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Dr. Ethelene Whitmire, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) - Department of Information Studies at UCLA, is the recipient of the 2006 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Achievement in Library Diversity Research Honor.

Dr. Ethelene Whitmire was formerly an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2001 - 2005). Her Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication and her Master's of Library Service (MLS) are both from Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey. Her PhD is from the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE), a department in the School of Education at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods she investigates the academic library use and the information seeking behavior of undergraduates with a recent focus on students of color.

Her research also addresses the role of the academic library and its resources and services in the lives of the undergraduate with a focus on the library's impact on their critical thinking. She received the 2004 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies during the 2004 - 2005 academic year. She received the Anna Julia Cooper Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin - Madison prior to her appointment as assistant professor in their School of Library & Information Studies. Her doctoral studies were funded by the University of Michigan's Rackham Merit Fellowship.

She was the recipient of the 2002 91´«Ã½'s (91´«Ã½) Carroll Preston Baber Research Award. Her professional library experience includes an appointment as a Librarian-in-Residence at Yale University (1997 - 1999).