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City: Lafayette, LA

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Descriptive Cataloguing / AACR
  • Distance Education in LIS
  • Indexing and Abstracting
  • LIS Education and Programs
  • Libraries and Society / Culture
  • Special Collections / Rare Books

Research Interests

  • Indexing and Abstracting
  • Newbery and Caldecott Awards
  • Job Satisfaction in Libraries

Denise Goetting

Lecturer

Denise Goetting currently serves as Associate Professor of Library Science and Head of Cataloging at Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In her career she has held many different library positions in different types of libraries. Some of the types of libraries include government, medical, public, academic, and special. She has worked as a consultant to hospital libraries and as an independent information broker. Before her current position at Dupré Library, she was the Director of the Instructional Materials Center in the Department of Education at the University of Louisiana.

Ms. Goetting is the lead author on a reference work entitled Newbery and Caldecott Awards: a Subject Index, which is a cumulative index to the topics and themes found in all the award-winning Newbery and Caldecott titles through 2003. She has several publications published or in progress covering topics such as attitudes and job satisfaction in libraries, topics in Newbery Award books as indicators of social trends, and an annotated bibliography of Cajun cookbooks. She regularly presents at state and national conferences.

Courses Taught

Education

  • M.L.S. (Library Science) Louisiana State University (1969)
  • B.A. (English Education) University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1967)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Adjunct Instructor of Library Science, Library and Information Services, University of Maine at Augusta (2005-present)
  • Adjunct Instructor of Library Science, Library Technician Certificate and Degree Program, Pueblo (CO) Community College (2004-2005)
  • Associate Professor of Library Science & Head of Cataloging, Edith Garland Dupré Library, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2001-present)
  • Adjunct Instructor of Library Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2001-present)
  • Instructor of Library Science, Director of the Instructional Materials Center & Coordinator of Library Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1996-2000)
  • Head of Reference and Adult Services, Lafayette Public Library, Lafayette, LA (1990-1996)
  • Director of the Health Science Library, University Medical Center, Lafayette, LA (1983-1984)
  • Director of the Lafayette Area Medical Library Consortium, Lafayette Charity Hospital, Lafayette, LA (1975-1978)
  • Assistant Recorder of Documents, Louisiana Secretary of State, Baton Rouge, LA (1973-1975)
  • Special Collections Development Librarian, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Baton Rouge, LA (1972-1973)
  • Cataloger, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Baton Rouge, LA (1969-1971)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

For other publications and presentations, see Curriculum Vitae PDF above.

  • Goetting, D., & Miguez, B. (2007). From Cinderella to Ella Enchanted: Changing perspectives of females in children's literature with a focus on Newbery award books. (Article in progress.)
  • Goetting, D., Richard, S., Curry, S., & Miguez, B. (2007). First-time book publishing: Negotiating the perils and pitfalls. (Article accepted by Technical Services Quarterly for publication in vol. 25, no. 2, spring 2007.)
  • Goetting, D., & Miguez, B. (2006). A quest to explain the extreme realism in Newbery books. Journal of Children's Literature, 32(1), 51-55.
  • Goetting, D. (2004). Attitudes and job satisfaction in Louisiana library workplaces. Louisiana Libraries, 67(1), 12-17.
  • Goetting, D. (2003). Newbery & Caldecott awards: a subject index. Joie de Livres, 6(1), 2.
  • Goetting, D., & Richard, S. Cajun cookbooks of Louisiana: a bibliography. (In progress.)
  • Goetting, D., Richard, S., Curry, S., & Miguez, B. (2003). Newbery and Caldecott awards: a subject index. Worthington, OH: Linworth.

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