Kathleen Collins

Email: collinsk@u.washington.edu
Office: 108B Odegaard Undergraduate Library
Phone: (206) 685-2771
IM (chat): Catch me in my office via instant messaging:

uwkathleen (AOL)
kathleen_uw (Yahoo)
kathleen_uw@yahoo.com (MSN)

I support the research and teaching needs of UW faculty, students, and of teachers, librarians, and other researchers throughout Washington state. This includes buying books, maintaining subject web pages, providing research assistance, and teaching research methods. Although I don't act as liaison to a specific academic department, I have worked with researchers in a broad range of disciplines including library and information science, education, languages and literatures, the history of childhood, art, and sociology.

What else do I do?
My other job responsibilities include coordinating reference services at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library; selecting materials for the undergraduate reference collection and the career collection; and partnering with subject librarians to provide research instruction to undergraduate students in a variety of disciplines.

I also help support Tim Jewell, Sociology Librarian, by providing consultations and instructional support to undergraduate and graduate students researching sociological topics.

Need help with your children's literature or sociology research?
Drop by my office hours or email me your questions.

Selected Bibliographies:

• Every Picture Tells a Story: The Art of Narrative in Wordless Books
• Images of Blackness in American Children's Picture Books, 1899 - 1999: Selections from the UW Children's Literature Collection
• Twice Upon a Time: Fairy Tales Revisited
• Books We Have Loved: Children's Literature Favorites of Libraries Staff

Selected Web Pages:

• Children's Literature Subject Page
• Researching Children's & Young Adult Literature
• The Art of Narrative in Wordless Books (exhibit)
  

Librarians with related expertise:
Sandra Kroupa, Special Collections
Venta Silins, UW Bothell
Anna Salyer, UW Tacoma