Contributors
- Contributors
Anne M. Fields is an information services librarian and collection manager for education and an assistant professor at the Education, Human Ecology, Psychology & Social Work Library, Ohio State University in Columbus. She holds an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College, a master’s degree in library science from the University of Iowa, and a master’s and doctorate in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include the relationship between gender and information literacy, libraries and disciplinarity, and Edith Wharton.
Tschera Harkness Connell is the head of the Access, Support and Accounting Department for the Ohio State University Libraries in Columbus. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Mackinac College and an MSLS and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her specialty area of librarianship is knowledge organization, and her research focuses on users, information systems, and the interface between them. She is currently investigating the impact of expanded access to and use of e-journals at Ohio State in order to better understand scholars’ resource and service needs and the development of metadata standards for digital collections.
Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel is a philosophy/history and art/design bibliographer, reference librarian, and associate professor of library science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Pennsylvania State University and an MLS and PhD in European history from Kent State University. His articles and reviews have appeared in various library and interdisciplinary journals, and he is the author of Annales Historiography and Theory: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1994). He also serves as a bibliographer for the semiannual publication French Historical Studies. His research interests focus on historiography and the philosophy of history, the history of disciplines, bibliometrics, and intellectual and cultural history.
Charles Johanningsmeier is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His educational background includes an undergraduate degree from Haverford College and a master’s degree in English and a doctorate in English and American [End Page 318] studies from Indiana University. He is the author of Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates, 1860–1900 (Cambridge University Press) as well as a number of articles on how readers and authors interacted with periodicals in late-nineteenth-century America. He is currently the co–book review editor for SHARP News, published by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Current research involves determining who was reading nineteenth-century American regionalist fiction and where they were doing so, including the role of libraries in making such materials available to readers.
