Kathleen (Kate) McDowell

Graduate School of Library and Information Science
501 E. Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61801

kmcdowel@uiuc.edu

Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, New College of USF, 1995; Masters of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, August, 1999.

town: Urbana, IL

Research Interests: Youth Services, Children's Literature, Distance Education

Work Experience: Four years experience as a Children's Librarian, Urbana Free Library, Urbana, IL Adjunct Faculty at GSLIS, 2000-2003, teaching Literature and Materials for Children, Literature and Materials for Young Adults.

Awards and Honors: American Library Association's Bound to Stay Bound Books Scholarship, 1997. (One of six nationally selected recipients) Herbert Goldhor Award for Public Librarianship from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, May 2000. Incomplete List of Teachers Rated Excellent by Their Students, Fall 2000.

Career Goals: I hope to become a professor of LIS in order to educate and inspire the next generation of librarians working with youth, contribute to understandings of effective youth services in the LIS literature and in professional practice, and to explore and expand the pedagogical effectiveness of distance education programs. Hobbies: Storytelling performance (voice and guitar), jewelry making, collage, spending time with my spouse Ben and our cat Jasper.