David Wildon Carr

School of Information and Library Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#3360, 100 Manning Hall
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360
carr@ils.unc.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Rutgers - The State University, in Library and Information Studies, 1979. Dissertation: The agent and the learner: A study of critical incidents and contexts in assisted adult library learning. Dissertation Chairman: Ernest R. DeProspo, Jr. [352 leaves]

M.L.S., Rutgers - The State University, in Library Service, 1973.

M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University, in Psychology and Education of the Gifted and Teaching of English in Secondary Schools, 1968.

B.A., Drew University, in English Literature, 1967.

 

Experience

Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1998- .

Chair, Library and Information Studies Department and Director of the Master of Library Service Program, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, May 1995-May 1998.

Associate Professor, Library and Information Studies Department, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 1986-1998.

Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, 1985-1986.

Visiting Researcher, Education Department, American Museum of Natural History, 1984.

Associate Professor of Adult Education, Department of Educational Administration, Supervision, and Adult Education, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, 1982-1986.

Associate Professor, Bureau of Educational Research and Development, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, 1980-1985.

Bibliographer for Professional Schools, Archibald Stevens Alexander Library, Rutgers University, 1976-1980. Librarian III (Assistant Professor), 1976-1979; Librarian II (Associate Professor with tenure), 1979- .

Coadjutant Faculty Member, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Rutgers University, 1975-1980.

Reference Librarian, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Douglass College, 1973 -1976. Librarian III (Assistant Professor).

Teacher of Humanities, East Brunswick, N.J., Public Schools, 1971-1973.

Teacher of English, Princeton, N.J., Public Schools, 1968-1971.

 

Selected Articles, Book Chapters, Published Addresses

Alliance against compromise. Museum News. Forthcoming.

The need for the museum. Museum News. 78(2):31-32, 34-35, 56-57, March-April, 1999. [Keynote address, The Museum as a Place of Learning, Cornell University, 1998.]

Tensions of teaching. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, Summer 1998.

We are stronger than we think. New Jersey Libraries 31(4):4-6, Fall 1997.

Themes of memory. The Council of American Jewish Museums Newsletter 6(1):1, 9-13, June 1997.

Rex’s Lending Center and the information life of the child at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. In Kay E. Vandergrift, ed., Ways of Knowing: Literature and the Intellectual Life of Children. (pp. 89-118). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Cultural institutions and lifelong learning: Reading the tracks. In Melissa Buckingham, ed., The Library as a Resource for the Adult New Reader. (pp. 15-22). New York: The New York Public Library, 1996.

The meanings of us: Notes on the profession and the person. New Jersey Libraries 29(4):4-7, Fall 1996.

The personal past in public space. Journal of Museum Education 20(2):3-5, Spring/Summer 1995. [Selected for republication in Meeting the Demands of the Educational Mission, Museum Education Roundtable, forthcoming.]

Cultural institutions as structures for cognitive change. In Lorraine Cavaliere and Angela Sgroi, eds., Learning for Personal Development. New Directions in Continuing Education. (pp. 21-35). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Teaching is the most difficult task. ALISE Alert 2(2):4-5, 8, February-March 1994.

Thinking for the future museum. Hand to Hand 7(3):1, 3-4, 7-8, Fall 1993.

Minds in museums: The cognitive management of cultural institutions. Teachers College Record 93(1):6-27, Fall 1991.

Living on one’s own horizon: Cultural institutions, school libraries, and lifelong learning. School Library Media Quarterly 19(4):217-222, Summer 1991. [Selected for recognition by Library Instruction Round Table, American Library Association, 1991.]

 

Selected Consulting

American Museum of Natural History, Aspen Institute, Brooklyn Museum, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Jewish Museum, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Interfaith Hospitality Networks for the Homeless, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Old Sturbridge Village, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Strong Museum, W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

 

Recognitions

Certificate of Appreciation. Museum Education Roundtable, Cleveland, Ohio, April 26, 1999.

Faculty Fellow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Teaching Excellence Center, 1995-96.

Teaching Excellence Award, Association for Library and Information Science Education, 1994.

Associate in Applied Science (Honoris causa), Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey, 1994.

 

Memberships

American Association of Museums

American Educational Research Association

Association for Library and Information Science Education