Cheryl Knott Malone Associate Professor Email: ckmalone@email.arizona.edu Phone: 520-621-3565 Homepage

Education

• PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and
• PhD, University of Texas, 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. Her newest research explores the history of the environmental movement's print culture. With ten years of experience as a librarian -- mainly in reference, instruction, and selection -- she teaches online searching, information literacy instruction, government information, and information resources and services.

Teaching Areas

• Information Resources and Services
• Government Publications
• Information Literacy Instruction
• Online Searching

Research Areas

• History of Public Libraries
• Print Culture History
• Classification and Categorization of Digital Information

Selected Publications

Unannounced and Unexpected: The Desegregation of Houston Public Library." Library Trends 55 (2007): 665-674.

Electronic Access to Women's Diaries and Letters: An Analysis of Keyword vs. Subject Searching. In International Conference on Future of Knowledge Organization in the Networked Environment, 3-5 September 2007, pp. 237-254. Edited by K.S. Raghavan. Bangalore, India: Indian Statistical Institute, 2007.

(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 Service

Co-Editor, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2005-2008.
Member (appointed), Depository Library Council, (advisory to the U.S. Public Printer), 2003-2006.