CAROL TENOPIR

Professor of Information Sciences,
Director of Research,
College of Communication and Information,
and Director of the Center for Information
and Communication Studies

Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information, and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers, (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) with Donald W. King.
Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the "Online Databases" column for Library Journal. She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.

Awards and Honors

Chancellor’s Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Appointed August 2008 (“the designation constitutes the highest permanent academic honor that can be accorded to a member of the faculty by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville”)
Contribution to Information Science & Technology Award, Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Information Science & Technology “to honor an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of information science”, January 2008
Whittier College Alumni Achievement Award, October 2007
Miles Conrad Award, “For achievement in the field of Information Science and distinguished service to the Federation,” NFAIS (National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services), 2006
American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Libraries Division, 2005 Best Publication Award: “Communication Patterns of Engineers,” Carol Tenopir and Donald W. King.
Distinguished Lecturer, Alice Rankin Distinguished Lecture for “an individual who has made significant contributions to librarianship/information science”. New Jersey Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, 2005
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, University of Oulu , Finland , 2005