Carol Collier Kuhlthau (born December 2, 1937) is a retired American educator, researcher, and international speaker on learning in school libraries, information literacy, and information seeking behavior.

Biography

She was born in

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, U.S., Kuhlthau graduated from

Kean University Kean University () is a public university in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey, Union and Hillside, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Kean University was founded in 1855 in Newark, New Jersey, as th ...

in 1959, completing a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

Librarianship Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...

in 1974 at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, and a doctorate in Education in 1983. She was on the faculty of the Rutgers University Department Library and Information Science for more than 20 years and Professor Emeritus since 2006. Kuhlthau was the founder of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries.

Research

Introduced in 1991, Kuhlthau's model of the

Information Search Process In library and information science, the information search process (ISP) is a six-stage process of information seeking behavior. The ISP was first suggested by Carol Kuhlthau Carol Collier Kuhlthau (born December 2, 1937) is a retired American e ...

(ISP) describes feelings, thoughts and actions in six stages of information seeking. The model of the ISP introduced the holistic experience of information seeking from the individual’s perspective, stressed the important role of affect in information seeking and proposed an uncertainty principle as a conceptual framework for library and information service. Kuhlthau’s work is among the most highly cited of library and information science faculty and one of the conceptualizations most often used by information science researchers. The ISP model represents a watershed in the development of new strategies for the delivery of K-16 library and information skills.

Education

Kuhlthau received her B.S. from

in 1959, Master's in

Library Science Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...

(

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) from

in 1974 and her Doctorate in Education in 1983, also from

. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "The Library Research Process: Case Studies and Interventions with High School Seniors in Advanced Placement English Classes Using Kelly's Theory of Constructs." She held several teaching and library positions before joining the Rutgers faculty in 1985 where for twenty years she directed the school library specialization in the Masters in Library and Information Science degree program that is ranked first in the United States by '' U.S. News & World Report''. During her tenure at Rutgers she was promoted to Professor II and chaired the Library and Information Science Department and retired as Professor Emerita in 2006. She was the founding Director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) at Rutgers where she continues as senior advisor. Her book ''Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services'' is a classic text in library and information science in the United States and abroad. ''Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century'' (2007) 2nd Ed (2015), written with Leslie Maniotes and Ann Caspari, recommends learning environments where students gain deep understanding and also information literacy grounded in the Information Search Process. Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School (2012) written with Leslie Maniotes, PhD and Ann Caspari is a full description of the instructional design framework called Guided Inquiry Design a complete approach to inquiry based learning from a learning perspective.

Selected writings

* "Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School with Leslie Maniotes and Ann Caspari (2012) * ''Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century'' with Leslie Maniotes and Ann Caspari (2007) revised second edition (2015) * ''Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services'' (2004) * ''Teaching the Library Research Process'' (1994, 2004) * “Inside the Search Process: Information Seeking from the User’s Perspective”, ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' (1991)

Awards

American Society for Information Science and Technology The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the ''Journal of the Associ ...

(ASIST) Research in Information Science Award, 2005 *

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(ALISE) Award for Professional Contribution Library and Information Science Education, 2004 *

Library and Information Technology Association The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) was a division of the American Library Association (ALA), focusing on the intersections of libraries and information technology. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Chicago, LITA was diss ...

(LITA)

Frederick G. Kilgour Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6, 1914 – July 31, 2006) was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), an international computer library network and database. He was its pres ...

Research Award, 2002 *

Association of College and Research Libraries The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academi ...

(ACRL) Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award, 2000 *

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members a ...

(ALA)

Jesse Shera Jesse Hauk Shera (December 8, 1903 – March 8, 1982) was an American librarian and information scientist who pioneered the use of information technology in libraries and played a role in the expansion of its use in other areas throughout the ...

Award for Research, 1998 * American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Distinguished Service Award, 2000 * Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Award for Outstanding Contributions to the School Library Media Field through Publishing, and Teaching

References

External links

Guided Inquiry, Strategies for Teaching in the 21st Century

IASL 2009
keynote presentation)

reproduced from ''Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services'', retrieved December 3, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhlthau, Carol American educators Living people 1937 births Kean University alumni Rutgers University alumni