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Evelyn H. Daniel Professor School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email: daniel@ils.unc.edu |
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About Me
I arrived in Chapel Hill in June 1985 and spent my first five years here as Dean of the School. Prior to that I served as dean for five years at Syracuse University. I like being a faculty member better than being an administrator because of the opportunity to work closer with students and because there's greater variety in the job.
 | About Teaching. I have taught a variety of subjects at (or for in the case of distance education) the universities of Rhode Island, California at Chico, Kentucky, Illinois, Maryland, Washington, in addition to Syracuse and UNC. Most recently, I am enjoying teaching a management course for San Jose State University. My teaching focuses on management topics of one kind or another -- basic management, marketing, knowledge management, strategic planning, grant writing, information brokering, competitive intelligence, financial management. Two areas of information practice that I teach on a regular basis are management for information professionals and administration and instructional design for school libraries. I served as Coordinator of the School Library Program until this past year when new faculty hire Sandra Hughes-Hassell assumed the role. I still have a soft spot for school librarians. I am currently vice chair of the Chapel Hill (NC) Public Library Board of Trustees and have a fondness for public librarians as well. I'm enthusiastic about teaching and like to experiment, for example, with team teaching, distance learning, and the use of various technological tools. I also have taught about teaching in a master's course on user education and a seminar on teaching for doctoral students and faculty. Some of the web sites for courses I have taught are listed below. |
About Research. I've done a fair amount of writing on education matters and information management. In addition, I currently have several funded and unfunded research projects. One is a large collaborative and long-term project with the UNC Herbarium and the NC Botanical Garden. See Plant Information Center Project for more information about it. I had a grant to develop a distance education certificate program for post-MLS people seeking licensure as a school library media specialist (see School Library Media Coordinator Program. About Service. University service contributions in the past have been primarily in the area of information technology planning. With a colleague (Jerry Saye), I co-edited the ALISE Statistical Report and Database until 2005. Internationally, I served as a member of the United States organizing committee for the IFLA 2001 Conference held in Boston. I also led an effort to produce international library education standards..
| On the Personal Side. I have four children, two of whom live close by which is nice. I also have seven grandchildren; four live nearby and three live in Maine (my birthplace and home of my heart). I am interested in animal (and plant) behavior and am persuaded that animals enjoy (or suffer) the same emotions that humans do. I always have a number of pets -- currently two dogs/ and one cat. Another personal interest is linguistics. I have studied a little French, Latin, Greek. Russian, German and am currently working on Italian. I read a lot -- a wide variety of contemporary and natural history literature with other topics as people recommend them to me. I also enjoy a Friday night movie group; we tend to see lots of foreign films, documentaries, and the like. |  |
Some of the recent course syllabi for courses that I teach may be found at
the following spots:
Last update: Aug. 20, 2007
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