Karen Brown
School of Information Studies
Professor Emerita
School of Information Studies
Karen Brown is a professor at Dominican University (River Forest, Illinois) in the School of Information Studies and teaches in the areas of assessment, collection management, foundations of the profession, and literacy and learning. She is the recipient of the University's 2002 Follett Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2005 Library Administration and Management Association's Outstanding Researchers Award (with Kate Marek). She has held positions focusing on library administration, collection development, reference, and instruction at the University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Columbia University, and Bard College. She holds a PhD in media studies from New York University and master's degrees in library science and adult education from the University of Wisconsin.
Assessment and evidence-based planning, Professional development practices
Media ecology
Brown, K., Craig, A., & Hinchliffe, L. (2022). Building Collective Capacity for Assessment and Advocacy: A Model for Academic Library Consortia. Library Assessment Conference Proceedings.
Hinchcliffe, L. & Brown, K. (2021). The Collective: Assessing a Statewide Training Program on Library Impact. Library Assessment Conference Proceedings.
Brown, K. (2021). Count on Libraries: Promoting a Fair, Accurate, and Complete 2020 Census Count. Library and Book Trade Almanac. Information Today.
Ackerman, E. & Brown, K. (2019). Keeping Up With . . . 2020 Census. Association of College and Research Libraries/American Library Association. Retrieved from Keeping Up With... 2020 Census | Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) (ala.org).
Verbeke, M., Falk, J., Brown, K., & Meier, D. (2019). A Study of Rural Librarian’s Self-Efficacy in Facilitating and Developing Adult Science Programs. The Library Quarterly. 89(2). Retrieved from A Study of Rural Librarians’ Self-Efficacy in Facilitating and Developing Adult Science Programs | The Library Quarterly: Vol 89, No 2 (uchicago.edu).
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