Cheryl Knott Malone Associate Professor School of Information Resources & Library Science 1515 E. First St. University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85719 +1 (520) 621-3957 (voice) +1 (520) 621-3279 (fax) ckmalone at u.arizona.edu (email)
About	With more than a decade of teaching, research, and service since earning my doctorate in library and information science at the University of Texas at Austin, I have extensive experience working successfully with others and individually on a variety of initiatives. I have taught at three universities and at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels, providing instruction in core courses such as the organization of information and foundations of library and information services and developing courses new to the curriculum such as Instruction and Assistance Systems (at the University of Illinois) and Online Searching (at the University of Arizona). I am adept at synchronous and asynchronous Web-based course delivery having used three different learning management systems including LEEP, WebCT, and D2L. My research has appeared in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Libraries & Culture, Library Quarterly, The Information Society, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, and other venues. Additionally, I serve as the co-editor of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science and as an editor of dLIST, the Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu . CV , Arizona style
Research	My research centers on two key interests under the broad category of information access. First, I research and write about the history of library services for African Americans, an interest begun with my dissertation on the founding of three racially segregated public libraries in the South. While this area of interest might be considered to focus on physical access to information, my second area of interest focuses more on intellectual access. This line of inquiry began with a look at economic classification, which, unlike library classification, is designed to aggregate data rather than collocate works. Intrigued by what we in library and information science can learn by considering how people outside our field organize information, I became interested in the phenomenon of social tagging. Studying the tags that amateurs use provides insight into the vagaries of professional tagging, that is, indexing in commercial databases, such as those I identified in two essays on retrieving electronic diary entries that mentioned or discussed libraries and magazines. Knowledge may be power but access is the foundation for acquiring and using knowledge.
Teaching	In addition to chairing four dissertation committees, I have taught the following courses at UA: IRLS 515 Organization of Information | IRLS 524 Information Sources and Services | IRLS 532 Online Searching | IRLS 560 Information Resource Development | IRLS 572 Government Information | IRLS 585 Information Literacy Instruction | IRLS 588 Digital Divide | IRLS 688 Trends and Issues in E-learning | IRLS 688 Competitive Intelligence and Government Regulation
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