Elisabeth
Knight
Associate
Professor, Extended
Campus Librarian, Department
of Library Public Services
Education
Position
Description
Research
Public
Services
Education
- M.L.I.S.
Library & Information Science (1995). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- M.A.
English Literature (1993). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- B.A.
English Literature ( ). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Thesis:
The Existential Grail Quest in T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland."
)
- Wisconsin
Conservatory of Music 1974-1979
Position
Description
Ms.
Knight has been a member of the Department of Library Public Services
faculty since 1995.
- Handle
reference requests and provide assistance, materials, advice, and
research for WKU's distance education students
- Collaboration
with Glasgow Campus Librarian to assure campus quality service to
extended campus students
- Supervise
two part-time employees and two students
- Provide
research instruction for all Extended Campus and English Department
classes
- Act
as KYVL Reference contact (part of the Kentucky Virtual University)
at WKU
- Perform
collection development for the subject English, Film Studies, and
Women's Studies
Research
My library
related areas of interest include teaching methodology for use in both
public and academic libraries and the servicing a distance learning
population.
Research
interests include 19th Century British literature (especially Victorian
poetry & Robert Browning), Medieval literature, Arthurian literature,
and Elizabethan & Jacobean poetry and plays. I am especially interested
in:
the 19th Century British Literature (especially the works of Gerard
Manley Hopkins, Oscar Wilde, Wordsworth, Keats, et al.); the works of
Jane Austin; Renaissance Drama (especially William Shakespeare, Christopher
Marlowe, and Thomas Kydd); Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1640); American
Literature writers: Nathanal Hawthorne, T. S. Eliot, amongst others)
and the Medieval Period and writers (Chaucer, Marie de France, Chritien
de Troy etc.).
- Articles
- Knight,
Elisabeth. "How Smart is a SMART Board for an Academic Library?
Using an Electronic whiteboard for Research Instruction." Kentucky
Libraries August 2003.
Knight, Elisabeth, Moore, Elaine, and Ruth Kinnersley.
"WKU Libraries' Kentucky Virtual University Support Services.
Kentucky Libraries. 65.4 (Fall 2001): 31-35.
Knight,
Elisabeth and Elaine Moore. "Promoting
and Teaching Community Internet Workshops." Kentucky
Libraries. v. 64 n. 4 (Fall 2000): 8-11.
Knight,
Elisabeth. "Electronic Databases
in the Sports, Physical Education, Health and Related Fields."
KAPHERD Journal. V.36 n. 2 (Fall 2000): 24-28.
-
Knight,
Elisabeth. "At the Turn of the Millennium, A Library Development
Time-Line." Against the Grain. V.11 n.6 (Dec. 1999-Jan.2000):
Cover page and page 16.
Elisabeth,
Knight. "'With Eyes on the Prize': Award-Winning Academic
Books in the Humanities." College and Undergraduate Libraries,
5.2 (1998): 99-113.
Elisabeth,
Knight. "Reviewing the Reviews: Library Journal and Choice."
Kentucky Libraries, 60.2 (Spr. 1996): 27-36.
- Papers
Presented
-
Knight,
Elisabeth and Roxanne Spencer. "To Boldly Go Where No Librarian
has Gone Before." Charleston Conference 2003 (23rd Annual
Conference, Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition), November 5-8,
in Charleston, SC.
Knight,
Elisabeth and Roxanne Spencer. "Make It So! Charting a Plot
to a Great Science Fiction, Fantasy Collection." KLA/KSMA
Joint Conference, in Louisville, KY, October 10, 2003.
"Death
at the Depot." Performance of the character Sister Ruth Weinstein
in a play performed for the KLA Public Library Services Section
at the Bowling Green Public Library, Depot Branch, on April 18,
2002.
"Folkways
on the Web" Elisabeth Knight and Jack Montgomery a BellSouth
Internet Workshop. Sept. 12, 2001.
"Mysterious
Websites: Investigating Mysteries on the Internet" A Workshop
presented at the Bowling Green Public Library, Depot Branch. October
30, 2001.
Knight,
Elisabeth Elaine Moore, and Ruth Kinnersley. "WKU Libraries'
KCVU Support Services for Faculty and Students." KLA/KSMA
Joint Conference, in Louisville, KY, October 20, 2000.
-
Yuan,
Haiwang, Gay Perkins, Elaine Moore and Elisabeth Knight. "Techniques
to Expand the Impact of Our Electronic Workshops." ALA, in
New Orleans, LA. June 27, 1999.
Knight, Elisabeth and Elaine Moore. "Promoting and Teaching
Community Internet Workshops." at KLA in Louisville, KY.
October 15,1999.
"KCVL
Document Delivery Panel." Moderator at KLA. Oct. 15, 1999.
"Sisters
of Sleuth Panel" Moderator at Southern Kentucky Book Festival
in Bowling Green, KY. Apr. 17, 1999.
"Murder
Mysteries on the Web" A BellSouth Community Workshop at the
Institute for Economic Development April 16, 1998.
"Going
the Distance" (On using the web to serve the off campus population)
Oct. 25, 1996 at SELA/KLA.
Public
Services
- Professional
- Affiliation
- American
Library Association
-
Kentucky Library Association
For National/State
- Member,
Kentucky Library Association: Academic Section
- Member,
American Library Association, ECLSS Statistics Committee
-
KYVL Reference Contact ( 1998-2001)
- KYVL
Delivery Contact (2001-present)
For WKU
-
Sponsor or Adviser of Student Groups of Omega Phi Alpha, a national
service sorority (1997-present)
- Academic
Council Apr. 1997-2000
- Academic
Requirements and Regulations Committee (Vice Chair) Apr. 1997-2000
- Distance
Education Committee 1996-
- Reach
U Committee 2000-
For University Libraries
-
Co-Editor, WKU Libraries Newsletter Committee (1996 –
2002)
- Web
Site Team member
- Bibliographer
for English Department, Film Studies and Women's Studies
- Bibliographer
for Film Studies
- Bibliographer
for Women's Studies
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