Tonyia Tidline

Assistant Professor, School of Library & Information Studies

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

Dr. Tidline's research interests include: Information behavior – includes contexts of need, seeking, retrieval and use; administration and knowledge management; and concepts of overload; History of the Book; Administration and management of library and information services; Research methodology – including the spectrum of motivations for and means of doing research and looking beyond the "quantitative-qualitative" dichotomy; “Art as information” – thesis topic exploring art-making and art appreciation as methods of information encoding and transfer; Visual Literacy – understanding competencies that allow us to interpret non-textual communication.

Select Publications and Creative Work:

Tidline, T. J. (2001). Computer Literacy The Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. Jorge Reina Schement ed. Macmillan Reference USA: New York.

Brockman, W.S., Neumann, L., Palmer, C.L. & Tidline, T.J. (2001). Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment. Digital Library Federation and the Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C.

Tidline, T. J. (2002). Information Overload The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Allen Kent ed. Marcel Dekker, Inc: New York.