Keynote Speaker
Carol
Simpson, Ed.D.
http://www.carolsimpson.com/
Author, consultant, editor on issues of ethics, copyright, school library management
“Can you? Should you?”
Dr. Simpson will discuss the current
fair use climate and the raging battle between those who think educators
should force educational fair use to the wall, and others who advocate
a more conservative approach.
Dr. Carol Simpson, Ed.D., joined the UNT SLIS faculty in August 1998 after serving in the public schools for 25 years as a high school teacher, school librarian, district library director, and library technology director. She currently directs three courses while on modified service – a semi-retirement status.
Dr. Simpson teaches courses that lead to the school library certification, including cataloging, audiovisual production, and school library management. All her classes are taught in an online environment. In the School she specializes in preparing courses for the Web, and received the University’s Distributed Learning Pioneer Award.
Her research interests include copyright law - especially as it applies to public schools – and school library management, plus ethical issues such as censorship of library materials. In addition, applications of instructional technology are a secondary research interest. She has served on several committees of the American Library Association including the Copyright Subcommittee of the Office for Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee. For the Texas Library Association she served as the Councilor of the Media and Related Technologies Round Table, and on the Lawyers for Libraries task force.
Dr. Simpson received a BS degree in art education from Southwestern University.
She also holds an MA degree in Instructional Media and an MLS degree, both
from the University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral studies were completed
at Texas A&M University in Commerce, with a major in Curriculum and
Instruction concentrating in Educational Technology. Her dissertation investigated
the collaboration between principals, library directors, and school librarians
in conducting personnel evaluations of school library media specialists.She
received her JD degree in 2008 from the Southern Methodist University Dedman
School of Law.