Jill Cirasella

Assistant Professor
Computational Sciences Specialist
Brooklyn College Library
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210

(718) 758-8214
cirasella (at) brooklyn (dot) cuny (dot) edu
My "Official" Faculty Details Page

• Computer & Information Science
• Online Guide: Library Resources for Computer & Information Science Research
• Handout (PDF): Quick Tips for Computer & Information Science Research
   
• Economics, Business & Accounting
• Online Guide: Library Resources for Economics/Business/Accounting Research
• Handout (PDF): Quick Tips for Economics, Business & Accounting Research
   
• Mathematics
• Online Guide: Library Resources for Mathematics Research
• Online Guide: Mathematics Study Help Sites
• Handout (PDF): Quick Tips for Mathematics Research
• Handout (PDF): Quick Tips for Mathematics Education Research
• Handout (PDF): Browsing Guide for Math Call Numbers (QA)
   
• Jobs and Careers
• Online Guide: Library Resources for Job and Career Research
   
• Library and Information Science

• Google and Reference Librarianship (see Publications and Presentations)
• Librarianship for Quantum Computing (see Publications)
• Brooklyn College Library Art Catalogue
• Open Access Publishing
• Highlighting Faculty Publications

• "Quantum Computing: Selected Internet Resources for Librarians, Researchers, and the Casually Curious." Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship 57 (2009).
   
• "Historical Bibliography of Quantum Computing." Appendix A. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. By Noson S. Yanofsky and Mirco A. Mannucci. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 319-324.
   
• "Keeping Abreast of Quantum News: Quantum Computing on the Web and in the Literature." Appendix D. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists. By Noson S. Yanofsky and Mirco A. Mannucci. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 357-359.
   
• "Google Like a Librarian." Unabashed Librarian 148 (2008), 3-6.
   
• "Google Sets, Google Suggest, and Google Search History: Three More Tools for the Reference Librarian's Bag of Tricks." Reference Librarian 48.1 (2007), 57-65.
    
• Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Ed. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Spec. issue of Library Philosophy and Practice (2007).
   
• "Editorial: Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google," with Mariana Regalado. Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Ed. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Spec. issue of Library Philosophy and Practice (2007).
   
• "You and Me and Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google into the Reference Interview." Shape Shifters: Librarians Evolve Yet Again in the Age of Google. Ed. Mariana Regalado and Jill Cirasella. Spec. issue of Library Philosophy and Practice (2007).
   
• Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Finding Cycles. Master of Logic Series. MoL-2006-06. Amsterdam: ILLC Publications, 2006.
   
• "The Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem: Algorithms, Instance Generators, and Tests," with D. S. Johnson, L. A. McGeoch, and W. Zhang. Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation: Third International Workshop. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2153. Berlin: Springer, 2001. 32-59.
   
• "At Odds?: Privacy and Archives." Current Studies in Librarianship 24.1/2 (2000): 88-92. 

• "Quirky, Not Quacky: Quantum Computing for Librarians" [Slides]. Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Science Librarians Special Interest Group, March 6, 2009.
   
• "Dance Preservation and Self-Preservation." The Enriched Librarian: How Our Avocations Shape Us in Our Profession, LACUNY Winter Membership Meeting, December 12, 2008.
   
• "Google Chrome, Google Docs, and the Explosion of Cloud Computing" [Handout]. Co-presented talk on Google Docs and professional collaboration. LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee, November 19, 2008.
   
• "Reference Retooled: How Google Tools Strengthen and Streamline Reference Service" [Slides and related info]. Presented at:
  • Pratt Institute, School of Information & Library Science, LIS 652, November 13, 2008.
  • Crimea 2008 Conference, Sudak, Ukraine, June 7-15, 2008.
  • Brooklyn Public Library, May 28, 2008.
  • Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, LIS 454, April 28, 2008.
  • Google & Libraries Conference, Columbia University, March 10, 2008.
     
• "Google and Wikipedia Can Actually Lead to Good Research Skills." Brooklyn College Center for Teaching, Brownbag Discussion, October 29, 2008.
   
• Guest lecture about the Brooklyn College Library Online Art Catalogue to Introduction to the Creation of Digital Research Materials, LIS 901-06, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, April 14, 2008.
   
• "Teaching Google Scholar" [PPT slides]. Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), Bibliographic Instruction Special Interest Group, October 18, 2006.
   
• "Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Finding Cycles" [PDF slides]. Seminar in Logic and Games at CUNY Grad Center, July 27, 2006.
   
• "The History of Computer Games" [PDF handout], with IM Dr. Danny Kopec. Exhibit at Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years (AI@50), Dartmouth College, July 13-15, 2006.
   
• "Does Google Make the Grade?: Evaluating Google Scholar." Borough of Manhattan Community College, June 29, 2006. [Slides superseded by Teaching Google Scholar slides.]
   
• "Is Google the Library of the Future?" Member of five-person panel at Borough of Manhattan Community College, October 27, 2005. [Slides superseded by Teaching Google Scholar slides.]
   
• "Google Goes to College: An Introduction to Google Scholar." Simmons College, September 16, 2005. [Slides superseded by Teaching Google Scholar slides.]

• LibCampNYC 2009 (co-organizer), Brooklyn College Library and METRO, June 3, 2009.
• Firefox Plug-In Showcase (co-organizer), LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee and METRO, April 3, 2009.
• IRB Workshop (co-organizer), LACUNY Junior Faculty Research Roundtable and LACUNY Professional Development Committee, February 26, 2009.
• Google Chrome, Google Docs, and the Explosion of Cloud Computing (co-organizer), LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee, November 19, 2008.
• Free and Open Source Software for Librarians: Why Software Freedom Matters (co-organizer), LACUNY Emerging Technologies Committee, July 10, 2008.

• Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), Junior Faculty Research Roundtable (founding co-chair), 2008-present.
• Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), Emerging Technologies Committee (co-chair), 2008-2009.
• Library Association of the City University of New York (LACUNY), Executive Council, 2006-2008.
• Library Philosophy and Practice, Editorial Board, 2007-present.
• Urban Library Journal, Editorial Board, 2005-present.
• Urban Library Journal, Advisory Board, 2008-present.
• Dance Notation Bureau, Library Committee, 2006-present.
• Dance Notation Bureau, Professional Advisory Committee, 2007-present.

• DNBlog: News and Moves from the Dance Notation Bureau, Blog Administrator.
• Dance Notation Bureau Theory Bulletin Board, Curator.
• "Jailbait: Perfect Forsythe from NDT." Dance Insider, June 19, 2003.
• "Weill Song: Something to Care About from Het." Dance Insider, May 15, 2003.
• "Questions à Jill Cirasella" [or in French]. Interview with Marion Bastien. Notation du Mouvement, April 2002.

• Master of Science (with honors), 2006, Logic, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Funded by a Netherland-America Foundation Fulbright Grant)
• Master of Science, 2001, Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston, MA
• Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude), 1998, Computer Science, Amherst College, Amherst, MA