Felicia A. Smith, Assistant Librarian, is University of Notre Dame's first ever, Outreach Librarian. She is also the Latino Studies librarian. Before becoming a librarian, Ms. Smith worked as a Criminal Defense Private Investigator in Chicago, Illinois specializing in homicide and narcotics. She carried a 357 Magnum, which fellow librarians think may be useful in this profession.
"Reflections of a Resident" *Animated on Internet Explorer Office Information: 208E Hesburgh Library Notre Dame, IN 46556 Office:  (574) 631-2767 Fax:     (574) 631-6772 E-mail: fsmith3@nd.edu Curriculum Vitae	She was a Librarian-In-Residence at Notre Dame. She worked in Kresge Law Library; taught a Research Skills class for academic credit in the Chemistry Library and Collection Development and Electronic Resources in Hesburgh Library. Ms. Smith has worked in academic, medical, and public libraries. She earned her B.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois at Chicago and her M.A. in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (2004). She was an invited panelist at the IFLA conference in Italy (2009) and her first book Cybrarian Extraordinaire will be published soon (2010). She has published several scholarly articles including, J.A.W.S.: a Historical Perspective;" "The Pirate Teacher" and "Games for Teaching Information Literacy Skills." She wrote the script for and starred in a RefWorks commercial which became a YouTube video called "Citation Cop". She was a Spectrum Scholar as well as one of the first ALA Emerging Leaders. She created a Literacy Outreach Program for inmates at the Juvenile Justice Center as discussed in the library's Access newsletter. She also teaches classes using the virtual world called Second Life, as described in the university's NDWorks newspaper.	Sample articles: Pursuit of Employment in the New Millennium (2007) Weary Helper: From Private Investigator to Librarian (2006) Spiritual Literacy: a New concept for a New Reality (2006) Silent Librarian Syndrome (2006) Reflections of a Resident (2005) Red Pill or Blue Pill article (2001)