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City: Danville, KY
Telephone:
  1-859-885-3523
Extension: 223

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Administration and Management
  • Continuing Education in LIS
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Information Policy
  • Information and Society / Culture
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Public Libraries
  • Young Adult Services

Research Interests

  • Administration and Management
  • Continuing Education in LIS
  • Information Literacy and Instruction
  • Information Policy
  • Information and Society / Culture
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Public Libraries
  • Young Adult Services

Dr. Ron Critchfield

Lecturer

Dr. Critchfield brings an interesting collection of professional experience to the classroom. At various times in his professional life, Critchfield served as an assistant director of an academic library, a website coordinator, a college professor (both in the traditional classroom and online), and as a statewide library consultant for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Dr. Critchfield is currently the director of the Jessamine County Public Library (www.jesspublib.org) in Nicholasville, KY.

Dr. Critchfield is especially interested in the focus on information literacy by both academic and public libraries. In addition to this, Critchfield ponders the present and future of the public library and its effective management at the present to bring about future viability/vitality.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Ph.D. (Information Science) Nova Southeastern University (2005)
  • MSLS (Library and Information Science) University of Kentucky (1995)
  • MTS (Theological Studies) Duke University (1994)
  • BA (Religion/History) Centre College (1992)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Executive Director, Jessamine County Public Library, Nicholasville, KY (11/07 to present)
  • Statewide Consultant, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY (3/06 to 11/07)
  • Assistant Professor of Theology, Warner Southern College (2000-2006)
  • Assistant Director of the Library, Warner Southern College (1996-2000)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Critchfield, R. (2005). The development of an information literacy indicator for incoming college freshmen. Ph.D. dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, United States — Florida. Retrieved June 27, 2008, Dissertations & Theses: Full Text database. (Publication No. AAT 3205997).
  • Critchfield, R. (2000). [Review of High tech, high touch: technology and our search for meaning]. Journal of Government Information, 27(4), 495-498.
  • Critchfield, R. (2000). [Review of Digital mythologies: the hidden complexities of the Internet]. Journal of Government Information, 27(6), 889-892.

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