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. c.v., Arizona style
Research	Knowledge may be power but access is the foundation for acquiring and using knowledge. Consequently, my research focuses on information access. 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 might be considered to focus on physical access to information, my second area of interest focuses more on intellectual access. This line of inquiry includes systems such as economic classification, social tagging, and indexing of electronic resources. And I am beginning new work on the print culture of the environmental movement, which will help me learn more about what happens when books such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring give people comprehensible access to scientific research.
Teaching	In addition to chairing four dissertation committees, I teach the following courses at UA:  IRLS 524 Information Sources and Services | IRLS 532 Online Searching | IRLS 560 Information Resource Development | IRLS 572 Government Information | IRLS 585 Information Literacy Instruction
	I'm twittering government  information at  http://twitter.com/ckmalone .
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