Linda L. Lillard

Linda L. Lillard holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business Education and an M.L.S. and Ph.D. in Library and Information Management from Emporia State University in Kansas. She was on faculty at University of Central Missouri, University of Kentucky, and Emporia State University before she came home to Pennsylvania to Clarion University. Dr. Lillard’s dissertation research was on the information seeking behaviors and information needs of people working in online environments, specifically eBay entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneur herself on several occasions: Taos Candy Factory in Taos, New Mexico and Pak-n-Ship in Emporia, KS, Dr. Lillard has always been interested in the information needs of entrepreneurs. The advent of the online environment broadened her research interests to people working in an online environment and thus she has also studied embedded librarianship and worked with LIS students to embed them in online courses to assist other students with their information needs.

Publications

Is Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Academia an Elusive Dream?: Can the Institutional Barriers Be Broken Down? A Review of the Literature and the Case of Library Science
Is Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Academia an Elusive Dream?: Can the Institutional Barriers Be Broken Down? A Review of the Literature and the Case of Library Science
Linda L. Lillard. © 2018. 9 pages.
A description of how interdisciplinary collaboration can take place is presented to frame this chapter on the risks and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. Beginning...
Bates' Berrypicking Model (1989, 2002, 2005)
Bates' Berrypicking Model (1989, 2002, 2005)
Linda L. Lillard, YooJin Ha. © 2018. 12 pages.
Bates' model integrated a biological and a socio-cultural perspective to argue that, in practice, information seeking does not follow a systematic search process but more...
A Comparison of the Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Entrepreneurs in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing and Developed Countries: A Review of the Literature
A Comparison of the Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Entrepreneurs in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing and Developed Countries: A Review of the Literature
Linda L. Lillard. © 2016. 18 pages.
“Entrepreneurial spirit has been described as the most important economic development stimulus in recent decades” (Chalhoub, 2011, p. 67). In the early 1990s it was estimated...
Bates' Berrypicking Model (1989, 2002, 2005)
Bates' Berrypicking Model (1989, 2002, 2005)
Linda L. Lillard, YooJin Ha. © 2015. 11 pages.
Bates' model integrated a biological and a socio-cultural perspective to argue that, in practice, information seeking does not follow a systematic search process but more...
Information Access and Library User Needs in Developing Countries
Information Access and Library User Needs in Developing Countries
Mohammed Nasser AI-Suqri, Linda L. Lillard, Naifa Eid AI-Saleem. © 2014. 286 pages.
While high quality library and information services continue to thrive and strengthen economic and social development, much of the knowledge that exists on user’s needs and...
A Comparison of the Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Entrepreneurs in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing and Developed Countries: A Review of the Literature
A Comparison of the Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Entrepreneurs in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Developing and Developed Countries: A Review of the Literature
Linda L. Lillard. © 2014. 18 pages.
“Entrepreneurial spirit has been described as the most important economic development stimulus in recent decades” (Chalhoub, 2011, p. 67). In the early 1990s it was estimated...