2024 Core Forum

Karen Snow is a Professor and the PhD Program Director in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. She teaches face-to-face and online in the areas of cataloging, classification, and metadata. She completed her PhD in Information Science at the University of North Texas in 2011 and while doing so worked as a cataloger in the Rare Book Room, University Archives, and the Technical Services departments. Her main areas of research interest are cataloging quality, ethics, and education. In 2016, she received the Follett Corporation’s Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she has published two books with Rowman & Littlefield: A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification (2017) and A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Subject Headings (2021).