Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic

Laureen P. Cantwell-Jurkovic, PhD, MSLIS, is the Head of Access Services & Outreach at Colorado Mesa University’s Tomlinson Library. She co-edited Finding Your Seat at the Table: Roles for Librarians on Institutional Regulatory Boards and Committees (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) and was sole editor for Intersections in Healing: Academic Libraries and the Health Humanities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). She has also published book chapters and articles on topics ranging from librarians on IRBs to libraries and MOOCs, from library spaces as curiosity drivers to Covid-era curbside pickup services, from information literacy activism to digital badging, and more. As part of being liaison to CMU’s Davis School of Business, she works with students and faculty within entrepreneurship, marketing, and other concentrations to bring GIS tools and research opportunities into their lives.