Welcome to our new e-learning librarian, Navadeep Khanal. Nav has a MS and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign along with experience in user services, instructional technology, community informatics and teaching. Nav also has a variety of library experience in his background. While completing an undergraduate degree in psychology at Hanover College, Nav worked as a student assistant, and later as an Assistant Manager in the Circulation Department. Later, while completing his MLS at the U of I, he worked as a graduate reference assistant in the Education and Social Science Library. As our E-Learning Librarian, Nav will develop MU Libraries' e-learning initiatives by coordinating planning and communication across the campus and within the libraries. Specific responsibilities will include assisting librarians with technical and pedagogical aspects of e-instruction, coordinating online tutorials and working with campus units such as ET@MO and MizzouOnline.
Nav’s office will be located in the East Reference office suite at Ellis Library.