Education | Teaching Experience | Professional Experience | Publications | Presentations | Grants Memberships/Offices Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. Drew University
M.S. Columbia University
B.S. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Ph.D. Dissertation: Up the Hill of Opportunity: American Public Libraries and ALA during World War II Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (University Library)
Other Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2004) "L&I SCI 531: Organization of Information"
Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2003) "LIS 544-569: History of American Librarianship"
Adjunct Faculty (1992 & 1995) "LIS350/550: Introduction to Bibliographic Organization"
Professional ExperienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (University Library)
Coordinator of Reference Instruction Collection Development
Coordinator of Reference Instruction Collection Development
Reference and Instruction Librarian
Marquette University
Vancouver Island Regional Library
British Columbia Ministry of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Drew University
PublicationsBecker, Patti Clayton. "The Allez Years, 1939-1945," in Tradition and Vision: Library and Information Studies, A Centennial History, ed. by Louise S. Robbins, Anne H. Lundin, and Michele Besant (UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, 2006): 443-61. Books and libraries in American society during World War II: Weapons in the war of ideas. New York: Routledge, 2005. Becker, Patti Clayton. Review of Not Seeing Red: American Librarianship and the Soviet Union, 1917-1960 by Stephen Karetzky (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002). Portal: Libraries and the Academy 3 (July 2003): 538-539. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v003/3.3becker.html * Rejoinder to author's letter of objection Portal: Libraries and the Academy 4 (April 2004): 311-312 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v004/4.2letters.html "In Time of War,"
American Libraries 34(5), May 2003: 54-57. Presentations
"Give the Books You Want to Keep: The Victory Book Campaigns of World War II." ALA Library History Round Table invited speaker, ALA annual conference, June 27, 2004, Orlando, FL.
"Telling It Like It Is: Doctoral Dissertation Research." Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, October 31, 2002, Middleton, WI.
"American Libraries in Time of War." Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians annual conference luncheon speaker, April 18, 2002, Green Lake, WI.
"Give the Books You Want to Keep: The Victory Book Campaigns of World War II." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) annual conference, July 18, 1999, Madison, WI, and Beta Phi Mu dinner guest speaker, May 17, 2001.
"The Allez Years." UW-Madison, School of Library and Information Studies Centennial Lecture. May 1, 1998, Madison, WI.
"Rallying the Homefront: Wisconsin Public Libraries during World War II," Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Milwaukee, November 6, 1997.
"Dewey Decimal Classification: 20th Edition." Wisconsin Library Association annual conference, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, October 1989.
Grants
UWSP Technology Minigrant ($1,000), Spring 2004 (Co-recipient with Terri Muraski). UWSP sabbatical, spring 2001 (to work on turning dissertation into manuscript to submit for publication as a book). Delmas Foundation Grant - July 1999. Recipient of $1000.00 new faculty grant from UWSP - University Professional Development Committee to conduct research on public libraries during World War II - spring 1995. Memberships/Offices
American Library Association, 1981- present Wisconsin Library Association, 1987 - present Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, 1987 - present Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, 1996- present Co-Chair, Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians 2006 Conference Planning Committee Member at Large, Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, 2001-2002 Chair, Library Research Roundtable, Wisconsin Library Association, 1997 Vice Chair/Chair Elect, Library Research Roundtable, Wisconsin Library Association, 1996
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