Valerie Forrestal is the Web Services Librarian at the College of Staten Island, where she builds and maintains websites and web-based content, and is responsible for providing technology training for faculty and staff. She specializes in UX-based, accessible web design and development, educational technology, and innovation and digital strategies in libraries and higher education.
Professor Forrestal's current research interests involve information organization and design in learning management systems/virtual learning environments, and making online learning more accessible for neurodivergent students.
Degrees
MS, Stevens Institute of Technology - Service-Oriented Computing
MLIS, Rutgers University - Library and Information Science
MA, Emerson College - Media Arts/Audio Production
BA, University of Maine - Mass Communication/Media Studies
- Forrestal, Valerie, and Tinamarie Vella. Using Twitter to Build Communities : a Primer for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
- Forrestal, Valerie. Knowledge Management for Libraries. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Arnett, Barbara, and Valerie Forrestal. “Bridging the Gap from Wikipedia to Scholarly Sources: A Simple Discovery Tool.” College & Undergraduate Libraries, vol. 19, no. 2-4, 2012, pp. 176–88, https://doi.org/10.1080/10691316.2012.693361.
- Forrestal, Valerie. “Making Twitter Work: A Guide for the Uninitiated, the Skeptical, and the Pragmatic.” The Reference Librarian, vol. 52, no. 1-2, 2011, pp. 146–51, https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2011.527607.
