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Carol Tenopir Carol Tenopir is Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. An internationally known researcher with a history of innovative and influential work on databases, online searching, and scholarly publishing, she holds the BA in English from Whittier College, the MLS from California State University, Fullerton, and the PhD from the University of Illinois. Dr. Tenopir's 1984 dissertation on full-text retrieval won both the ISI/ASIS Dissertation Scholarship Award and the Berner-Nash Award at the University of Illinois. She was on the faculty at University of Hawaii before coming to the University of Tennessee in 1994. Professor Tenopir has authored over 260 publications, including four books and a highly visible column in Library Journal. She has been identified by various studies as one of the most productive LIS faculty members in North America, and as one of the top-100 authors in Information Science. Dr. Tenopir has received research grants from the Council on Library
and Information Resources, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
the National Science Foundation, and the Special Libraries Association,
among other external agencies. The most recent NSF award is to study electronic
journal use by undergraduates. The project will advance academic users'
understanding of the complex presentation of technical information. Professor
Tenopir recently received the 2002 ASIST Research Award from the American
Society for Information Science and Technology for a lifetime of high-quality
research in information science. One nominator wrote, "The usefulness
and value of her extensive research are found in her widely-read publications
and in her outstanding teaching."
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