Contributors
- Contributors
Diane L. Barlow is associate dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. She holds a master's degree and a doctorate in library science from the University of Maryland. Barlow's research interests include the education of information professionals, the history of librarianship, and science information for children and young adults.
Crystal Fulton is a faculty member of the School of Information and Library Studies at University College Dublin, where she is coordinator of the school's Information Behaviour Research Group and director of the Networking for Leisure and Life & Information Behaviour Research in Everyday Experience (LIBREE) research initiatives. Fulton holds a master of arts as well as a master's degree and doctorate in library and information science from the University of Western Ontario. Her current research examines the information worlds of individuals and groups engaged in leisure activities and the connections among a chosen hobby, community development, information literacy, and social inclusion.
Trudi Bellardo Hahn, Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, is a past executive director of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. She served as the head of user education services in the University of Maryland Libraries for eight years. Hahn holds a master's degree in library science from the University of Kentucky and a doctorate from Drexel University. She has coauthored a history of online information services and published articles on preserving the scholarly record.
Kathryn La Barre is assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She serves as president of the International Society for Knowledge Organization's Canada/United States chapter. Her research interests are in information organization and access systems and structures, interactions between theoretical approaches and current practices in information organization and access in digital environments, and historical and theoretical foundations of library and information [End Page 260] science. La Barre holds a master's degree in library science and a doctorate in information science from Indiana University.
Linda C. Smith, professor and associate dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the president of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Her doctorate in information studies is from Syracuse University; she also holds master's degrees in library science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and in information and computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Smith's research interests are in the history of library and information science education and the history of information science.
Carol Tenopir is Chancellor's Professor and Director of Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interests are in the information industry, online reference services, information access and retrieval, indexing and abstracting, electronic journals, and scholarly communication. Tenopir holds a doctorate in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a master of science in library science from California State University, Fullerton.
Robert V. Williams is distinguished professor emeritus in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina, where he has taught courses in government information sources, business information sources, records management, special libraries and information centers, and research methods. His research interests are information policy, government information systems, information infrastructures, and the history of information organizations. Williams's doctorate in library and information studies is from the University of Wisconsin–Madison; he holds master's degrees in Latin American history from New York University and in library and information science from Florida State University. [End Page 261]
