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about tracey burdick, ph.d.

• tracey's formal education
  • Ph.D.
    Florida State University, Graduate School of Information Studies
  • M.L.S.
    University of Denver, Library and Information Science
  • B.A.
    University of Oklahoma, English summa cum laude
  
  
• informal education
  • In Florida, New Mexico, Michigan, and Oklahoma
  • has worked in
    • library media centers
      • in a Catholic boarding school for Native Americans
      • a private elementary school
      • an award winning middle school
    • a state-wide library automation service doing user research and electronic publishing
    • research consultation to FSU
    • [the now defunct] Florida SchoolYear 2000s
    • a bank and law firm
    • a bookmobile
    • a small rural college
    • Reach Out and Read
    • elementary to graduate schools, teaching
      • Children's Media to undergraduate and graduate students
      • Information Management to undergraduate students
      • English to secondary students and adults going back for a diploma
      • health education (euphemism for human sexuality and development) to students and sometimes their parents
  
  
• is most curious about (see projects)
  • gender
  • ideas and information in fiction and nonfiction
  • information seeking behavior, what real people want and need to know and how they find out, in fiction and nonfiction, online and otherwise.
  • bibliopathy theory
  
  
• has traveled to Mexico, Canada, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Australia, England, Amsterdam, France, and the Carribean (so far)
  
  
• is [officially] certified:
  • language arts teacher
  • library media specialist
  • webmaster
  
  
• distressed by
  • computers that are hard to use (and the people who made them so)
  • libraries that are more concerned with rules than wisdom
  • administrators who count beans without thinking
  • cancer, malaria, HIV, etc.
  • greedy politicians and CEOs, especially those who lie
  • censorship and injustice
  
  
• enthused by
  • her sons, the ocean, the West, swimming, dance, sunshine, rollerblading, totem poles...
  • stories, literature, and fictional sense-making
  • computers, authentic education, mindful learning, and libraries that are user friendly
  
  
• paradoxically paired with the M.D. part of paradocs, Michael Wilder
  
• a parting paradoxical porthole:
  
  our treeless treefrogs