MICHELYNN MCKNIGHT

Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science LEEP distance learning program, 2001-2003

Adjunct Faculty, University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences, 2002, 2004

Adjunct Instructor, University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, 1997-2002

Director, Health Sciences Library, Norman Regional Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma, 1983-2004

Adult Services Librarian, Shawnee Public Library (Branch of Pioneer Multi-County Library System), Shawnee, Oklahoma 1981-1983

SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Institute for Museum and Library Services2006 National Leadership Grant to identify how information professionals respond to information needs in community wide disasters (2 years, $166,285) Co-Investigator (Lisl Zach Investigator) 2006 – 2008

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Louisiana GoLocal (MEDLINEPlus portal), Project Coordinator (Melissa Fahrman, Project Director) 2006 - 2008

Best Research Award, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association and South Central Academic Libraries Consortium for "Critical care nurses' information behavior: a Grounded theory model from observation". 2003

Professional Recognition Award for Research, Hospital Libraries Section, Medical Library Association, 2001

Medical Informatics Course Fellow - Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Certificate, Spring, 2000.

South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium (SCAMeL) Research Grant recipient, Interlibrary Loan Availability of Nursing Journals in the SCAMeL Region, 1998

University of North Texas Doctoral Fellowship recipient (declined), 1998

Professional Recognition Award for Publication, Hospital Libraries Section, Medical Library Association, 1997

Professional Recognition Award for Leadership, Hospital Libraries Section, Medical Library Association, 1993

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CURRENT AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Ad hoc Referee for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2004-

Advisory Board, Eskind Biomedical Library Information Specialist in Context Project, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2004-2005

American Society for Information Science and Technology Awards and Honors Committee, 2005-

Beta Phi Mu Beta Zeta Chapter (LSU) Faculty Advisor, 2006-

Editorial Board, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries, 2004-

Editorial Board, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2000-

Louisiana State University Service Learning Faculty Advisory Council, 2004-2007

Louisiana State University Summer Reading Program Faculty Facilitator 2005-

Medical Library Association Board of Directors, 2002-2005

Medical Library Association Medical Library Education Section Representative to Section Council, 2005-2007

Medical Library Association Membership Committee, 2005-2008

Medical Library Association Professional Recruitment and Retention Committee, 2004-2006

Medical Library Association Scholarly Publishing Task Force, 2004-2007

Medical Library Association Thomson/MLA Doctoral Fellowship Jury, 2005-2006

National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library and Informatics Review Committee, 2001-2005

CURRENT TEACHING

Health Sciences Libraries, Science and Technology Resources, Information Services, Publication for Librarians

Medical Library Association Continuing Education Courses:

--Qualitative Evidence: Practical Ways to Gather Information Behavior and Attitude Data,

--Proving Your Worth: Using Professional Business, Marketing and Political Skills to Convince Non-Librarian Decision Makes of the Value of Your Essential Services

SELECTED RECENT INVITED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Medical reference for everyone, Louisiana Library Association, March 28, 2006, Lafayette, LA

Medical reference in Louisiana after Katrina, Alabama Health Libraries Association, November 15, 2005, Auburn, GA

Medical informatics and information science, American Society for Information Science and Technology, November 2, 2005, Charlotte, NC.

Our future is now: Recruiting and educating new health sciences librarians, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association annual meeting, October 25, 2005, Little Rock, AR

AHIP: What’s in it for me? and How do I get it done?, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association annual meeting, October 25, 2004, Houston, TX; October 24, 2005, Little Rock, AR.

Sharing our worth, Plenary Session, Midcontinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association, September 30, 2004, Kansas City, KS

Hospital library technology issues, in Thunder claps and lightning bolts symposium, sponsored by the Hospital Libraries Section, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 24, 2004.

Participant observation, in The Power of evidence symposium sponsored by the Research Section, Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 23, 2004, Washington, DC.

Working nurses' on-the-job information seeking and use, in Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: Needs, tools and use, pre-conference symposium, Medical Library Association, May 3, 2003, San Diego, CA.

