Allyson Carlyle (February 1954 – April 4, 2020) was a United States of America library and information science scholar, considered a leading scholar in the field of cataloging.[1]
Allyson Carlyle | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 1954 |
| Died | April 4, 2020 |
| Nationality | American |
Carlyle was one of the initial faculty members of the University of Washington Information School, and served as the school’s first Associate Dean for Academics under Dean Michael Eisenberg.[2] Carlyle worked to increase the diversity of the library profession, and established the Sherman Alexie and Lethene Parks Endowed Fellowship in Tribal and Rural Librarianship at the iSchool.[1]
She was known for innovative cataloging research that focused on how users would find items, not just how librarians would organize them.[1] In 1998 she was the recipient of the Jesse H. Shera Award for Excellence in Published Research for her article Fulfilling the Second Objective in the Online Catalog: Schemes for Organizing Author and Work Records into Usable Displays.[3] She joined the editorial board of The Library Quarterly in 2009.[4] She also won the OCLC/ALISE Research Paper Award in 2000, for Developing Organized Information Displays for Voluminous Works: A Study of User Clustering Behavior.[4] She retired from the iSchool in 2018 but continued to teach cataloging there.[5] An issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly was a dedicated festschrift to her.[5]
Carlyle was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Montana.[1] She earned her MLS and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1994. Elaine Svenonius was her Ph.D. advisor.[1] She served with the Peace Corps in Africa. Her longtime partner was Lisa Fusco.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Lyke, Mary Lynn (2018-12-14). "Allyson Carlyle remembered for generosity and dedication to students – The Information School pays tribute to Allyson Carlyle". The Information School pays tribute to Allyson Carlyle. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "The Information School pays tribute to Allyson Carlyle". The Information School pays tribute to Allyson Carlyle. 2020-04-26. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "Library Research Round Table's Shera Award Winners". About ALA. 2007-03-29. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ a b Bertot, John Carlo; Jaeger, Paul T. (2009). "From the Editors". The Library Quarterly. 79 (1). University of Chicago Press: i–vi. doi:10.1086/593959. ISSN 0024-2519. S2CID 224807912.
- ^ a b Tennis, Joseph T. (2018-11-09). "Ethos of Care: A Festschrift for Dr. Allyson Carlyle at the Occasion of her Retirement". Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 56 (8). Informa UK Limited: 663–664. doi:10.1080/01639374.2018.1495299. ISSN 0163-9374.