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:

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:

Awards

Fulbright Grant, Vienna, Austria for research at the Austrian National Library and study at the University of Vienna [10]

References

  1. ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/schedule/index.cfm?a1=subject_details&subject=L%26I%20SCI&strm=1084
  2. ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/directory/faculty/walker.htm
  3. ↑ http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/presentation/private_libraries_of_the_enlightenment/
  4. ↑ http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/conference/presentation/private_libraries_of_the_enlightenment/
  5. ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/directory/faculty/walker.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.mercuriuswalker.com/index.php?p=1_6_Vita
  7. ↑ https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/150/browse?order=ASC&rpp=20&sort_by=1&etal=-1&offset=4882&type=title
  8. ↑ Paris, Marion, Surveying the Library Landscape, by Thomas D. Walker. Review. The Library Quarterly 67/4 (October 1997): 408-410.
  9. ↑ http://www.lis.illinois.edu/programs/phd/dissertations.html
  10. ↑ http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/people/profiles/twalker.cfm
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