Mary Jane Brustman is the Head of Dewey Library and Bibliographer for Social Welfare and Criminal Justice. She previously served as Reference Bibliographer for Dewey Library and prior to coming to the university, was a Reference Librarian at the University of New Hampshire. Mary Jane has a B.A. and M.L.S. from the University at Albany.

As a bibliographer Mary Jane's responsibilities include managing the social welfare and criminal justice collections, providing in-depth reference services to students and faculty in those disciplines, and providing instruction to classes. She maintains two subject web pages, one for Criminal Justice that may be found at: http://library.albany.edu/subject/subject_index/Criminal.html and one for Social Welfare that is found at: http://library.albany.edu/subject/subject_index/Social.html.

Mary Jane is active in the American Library Association, currently as chair of the Association of College & Research Libraries Education and Behavioral Science Section (EBSS) Nominating Committee. Her other Association of College & Research Libraries service has been on the Executive Committee of EBSS, the Social Work/Social Welfare Committee, the Gerontology Committee, and Criminal Justice/Criminology Discussion Group. She is a member of the Capital District Library Council, Coordinated Collection Development Committee.

Selected publications include:

Brustman, Mary Jane and Deborah F. Bernnard. "Information Literacy for Social Workers: University at Albany Libraries Prepare MSW Students for Research and Practice.” Communications in Information Literacy 1(2), Fall 2007. Accessed March 18, 2008 from http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php/cil .

Brustman, Mary Jane, Section Editor. "Criminal Justice" in Resources for College Libraries. RR Bowker and Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006.

Brustman, Mary Jane and Barbara E. Kemp. "Finding Criminology and Criminal Justice Literature: A Comparison and Analysis of Selected Indexing and Abstracting Services." Journal of Criminal Justice Education 11(2): 371-382, Fall 2000.

Kemp, Barbara E. and Mary Jane Brustman. "Social Policy Research: A Comparison and Analysis of CD-ROM Resources." Social Work Research 21(2): 111-120, June 1997.

Comments and suggestions about Dewey Library resources and services are always welcome. Please contact Mary Jane at mbrustman@uamail.albany.edu or by phone at 442-3517.

Posted by Dewey Graduate Library Webmaster, Last Updated on August 28,2007