Research in the round: Observations in context, in Reflective practice: Qualitative Research Symposium sponsored by the Research Section, Medical Library Association, May 22, 2002, Dallas, TX.

Celebrating our worth, keynote presentation for the 25^th anniversary of the Wisconsin Health Sciences Library Association, April 22, 2002, Wausau, WI.

Sharing our worth, Luncheon presentation for Hospital Library Interest Section at the Tri-Chapter (Midcontinental, Southern and South Central) Medical Library Association meeting, October 26, 2001 New Orleans, LA.

Ethnographic studies in libraries, in Evidence Based Librarianship Symposium sponsored by the Research Section, Medical Library Association, Vancouver, BC, May 7, 2000

SELECTED CONTRIBUTED PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS

“Choices in Chaos: Designing Research to Investigate Librarians’ Information Services Improvised During a Variety of Community-Wide Disasters and to Produce Evidence-Based Training Materials for Librarians”, with Lisl Zach, Transforming the Profession: Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 4, Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina, May 7, 2007

Information services in the chaos of disaster: Southern Louisiana medical reference in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, program sponsored by the Relevant Issues Section, Medical Library Association, Phoenix, AZ, May 23, 2006

On duty critical care nurses’ barriers to information acquisition: Implications for library services, accepted for presentation at the ICML9, Ninth World Congress on Information and Libraries, Salvador Brazil, September 23, 2005. (Paper not presented because of travel interruption caused by Hurricane Rita)

An Observational investigation of information seeking and use by nurses at work in a non-teaching community hospital: Implications for hospital librarians, Medical Library Education Section of the Medical Library Association, "Embarking on the Odyssey: New Perspectives", Orlando, FL, May 27, 2001.

SELECTED RECENT CONTRIBUTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Changing Access: Report on the Work of the Medical Library Association Scholarly Publishing Task Force, South Central Chapter, Medical Library Association, October 22, 2006, College Station, TX

Critical care nurses' information behavior: a Grounded theory model from observation, South Central Chapter, Medical Library Association, October 5, 2003, Shreveport, LA.

An Observational investigation of information seeking and use by nurses at work in a non-teaching community hospital: Implications for hospital librarians, Tri-chapter (Midcontinental, Southern, and South Central) Medical Library Association meeting, October 26, 2001, New Orleans, LA.

Beyond surveys: Methods for finding out why, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, October 17, 2000, El Paso, Texas

Interlibrary loan availability of nursing journals in the five state region, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, October 24, 1999, Norman, Oklahoma

Information seeking behavior of doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers: What we know from recent research, with Martha Peet, South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association, October 24, 1999, Norman, Oklahoma.

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BOOK, CHAPTERS AND DISSERTATION

“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

“Affective dimensions of critical care nurses’ informative interactions: Gentle Nurse Jekyll and Harried Nurse Hyde” chapter in Diane Nahl and Dania Bilal, The Emotional Information Environment [working title], ASIS&T, 2006, [in final revision]

An observational investigation of on-duty critical care nurses’ information behavior in a nonteaching community hospital. Dissertation Abstracts International, 65/03, 740A (UMI AAT 3126579), 2004

Mathematics Education Research: a Guide for the Research Mathematician, Curtis McKnight, Andy R. Magid T.J. Murphy and Michelynn McKnight, American Mathematical Society, 2000

"Information Resources" with Susan F. Anderson in The MLA Handbook of Health Sciences Library Management, edited by Ruth Holst, Medical Library Association, Neal Schuman Publishing, 2000, pages 213-235

RECENT PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH ARTICLES

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 Lizl Zach) Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2007; 2 (3): 43-58.

