Cheryl Knott Malone

Associate Professor

Email: ckmalone@email.arizona.edu
Phone: 520-621-3565
Curriculum Vitae
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Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
MLS, University of Arizona, Graduate Library School
MA, University of Arizona, United States History
BA, University of Houston, Journalism

Biography

Associate Professor Cheryl Knott Malone has increased the profession’s understanding of information access and its barriers through her publications on the history of racially segregated public libraries and (in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Illinois) the contingent aspects of classification systems. Cheryl, who serves on the U.S. Depository Library Council, has worked with librarians at The University of Arizona to assess the viability of the virtual depository for federal government publications. With ten years of experience as a librarian -- mainly in reference, instruction, and selection -- she teaches online searching, information literacy instruction, government information, and organization of information. Cheryl and Anita Coleman collaborate on DLIST, the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, and co-edit the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

Teaching Areas

Organization of Information
Government Publications
Information Literacy Instruction
Online Searching
Library History
Libraries & Society
The Book as Information Technology

Research Areas

History of Public Libraries
Libraries and Society
Industry Classification

Selected Publications

(with Atifa Rawan and Laura J. Bender), “Assessing the Virtual Depository Program: The Arizona Experience.” Journal of Government Information 30 (2004): 710-726.

(with Fernando Elichirigoity), "Information as Commodity and Economic Sector: Its Emergence in the Discourse of Industrial Classification." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54 (April 2003): 512-520.

(with Carole L. Palmer), "Elaborate Isolation: Metastructures of Knowledge about Women." The Information Society 17 (2001): 179-194.

"Books for Black Children: Public Library Collections in Louisville and Nashville , 1915-1925." Library Quarterly 70 (April 2000): 179-200.

Notable Projects & Activities

Co-Editor, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2005-.
Co-Editor, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology (DLIST).
Member (appointed), Depository Library Council (advisory to the U.S. Public Printer), 2003-2006.