Charney, Madeleine

Job Title

Research Services Librarian, University Libraries

Last Name

Charney

First Name

Madeleine

Discipline

Library and Information Science

Expertise

Landscape Design/Architecture and Regional Planning
Permaculture Design
Sustainability Studies

Introduction

Madeleine Charney serves as the librarian to the departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Regional Planning; the Stockbridge School of Agriculture; the School of Earth & Sustainability; and the Intercampus Marine Science Graduate Program. She also supports the Offices of Civic Engagement & Community Service and Religious & Spiritual Life. She provides library research support for students, faculty, staff, classes and the general public. Her areas of interest include medicinal herbs, food systems, permaculture design, and contemplative pedagogy as it relates to academic librarianship. She also facilitates nature therapy and labyrinth walks for individual, professional and societal transformation.

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Open Access Week Schedule
(2009-10-19) Adamick, Jessica; Charney, Madeleine
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Sustainability Resources Workshop
(2013-10-23) Charney, Madeleine
The sustainability movement inspires students, faculty and staff in the classroom and across campus. Learn about Open Educational Resources which allow faculty to tailor their course material and save students money. The workshop includes a demonstration of the new Campus Sustainability Initiative page on ScholarWorks, the digital repository of UMass Amherst. Q&A time will allow time for sharing ideas about integrating reliable, cost-saving material into the curriculum.
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Sustainability Resources at the UMass Amherst Libraries - Faculty Workshop
(2011-10-26) Charney, Madeleine K.
The sustainability movement is touching all corners of the UMass Amherst campus. Join your fellow faculty members to learn about rich library resources to enhance the sustainability curriculum. Library specialists across disciplines will briefly present a sampling of relevant and dynamic tools to enliven the teaching and learning experience. There will be time for questions and sharing ideas about what's happening in our classrooms, across campus and in the local/global community. Simple fare of local origin will be served.
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2005 Library Career Reception/ALANA Dinner
(2005-11-09) Charney, Madeleine
The Libraries’ Community, Diversity, and Social Justice Committee (CDSJ) will host the 4th annual ALANA Library Career Reception on Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Learning Commons at the Du Bois Library. “Me, a Librarian?” is an information session that is aimed at informing minority students of the opportunities available to them in the field of librarianship. The keynote speaker will be Tracie Hall, director of the American Library Association Office for Diversity. Before coming to ALA, Hall worked as manager and community librarian of the Albany branch of the Hartford Public Library and as young adult librarian and young adult specialist at the New Haven Free and Seattle public libraries, respectively. She received the 1996 ALA Excellence in Youth Services Award, the 21st Century Leadership Award from the University of Washington Library and Information Science School in 1999, and the 1996 Seattle Public Library Innovative Service Award. Prior to her work in libraries, Hall served as director of a homeless shelter for teenagers in Los Angeles County. With interests in community service, leadership, and organizational development, Hall has been a board member or consultant to many non-profit and community based organizations and has facilitated training workshops for multi-type libraries nationwide. Hall received dual bachelor's degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a M.A. from Yale University, and an MLIS from the University of Washington. She was designated a “Mover and Shaker’ by Library Journal in August 2004. A large number of retirements over the next decade is expected to result in many job openings for librarians, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Librarians increasingly use information technology to perform research, classify materials, and help students and library patrons seek information. The traditional concept of a library is being redefined from a place to access paper records or books to one that also houses the most advanced media. Consequently, librarians, or information professionals, are increasingly combining traditional duties with tasks involving quickly changing technology. This event is sponsored by the Libraries, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library & Information Studies, and Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science.
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Review of Bioactive Components in Milk and Dairy Products
(2010) Charney, Madeleine
The Western world tends to consider cows to be the main source of milk and dairy products. However, Bioactive Components in Milk and Dairy Products presents the production, chemistry, and nutritional qualities of milk from a variety of mammals: goat, sheep, buffalo, camel, and mare, as well as the cow.
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Academic Librarians and the Sustainability Curriculum: Building Alliances to Support a Paradigm Shift
(2014) Charney, Madeleine
Sustainability is a fast evolving movement in higher education demonstrated by a proliferation of academic programs and co-curricular initiative and projects. After a review of sustainability-related LibGuides (online resource guides) created by academic librarians, a survey was administered to their developers during the spring of 2011 and posted on library listservs. Librarians returned 112 survey responses which reflected active roles in the paradigm shift toward sustainability through the forging of partnerships across campus and development of teaching resources and events. Telephone interviews conducted with 24 of the respondents showed librarians’ wide-ranging personal and professional interest in sustainability, and their initiatives to promote its cause, including creating resources, collections, exhibits and events; library instruction; co-teaching with faculty; serving on sustainability committees, and collaborating with sustainability faculty and staff. A case study of the engagement of University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries with campus sustainability initiatives as well as the author’s professional development activities shows that librarians promote sustainability in numerous ways on their campuses and through professional associations. However, both the survey and the interviews suggest that librarians often lack contact or knowledge of work undertaken elsewhere. Moreover, as the needs of students and faculty studying sustainability increase, libraries should appoint librarians with special responsibilities in this field.
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Sunflower Seeds and Their Products
(2010) Charney, Madeleine
Sunflower as a commodity for both food and seed.
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Vision of Self-Sufficiency Comes Alive (on Less Than Two Acres!)
(2009) Charney, Madeleine K.
A Montague, Massachusetts family relishes their traditional homesteading lifestyle.
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At Home with Death
(2004) Charney, Madeleine K.
From website to gravesite, a budding landscape designer learns firsthand about the ties between technology, community, and the land.
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Stocking Rates for Operators of Small Horse Farms
(2006) Charney, Madeleine; Johnson, Sue Ellen
As Project Assistant, I collaborated with Dr. Sue Ellen Johnson on this brochure. The project was a planning grant for USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Planning Initiative, to support sustainable grazing practices in the Chicopee River Basin, Massachusetts’ largest watershed.