Kathleen Carlisle Fountain

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Head of Collection Development
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Departments:
kfountain@vancouver.wsu.edu
Phone: (360) 546-9694
Fax: (360) 546-9039
Located in Library (VLIB) 160F
Support Staff: Molly Zalman Winters

Research

  • Collection Development and Assessment
  • Streaming Media and Copyright
  • Critical information literacy
  • Political Interest Groups
  • Diversity in Higher Education

Recent Publications

Winner of the 2013 LPSS Marta Lange/CQ Press Award (ALA Press Release)

Against the Grain's Star of the Week (June 7, 2012)

Fountain, Kathleen Carlisle. "Critical Information Literacy Beyond the University: Lessons from Service in a Women's Health Interest Group." Behavioral and Social Sciences Librarian, 32(1): 24-45.

Fountain, Kathleen Carlisle. 2012. “Managing Expectations and Obligations: The Librarian’s Role in Streaming Media for Online Education” in Something’s Gotta Give!: Charleston Conference Proceedings 2011, Purdue University Press, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/charleston/2011/TechIssues/12/.

Fountain, Kathleen Carlisle, and Linda Frederiksen. 2010. “Just Passing Through: Patron-Initiated Purchasing Programs in Northwest Academic Libraries.” Collection Management 35 (July): 185-195.

Education

  • Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians, August 2012
  • M.S.L.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
  • B.A. Pacific Lutheran University in Political Science and History, 1996