Michelynn McKnight

Email Address: mmck@lsu.edu                                                                                  Full Curriculum Vitae

• Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Information Science from University of North Texas
• MS in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois
• MM from University of Illinois
• BA from Western Illinois University

Classes:

• LIS 7002    Information Services
• LIS 7202    Science and Technology Resources
• LIS 7404    Health Sciences Information Centers
• LIS 7906    Field Experience in Health Sciences Libraries
• LIS 7911 Special Topic: Publication for Librarians

Research Interests:

• Health Care Providers' Information Seeking Behavior
• Information Services During Community-Wide Disasters

Representative Publications

2008:  Not Just Another Pretty Interface: Expert Information Searching and Retrieval. Journal 
of Hospital Librarianship 2008; 8 (2): 155-174.

2007:  Choices in Chaos: Designing Research into Librarians’ Information Services Improvised 
During a Variety of Community-Wide Disasters in order to Produce Evidence-Based Training Materials 
for Librarians. (With Lisl Zach) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2007; 2 (3): 59-75.

2007:  Grounded Theory Model of On-duty Critical Care Nurses’ Information Behavior: 
The Patient-Chart Cycle of Informative Interactions, Journal of Documentation, 
2007, 63 (1): 57-73

2007:  “Affective Dimensions of Critical Care Nurses’ Informative Interactions: Gentle Nurse Jekyll 
and Harried Nurse Hyde” chapter in Diane Nahl and Dania Bilal (eds), Information and Emotion: 
The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory, Medford, NJ: 
Information Today, 2007, pages 121-134.

2006:  Health sciences librarians’ reference services during a disaster: More than collection 
protection.Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 25 (3):1-12

2006:  The Information seeking of on duty critical care nurses: Evidence from participant observation 
and in context interviews”, Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(2): 145-151.

Other Activities and Awards

• National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee
• Medical Library Association Board of Directors
• Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory Medical Informatics Fellow
• Medical Library Association Scholarly Publishing Task Force