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Timothy J. Dickey

Timothy J. Dickey, a 2021 ASIS&T Distinguished Member and winner of the 2022 ALA-RUSA Margaret E. Monroe Award for Library Adult Services, is a librarian and library science educator, currently serving as Adult Services Librarian with the Columbus (OH) Metropolitan Library. Timothy also has many years' experience creating and delivering courses both online and in person with a current repertoire of courses in Library automation, Reference, Cataloging, Research methods, and Music librarianship, for Kent State University, the University of Washington iSchool, the Catholic University of America, and San Jose State University. Prior to that he assisted Dr. Lynn Connaway at the OCLC Office of Research, with work in data mining, user studies, and an IMLS grant project evaluating virtual reference services. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University, and the M.L.I.S. from Kent State University. His professional publications have appeared in JASIS&T, Library Resources & Technical Services, Information Technology and Libraries, Library & Information Science Research, the ASIS&T Bulletin, Libri, College & Research Libraries, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and Cambridge’s Early Music History; he has presented research at the ALA Annual Conference, the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, ALISE, the Charleston Conference, the Library Research Seminar, and the University of Wisconsin Library History Seminar. Dr. Dickey's book Library Dementia Services: How to Meet the Needs of the Alzheimer Community was published by Emerald in 2020.
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On Being a Research-informed Information Practitioner

by Timothy J. Dickey July 23, 2024 0

Our 21st-century global society needs research-informed information professionals of all stripes more than ever. Librarians serve our communities more vitally t... Read more.