Thomas D. Walker
Thomas D. Walker (1956- ) is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the School of Information Studies. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in information science, library management, public services in libraries, and library architecture.[1] His research interests include Research Methods, Indexing and Abstracting, Information Resources and Services and Music Bibliography.[2] He is widely published and has edited issues of Library Trends, a leading scholarly journal in the field of library and information science, and currently edits a wiki about library architecture (Celsus: A Library Architecture Resource) and a related news blog, The Celsus Review: Advances in Library Building and Renovation.
Career
Thomas D. Walker has been a researcher and university faculty member since 1992. He has served as Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi and as Associate Dean and Interim Dean at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.[3] He currently is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he has developed research interests in several areas, including the history of libraries and scholarly communication.
Education
Professor Walker graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with degrees in Musicology and Piano Performance. He continued his education at Northwestern University where he earned a graduate degree in Musicology. He earned a second graduate degree from the University of Chicago in Library and Information Science. Thomas Walker earned his PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992.[4]
Professional Memberships
Professor Walker has belong to many professional organizations throughout his career. Many of which he was elected or volunteered for leadership positions. His past and current memberships include:
- American Library Association
- American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Association of Library and Information Science Educators
- Special Libraries Association
- Mississippi Library Association
- Wisconsin Library Association
- International Society for Knowledge Organization
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- Beta Phi Mu [5]
Publications
Walker has over 100 publications, including book chapters, a book, and articles in leading scholarly journals that include The Library Quarterly, Libraries and Culture, the Journal of Library and Information Science Research, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, among others.[6]
His books include:
- Walker, T. D. (1996). Surveying the library landscape: The inspection visits of the University of Illinois Library School. Champaign, Ill: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[7] [8]
- Walker, T. D. (1992). An eighteenth-century library census Adalbert Blumenschein's Beschreibung verschiedener Bibliotheken in Europa. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. [9]
Awards
- 1993: Beta Phi Mu, Alpha Chapter (honorary society for Library and Information Science).
- 1992: Berner-Nash Memorial Dissertation Award, University of Illinois.
- 1990: University of Illinois, Graduate College Dissertation Research Grant for research at libraries and archives in and around Vienna, Austria.
- 1989-1990: Josie B. Houchens Fellowship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.
- 1987-1989: Graduate Assistantship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.
- 1984-1986: Full Scholarship, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago 1981-1982.
Fulbright Grant, Vienna, Austria for research at the Austrian National Library and study at the University of Vienna [10]
References
- ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/schedule/index.cfm?a1=subject_details&subject=L%26I%20SCI&strm=1084
- ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/directory/faculty/walker.htm
- ↑ http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/presentation/private_libraries_of_the_enlightenment/
- ↑ http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/presentation/private_libraries_of_the_enlightenment/
- ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/directory/faculty/walker.htm
- ↑ http://www.mercuriuswalker.com/index.php?p=1_6_Vita
- ↑ https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/150/browse?order=ASC&rpp=20&sort_by=1&etal=-1&offset=4882&type=title
- ↑ Paris, Marion, Surveying the Library Landscape, by Thomas D. Walker. Review. The Library Quarterly 67/4 (October 1997): 408-410.
- ↑ http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/dissertations.html
- ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/twalker.cfm