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City: Pineville, SC

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Administration & Management
• Distance Education in LIS
• Electronic Reference Services
• Evaluation of Service
• Information Literacy and Instruction
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Personnel
• Reference and Information Services
• Research Methods

Research Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Continuing Education in LIS
• Distance Education in LIS
• Electronic Reference Services
• Evaluation of Service
• Information Literacy and Instruction
• Information Needs / Behaviors of Specific Groups
• Information Needs and Behaviors / Practices
• Personnel
• Reference and Information Services
• Research Methods

Dr. Renée Jefferson

Lecturer

Dr. Renée N. Jefferson received her M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina and her Ph.D. in educational measurement and statistics from the University of Iowa. She was formerly an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. Her professional library experience includes Head of Reference Services at California State University, San Bernardino, and social sciences librarian at California State University, Long Beach.

Her research interests include the use of college admissions tests, information literacy, and professional ethics. Most recently, she coauthored Ethical Perspectives of Graduate Library and Information Science Students in the United States published in New Library World (2005).

Courses Taught

• > [210] Reference and Information Services
• > [230] Issues in Academic Libraries
• > [286] Interpersonal Communication Skills for Librarians

Education

• Ph.D. (Educational Measurement & Statistics) University of Iowa (1997)
• M.S. (Organizational Psychology) California State University, Long Beach (1993)
• M.L.I.S. (Library & Information Science) University of South Carolina (1986)
• B.S. (Statistics) University of South Carolina (1985)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, School of Education, The Citadel (2003-)
• Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina (1998-2003)
• Head, Reference Services, CSU San Bernardino (1995-1998)
• Reference Librarian, CSU Long Beach (1986-1991)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

• Jefferson, R. N. (2009). Parametric statistics. In B. T. Erford (Ed.), The ACA encyclopedia of counseling. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
• Jefferson, R. N., & Arnold, L. W. (2009). Effects of virtual education on academic culture: Perceived advantages and disadvantages. U.S.-China Education Review, 6(3), 61-66.
• Gilbert, G. E., McNeil, R. B., & Jefferson, R. (2008). JNMA introducing more rigor in manuscripts. Journal of the National Medical Association, 100(12), 1-5.
• Jefferson, R. N. (2008, Winter). The twelfth off-campus library services conference proceedings. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 27(4), 17.
• Jefferson, R., & Contreras, S. (January, 2005). Ethical perspectives of graduate library and information science students in the United States. New Library World, 106 (1/2).
• Tu, F., Zimmerman, N., & Jefferson, R. (2004). It's not just a matter of ethics III: Current status of the ethical provision of consumer health information services in public libraries in California and South Carolina - A preliminary report. In T. Mendina & J. J. Britz (Eds.), Information ethics in the electronic age: Current issues in Africa and the World (pp. 107-113). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
• Matthews, A. L, & Jefferson, R. N. (2001). Civil Rights, affirmation action, and diversity's cross-pressures: An African American View. In El color de la tierra: Las minorias en Mexico y Estados Unidos. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
• Nesbitt, R. D. (1997). Faculty-librarian partnerships. Education Libraries, 21(1/2), 5-10.

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