Timothy J. Dickey Email and Phone Number

Timothy Dickey is an Adult Services Librarian with the Columbus Metropolitan Library a graduate library science educator, an author and regular clinician on library services to older adults. He has more than ten years’ excellent service in information services, collection management, branch management, and caring mentorship throughout the research process. He is experienced with all aspects of library technology, including emerging technologies, and a tenacious team player who thrives on a variety of work experiences and challenges. Timothy also has many years' experience creating and delivering courses both online and in person with a current repertoire of courses in Library technology, Reference, Cataloging, Research methods, and Music librarianship, for Kent State University, Catholic University, the University of Washington iSchool, and San Jose State University. Prior to that he assisted Dr. Lynn Connaway at the OCLC Office of Research, with work in data mining, user studies, and an IMLS grant project evaluating virtual reference services. He holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from Duke University, and the M.L.I.S. from Kent State University. Dr. Dickey's professional publications have appeared in JASIS&T, Library Resources & Technical Services, Information Technology and Libraries, Library & Information Science Research, the ASIS&T Bulletin, Libri, College & Research Libraries, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and Cambridge’s Early Music History; he has presented research at the ALA Annual Conference, the annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, ALISE, the Charleston Conference, the Library Research Seminar, and the University of Wisconsin Library History Seminar. He has worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries and at the libraries of Amherst College, the University of Connecticut, and Duke University, and has taught at the Ohio State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Cincinnati, and Ohio Wesleyan University.