Cheryl Knott

Cheryl Knott publishes in the area of information access and print culture history, broadly construed. Her history of racially segregated libraries, Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award. Her current research assesses the impact of The Limits to Growth, a book published in 1972, which used computerized scenarios to project the earth’s catastrophic future. 

She is the author of Find the Information You Need! (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and the third edition of Karen Markey’s Online Searching. Professor Knott is a recipient of the Justin Winsor Prize sponsored by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and a winner of the Methodology Paper Competition of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. External funding for her research has come from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the American Philosophical Society. With ten years of experience as an academic librarian at the Universities of Michigan and Texas, she teaches the undergraduate online searching course, co-convened government information course and graduate information intermediation course.

Courses

• LIS 432: Online Searching
• LIS 472/572: Government Information
• LIS 532: Information Intermediation