Florida State University - College of Information
Dr. Kathleen Burnett
Associate Professor
Phone: 850-644-8124
Fax: 850-644-6253
Email: burnett@ci.fsu.edu
Personal Homepage: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~kburnett
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Dr. Kathleen Burnett is an Associate Professor and former Associate Dean (1997-2004) at the Florida State University College of Information, where she has taught and conducted research since 1996. She earned her B.A. (1978) in German Literature, with a minor in Philosophy, from the University of California, San Diego and her M.L.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1989) in Library and Information Studies with a specialization in the History of Printing and Publishing from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at Rutgers University the University of California, Berkeley, and San Jose State University. She has worked as a rare books cataloger, women's studies librarian, children's librarian, reference librarian, and briefly, as a business librarian. She teaches courses in intellectual access, theory development and use, information science, and web development. She has been principal and co-principal investigator on several grants to improve LIS education, including two grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that funded a multi-institutional effort, Project Athena. In her research, she strives to develop theoretical and empirical foundations for understanding the implications of gender and power in the interweaving of the technical and social that shape information access and exchange and at the beginning of the 21st century.


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