). Professor Hecker has been published in Louisiana Libraries and Codex: The Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL. She conducted a roundtable discussion at an ACRL conference, presented at LLA conferences, LOUIS Users Conferences, and was a member of the ACRL Instruction Section Research and Scholarship Committee. She also participated in the ACRL Immersion program, their long-running, selective professional development workshop.

Office: Sims 134

Professor Hecker is an instructor of LS 1020: Introduction to Information Research. The course introduces students to undergraduate research skills. She believes her role as an LS 1020 instructor is that undergraduates best learn research skills by doing research, thus applying themselves in active learning. Her sections of LS 1020 utilize both objective and subjective assessment to achieve this outcome.