Karen Snow
School of Information Studies
PhD Program Director
School of Information Studies
Karen Snow is a Professor and the Ph.D. Program Director in the School of Information Studies. She teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification, and metadata. Dr. Snow’s main areas of research interest are cataloging quality, ethics, and education. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she has published three books with Rowman & Littlefield, A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification (2017), A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings (2021), and A Practical Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification (2024). Dr. Snow co-authored the Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians (2017 and 2023 revision) and the Cataloguing Code of Ethics (2021). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4763-4695
Organization, access, and control of information resources,
Cataloging education,
Knowledge organization ethics,
Quality in cataloging,
Snow, K. (2024). A Practical Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Retrieved from A Practical Guide to Dewey Decimal Classification: Snow, Karen: 9781538127193: Amazon.com: Books.
Moulaison-Sandy, H., Pham, N., Snow, K., Dobreski, B. (2023). Terminology Preferences of the LGBTQ+ Community: A User Study. In: Sserwanga, I., Goulding, A., Moulaison-Sandy, H., Du, J., Soares, A., Hessami, V., & Frank, R. Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity. iConference 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (13972). Springer, Cham, 180–188. Retrieved from Terminology Preferences of the LGBTQ+ Community: A User Study | SpringerLink.
Evans, B., Liss, J., McCourry, M., Rathbun-Grubb, S., Shoemaker, B., Snow, K., & Yanos, A. (2023). Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians: Assessment of Community Use and Recommendations for the Future of the Document. Library Resources & Technical Services, 67(4), 114-123. Core Leadership Infrastructure Futures. American Library Association. Retrieved from Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians: Assessment of Community Use and Recommendations for the Future of the Document | Evans | Library Resources & Technical Services (ala.org).
Snow, K., Moulaison-Sandy, H., & Dobreski, B. (2023). LGBTQ+ Catalog Users: A Brief Survey. North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO), 9(1): Proceedings from North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization. International Society of Knowledge Organization. Open Journal Systems (OJS)/Public Knowledge Project (PKP), 78-88. Retrieved from LGBTQ+ Catalog Users: A Brief Survey | NASKO (washington.edu).
Chan, M., Daniels, J., Furger, S., Rasmussen, D., Shoemaker, E., & Snow, K. (2022). The Development and Future of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 60(8), 786–806. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2022.2134247.
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