Grounded theory model of on-duty critical care nurses’ information behavior: The Patient-Chart Cycle of Informative Interactions, Journal of Documentation, 2006 [in final revision]

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

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

Librarians, informaticists, informationists, and other information professionals in biomedicine and the health sciences: What do they do? Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2005; 5(1): 13-29

Hospital nurses: No time to read on duty. Journal of Electronic Medical Resources in Libraries; 2004; 1(3):13-23

Ariel and hospital libraries: The Struggle with Firewalls for Internet Document Delivery, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2001; 1(4): 1-16

Beyond surveys: Finding out why, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2001; 1(2): 31-40

Health care providers' information seeking behavior: A Review of recent research, with Martha Peet, Medical Reference Services Quarterly 2000; 19 (2): 27-50 Summer

Interlibrary loan availability of nursing journals through DOCLINE and OCLC: A Five State Survey, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association July 2000; 88(3):254-255

SELECTED OTHER ARTICLES

Hospital library Increases space, staff and budget, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 2004; 29 (1): 19

Getting on board: Opportunities and obligations of being an MLA Board member, MLA News 2003; Number 353: 19

A Publishing odyssey: What medical librarian authors and journal purchasers need to know, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 2001; 26 (1): 10

Field Tips: Privacy and confidentiality, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1998; 22 (3):8 February

Field Tips: Get out of your library and learn what your customers need, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1997; 22 (2): 11, November

Field Tips: Which MEDLINE? The Search for good, fast, cheap access", National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1997; 22 (1): 12-13, August, reprinted in Check It Out, (Richard D. Haines Medical Library Newsletter, Scott & White Clinic, Temple, Texas) 1997: 5 (4): 1, 3 September

Field Tips: A Paper, a poster, a publication or what, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1997; 21 (4): 10, 16, April

Field Tips: Patient Education or Health Information Service: What's the difference?, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1997; 21(3):10, February. -- reprinted as "Patient Education or Health Information Service: What's the Difference?", HLABC Forum, Newsletter of the Health Libraries Association of British Columbia, April 1997; 21 (2):21

Nursing collections in DOCLINE and non-DOCLINE libraries: An Oklahoma Survey, with Barbara Patterson, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1997 21(3):16, 23, February.

Field Tips: Complaints: Reference questions in disguise, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1996 21(2):10-11, November.

Field Tips: Building a useful hospital library book collection, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1996 21(1):10-11, August.

Field Tips: New media and the hospital library, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1996 20(4):10-11, April. Reprinted in Webster Library News, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois, Summer 1996 and as "Computer Media and the Hospital Library", in A Major Report, 1996; 17 (2): 14-15.

Field Tips: Marketing the “Full Service' Library", National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1996 20(3):10, February.

Field Tips: Phone and fax, National Network -- Newsletter of the Hospital Libraries Section of the Medical Library Association 1995 20(2):10-11 November

Library services for Oklahoma nurses, with Barbara Patterson, Oklahoma Nurse, 1995; 40 (1): 13-14 January. Reprinted as "Library Services for Oklahoma Nurses", (with Barbara Patterson), Oklahoma Nurse, 1996; 41 (1): 17 January

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SELECTED REVIEWS

Foundations of Library and Information Science, by Richard E. Rubin, Journal of the Medical Library Association, Journal of the Medical Library Association, July 2005; 93(3): 405.

Demanding Medical Excellence, by Michael Millenson, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, April 2001; 89 (2): 237-238

Ethnography in Nursing Research by Janice M. Roper and Jill Shapira, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, 2001; 1(2): 107-108

Helicobacter, with Philip C. Bird, MD,JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), July 1, 1998; 280 (1): 100

Mind/Body Medicine: A Journal of Clinical Behavioral Medicine, with Bruce Pickens, Ph. D, JAMA, (Journal of the American Medical Association) December 3, 1997; 278 (21):1794-1795

The New Woman Manager: 50 Fast and Savvy Solutions for Executive Excellence by Sharon Lamhut Willen, Library Journal July 1993, page 111

In Vitro Fertilization Clinics: A North American Directory of Programs and Services by Mary Partridge-Brown, Library Journal, September 1, 1993, page 174

Health Reference Center on InfoTrac. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association October 1993; 81 (4):460-461

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Association for Library and Information Science Education

American Medical Informatics Association

American Society for Information Science and Technology

Beta Phi Mu; Mu Phi Epsilon

Health Sciences Library Association of Louisiana

Louisiana Library Association

Medical Library Association

Special Library Association