Budd, John (M.) 1953–

PERSONAL: Born June 22, 1953, in Opelousas, LA; son of Foster, Jr. (a postal supervisor) and Mildred (a homemaker; maiden name, Veillon) Budd; married, wife's name Sally (divorced April 17, 1987); married Joni M. Blake (a librarian), May 25, 1996. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Louisiana State University, B.A., 1974, M.L.S., 1979; University of Texas, M.A., 1976; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1985. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Roman Catholic.

ADDRESSES: Office—School of Information Science and Learning Technologies, University of Missouri—Columbia, 303 Townsend, Columbia, MO 65211.

CAREER: University of Arizona, Tucson, assistant professor of library and information science, 1987–91; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, associate professor of library and information science, 1991–93; University of Missouri, Columbia, professor of library and information science, 1993–.

MEMBER: American Library Association, American Society of Information Science and Technology, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

AWARDS, HONORS: Highsmith Library Literature Award, American Library Association, 2002, for Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework.

WRITINGS:

(Compiler) Eight Scandinavian Novelists: Criticism and Reviews in English, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1981.

(Compiler) Henry James: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1975–1981, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1983.

The Library and Its Users: The Communication Process, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1992.

The Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation, Libraries Unlimited (Englewood, CO), 1998.

Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework, Scarecrow Press (Lanham, MD), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on ethics and higher education.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Quarterly, July, 2002, Beverly P. Lynch, review of The Academic Library: Its Context, Its Purpose, and Its Operation, p. 379; January, 2003, Archie L. Dick and John Weckert, review of Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science: A Philosophical Framework, p. 73.