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Brooke Sheldon

Immediate Past Director,
2001-2004

E-mail: brookesheldon@comcast.net

Education

Brooke Sheldon is a graduate of Acadia University in Canada (B.A.), Simmons College in Boston (M.L.S.) and the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.). She also has an honorary D.C.L. (Doctor of Civil Law) from Acadia.

Biography

Dr. Sheldon has served in a wide range of roles within librarianship. After working as Special Services Librarian for the U.S. Air Force and for the Army, she worked for the Albuquerque Public Library as a Branch Librarian, the Santa Fe Public Library as Adult Services Librarian, and the New Mexico State Library as Head of Library Development. She was Associate Director of the Leadership Training Institute, U.S. Office of Education, and Head of Technical Services and Training, Alaska State Library. She was Professor and Dean of the School of Library and Information Studies, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, where she was also Acting Provost, 1979-80. More recently she served as Dean at the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 1991-1996. She is a former President of the American Library Association, and served as chair of its Committee on Accreditation.

Teaching Areas

Leadership, LIS Education, Foundations, and Communications.

Research Areas

Attributes of Leadership; Organizational Change.

Forthcoming Publications

"Margaret Chisholm" essay for the Dictionary of American Library Biography (in press).

Recent Publications

Sheldon, Brooke and Loriene Roy, eds. Library and Information Studies Education in the United States. Washington, D.C.: Mansell, 1998.

Woolls, Blanche and Brooke E. Sheldon. Delivering Lifelong Continuing Professional Education Across Space and Time / The Fourth World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Science Professions. Munich: Saur, 2001.