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City: DeKalb, IL
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Teaching & Professional Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Social / Community Informatics
• Special Collections / Rare Books

Research Interests

• Academic Libraries
• Acquisitions Theory and Practice
• Administration and Management
• Archival Collections
• Arts / Humanities Literatures
• Books / Printing / Publishing Industry
• Copyright / Intellectual Property
• Funding
• History of Information Science
• History of Libraries and Library Science
• Libraries and Society / Culture
• Preservation of Collections
• Special Collections / Rare Books
• Popular culture materials

Lynne M. Thomas

Lecturer

Lynne M. Thomas is the Head of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL, where she is responsible for popular culture special collections that include the papers of SF authors Robert Asprin, Tamora Pierce, Elizabeth Bear, Kage Baker, and Jack McDevitt, and significant collections of dime novels and popular historical children’s literature. She holds a BA in French and Comparative Literature from Smith College, an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MA in English and American Literature from Northern Illinois University. She has published scholarly articles about cross-dressing in dime novels, and has a forthcoming article about surviving the zombie apocalypse through academic librarianship. She is the co-author of Special Collections 2.0 with Beth Whittaker of the University of Kansas (Libraries Unlimited, 2009), and the co-editor of Chicks Dig Time Lords (Mad Norwegian Press, March 2010) and the forthcoming Whedonistas (Mad Norwegian Press, March 2011), essay collections of women celebrating science fiction television fandom.

Courses Taught

• > [284] Seminar in Archives & Records Management

Education

• MA, English and American Literature, Northern Illinois University (2006)
• MS, Library and Information Science, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)
• BA, Comparative Literature and French Literature, Smith College (1996)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Head, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (January 2004-present)
• Catalog Librarian (I & II), Rare Book Team, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (1999-2003)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

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

• see below

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