Karen Sobel has been an Assistant Professor and Reference and Instruction Librarian at the Auraria Library, which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver and the Community College of Denver, since January 2008. She is currently co-teaching a BlackBoard-based online library skills course open to all students at the University of Colorado Denver. She holds a Master of Science in Library Science and a Master of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her interests include instruction for first-year college students, development of online educational materials, and assessment of learning during library instruction.