Current Courses

Spring 2008

Seminar in the History of Readers and Reading

Foundation of Library and Information Studies

 

 

Christine Pawley

Professor
School of Library and Information Studies


University of Wisconsin-Madison
4234 Helen C. White Hall
600 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53726

phone: (608) 263-2945
fax:  (608) 263-4849
email: cpawley@wisc.edu

Future Courses

Fall 2008

Information Agencies and their Environment

 

Christine Pawley is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, and Director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America.  Before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty in the fall of 2006, she spent six years on the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa, where she also served as Director of the Center for the Book for 2005-06. Prior to moving to Iowa in 2000 she spent a year as Visiting Fellow at the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia.  From 1998-99 she was Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and from 1996-98, Assistant Professor in the Information Management Department at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota.  A native of England, Pawley holds degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Surrey in the United Kingdom, and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received her Ph.D. in 1996.

Print Culture Research

Critical Perspectives on Library and Information Studies


History of Reading: Some Places to Start

 

Selected Awards

Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, State Historical Society of Iowa, 2002.

Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research, American Library Association Library Research Round Table, 1999.

Justin Winsor Essay Prize for Excellence in Research in Library History, American Library Association Library History Round Table, 1999.

"Blood and Thunder on the Bookmobile: American Public Libraries and the Construction of 'the Reader,'" in Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States, edited by Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007)

"Reading About Race: The Book Lovers Club of Des Moines, Iowa, 1925-1941" (The Annals of Iowa, (1), 2006: 35-59)

"Retrieving Readers: Library Experiences" (Introduction and guesst editor for special issue of The Library Quarterly, 77 (3), 2006: 379-387)

"A 'Bouncing Babe,' a 'Little Bastard:' Women, Print and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-1952," in Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)

"Unequal Legacies: Race and Multiculturalism in the LIS Curriculum." (The Library Quarterly, 76 (2) 2006.)

Libraries, Information, and Sustainability

Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America

Library History Round Table