Cavan McCarthy

Email Address: mccarthy@lsu.edu                                                                                  Full Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• Ph.D., Loughborough University, England
• MLS, State University of New York, Albany
• A.L.A (Associate of the Library Association),
  Leeds Metropolitan University, England
• B.A., Languages, Leeds University, England

Classes:

• LIS 7008    Information Technologies
• LIS 7410    Digital Libraries
• LIS 7910    Internet Information Retrieval
• LIS 7911    International Library & Information Systems

Research Interests:

• Digital Libraries
• Digital Divide
• International Library and Information Science

Representative Publications

2006: McCarthy, C. Promoting the culture and development of regional communities with digital libraries. In: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology, Marshall, S., Taylor, W. & Yu, X., eds. Hershey, PA, Idea Group Reference. pp. 593-597.

2006: McCarthy, C. Digital library structure and software. In: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology, Marshall, S., Taylor, W. & Yu, X., eds. Hershey, PA, Idea Group Reference. pp. 193-198.

2004: McCarthy, C. Digital Libraries. In: The Internet Encyclopedia, Bidgol, H., ed. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons. Vol. 1, A-F, pp. 505-525.

2003: McCarthy, C. & Cunha, M. B. "Digital library development in Brazil." OCLC Systems and Services Journal, 19(3), 114-119.

Other Activities and Awards

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, London; entitled to use the postnominal letters FCLIP
• 2005 Summer Research Grant, Council on Research, Louisiana State University; research into digital inclusion in Recife, Brazil
• Created "Hurricane Katrina Information Resources" webpage during the 2005 emergency