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University of Wisconsin - Madison |
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During the 2004 - 2005 academic year I will be based at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) during my Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship year. I will be collecting data for a comparative ethnography. The project is called, "The Academic Library as a Counter-Space in the Lives of African American and Latino Undergraduates". Counter-spaces are defined as "sites where a positive collegiate racial climate can be established and maintained"*. Counter-spaces help undergraduates with their academic and social integration leading to persistence and retention in college. Do African American and Latino undergraduates use the academic library as a counter-space? This is the question that I intend to address in my research as Ford Postdoctoral Fellow working with Professor Daniel Solorzano in the Department of Education at UCLA. Like Dr. Solorzano, my research uses critical race theory as part of my theoretical framework.
Journal Articles
Whitmire, E. (under review). African American undergraduates and the academic library.
Whitmire, E. (2004). The campus racial climate and undergraduates' perceptions of the academic library. portal: Libraries and the Academy (in press).
Whitmire, E. (2004). The relationship between undergraduates' epistemological reflection, reflective judgment and their information seeking behavior. Information Processing & Management, 40(1), 97-111.
Whitmire, E. (2003). Cultural diversity and undergraduates' academic library experiences. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29(3), 148-161.
Whitmire, E. (2003). Epistemological beliefs and the information-seeking behavior of undergraduates. Library & Information Science Research, 25(2), 127-142.
Whitmire, E. (2002). Academic library performance measures and undergraduates' library use and educational outcomes. Library & Information Science Research, 24(2), 107-128.
Whitmire, E. (2002). Disciplinary differences and undergraduates' information seeking behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(8), 631-638.
Whitmire, E. (2001). The relationship between undergraduates' background characteristics and college experiences and their academic library use. College & Research Libraries, 62(6), 528-540.
Whitmire, E. (2001). Factors influencing undergraduates' self-reported satisfaction with their information literacy skills. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 1(4), 409-420.
Whitmire, E. (2001). A longitudinal study of undergraduates' academic library experiences. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 27(5), 379-385.
Whitmire, E. (1999). Racial differences in the academic library experiences of undergraduates. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25(1), 33-37.
Whitmire, E. (1998). Development of critical thinking skills: An analysis of academic library experiences and other measures. College & Research Libraries, 59(3), 266-273.
Whitmire, E. (2001). From theory to practice: Out of graduate school and into an academic library residency. In R.V. Cogell & C. Gruwell (Eds.), Diversity in libraries: Academic residency programs (pp. 89-95). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Schreiber, M.N., Juedes, D.R., Norlin, E., Rhodes, G., & Whitmire, E. (2000). Diversity web sources in higher education. College & Research Libraries News, 61(8), 681-685.
Whitmire, E. (June 22, 2003). Invited panelist, Rerunning the numbers: Using existing data in practice and research. American Library Association, Committee on Research and Statistics, Toronto, Canada.
Whitmire, E. (May 18 - 21, 2003). An emerging model of faculty research productivity: The impact of academic library services and resources. Association for Institutional Research (AIR) 43rd Annual Forum Tampa, Florida, abstract accepted.
Whitmire, E. (plenary session - April 2-4, 2003). A model of undergraduates' academic library use and information seeking behavior. Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians (WAAL) Annual Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Whitmire, E. (April 10-13, 2003). What do faculty need? Academic library resources & services that increase research productivity. In Hugh A. Thompson (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Charlotte, North Carolina.
Whitmire, E. (invited lecture - January 23, 2003). Student research: An analysis of information seeking experiences. Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Whitmire, E. (keynote - April 11, 2002). Undergraduates' Information Seeking Behavior and Academic Library Use. Generation Y Comes to the Library...or Not program. Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Whitmire, E. (2002). What are undergraduates thinking? Implications for the Reference Interview. 8th Annual Reference Research Forum at the American Library Association (ALA) conference. Atlanta, GA. June 2002.
Whitmire, E. (2002). A Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Undergraduates' Epistemological Development and Their Information Seeking Behavior in Digital Environments. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia. May 21 - 26, 2002.
Whitmire, E. (2001). Measuring the Quality and Effectiveness of Academic Library Resources. Association for Institutional Research (AIR) 41st Annual Forum Long Beach, CA.
Whitmire, E. (2000). Interpreting Undergraduates' Information Seeking Behavior Through Epistemological Development Theories. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, pp. 126-132.
Whitmire, E. (1999). Undergraduates' information seeking behavior: The role of epistemological development theories and models. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, pp. 713-726.
Whitmire, E. (1997). The Campus Environment for African-American and White Students: Impact on Academic Library Experience. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 8th National Conference in Nashville, TN.
Whitmire, E. (1996). Undergraduate Students' Development of Critical Thinking Skills: An Institutional and Disciplinary Analysis and Comparison with Academic Library Use and Other Measures. Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Memphis, TN.
2002 - American Library Association (ALA) - Carroll Preston Baber Research Grant - "Faculty Research Productivity and Academic Library Resources and Services"
1999 - Yale University Library - Standing Committee on Professional Awareness (SCOPA) - "Developing the Senior Essay: Understanding the Undergraduate Research Process"
American Library Association
Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)
Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)
American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST)
Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
Blackwell North America/ACRL Student Paper Award. The paper, "The Campus Environment for African-American and White Students: Impact on Academic Library Experience", was selected to be presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries 8th National Conference in 1997 in Nashville, TN.
Librarian-in-Residence, Yale University, New Haven, CT (1997-1999)
Information Sources & Services (Spring 2004)
Seminar in Library & Information User Services (Spring 2003)
Information Use and Users (Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2003)
College and University Libraries (Fall 2002)
Reference and Information Services (Spring & Fall 2001, Spring &
Fall 2002, Fall 2003)
Seminar in Research Methods for Library and Information Studies (Spring
2002)
Information and Its Use in Cultural Context (Fall 2001)
Ph.D., University of Michigan, School of Education, Center for the Study
of Higher & Postsecondary Education
Dissertation: "The Influence of Academic Library Experiences on Undergraduates'
Critical Thinking During Three Years of College."
MLS, Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
B.A., Rutgers University, Rutgers College - New Brunswick, NJ