Dr. Kathleen Burnett
Dr. Burnett's current teaching areas include theory development, LIS education, information science, web development and gender & information technology.
In the past (and hopefully again sometime in the future ...) Dr. Burnett designed and taught an undergraduate course in Information Science, which she taught both face-to-face and online. She also taught a freshman seminar in the Philosophy of Technology and a course on Gender and Information Technology that included undergraduates in Information Studies and Women's Studies.
Dr. Burnett teaches regularly in the master's program. In the past she has taught Information Organization, Cataloging & Classification, Information Resources for Remote Users, Information Technology, Internet Interfaces, Information Structures and Preservation. Currently she teaches LIS 5362 Design and Production of Network Multimedia. This course is taught online and enrolls between 50 and 75 students every semester. Students learn two markup languages (xhtml & css), and work in small groups to complete service-learning web development projects for a client. The initial design and development of this website was done by students enrolled in this course in Spring 2007. Another group designed a website featuring her glass art work.
With Dr. Myke Gluck, Dr. Burnett supervised the first master's thesis in LIS at FSU, and served on the committee of another master's thesis student. She has also served as the adviser to a number of Specialist degree students.
Dr. Burnett has taught seminars in Theory Development, Intellectual Access and LIS Education at FSU, and taught a seminar in the History of Information Technology at Rutgers University. She will teach the LIS Education seminar in Spring 2009.
Dr. Burnett served as the lead principal investigator for Project Athena, a program to help prepare future Library and Information Studies faculty. The program was funded through two grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and involved 11 doctoral students at four universities, including three doctoral students at the College of Information, all of whom currently hold faculty appointments at other universities: Renee Franklin (Syracuse University), Sheri V.T. Ross (College of St. Catherine), and Howard Rodriguez-Mori (Simmons College).