Ph.D., History, 8/04
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Dissertation Chair: John Y. Simon, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Dissertation topic: Elizabeth Packard and Boundaries of Gender, Religion, and Sanity in Nineteenth-
Century America
M.S., Library & Information Science, 8/85
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Psychology (summa cum laude), 5/80
Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 1986-Present. Associate Professor.
Social Sciences Librarian, 10/87 to present
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Historical Studies, HIST 314, History of the Development of
Feminist Thought, spring semester 2001
Head, Library Circulation Department, 2/86-10/87
Ursuline Academy, Springfield, IL, 8/85-1/86
School Librarian
Blackburn College, Carlinville, IL, 8/80-5/84
Head, Circulation Department
Carlisle, Linda V. “‘New Notions and Wild Vagaries’: Elizabeth Packard’s Quest for Personal Liberty,”
The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 93(1), Spring 2000.
Pruitt, Linda V. “The Hand That Rocked the Cradle Shaped the Church: How Church Women in American
History Shaped a Culture,” The Central Illinois Historical Messenger 26 (2), April-June 1994.
Pruitt, Linda Carlisle. Women in the United Methodist Tradition: The Central Illinois Example:
A Guide to Research Methods and Resources, Bloomington, IL: Central Illinois Conference
Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, 1991.
Pruitt, Linda Carlisle, “Ann Dumville: A Woman of Conviction,” Methodist History, April 1987.
Pruitt, Linda Vee. “Archives and Records Management in the Federal Government: The Post-GSA
Context,” Provenance 3 (2), Fall 1985.
Regular book reviewer for Library Journal, 1992 – present.
Carlisle, Linda V. “Faithful in the Common Tasks: Methodist Tradition Ladies Aid Societies.” Invited
speaker, Carlinville United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women’s Day,
September 15, 2002.
_____________. “‘I Though a Woman’: Elizabeth Packard and the Boundaries of Gender, Science, and
Sanity in Nineteenth Century America.” Paper, Harvard University Graduate Gender Studies
Conference, March 3, 2001.
_____________. “‘New Notions and Wild Vagaries’: The Life and Thought of Elizabeth Packard, 19th
Century Illinois Reformer.” Paper, Illinois History Symposium, Springfield (December 2, 1999).
_____________. “Customized and Personalized: Bibliographic Instruction to Span The Millennia.” Poster
Session (with Kathlyn Behm, Lydia Jackson and Julia Hansen), Illinois Library Association,
Chicago, October 1999.
_____________. “How Do I Get from Virtual Reality to Reality? Bibliographic Instruction in the
Electronic Age.” Poster Session (with Kathlyn Behm, Lydia Jackson and Julia Hansen), American
Library Association, New Orleans, July 1999.
_____________. “Is There Virtue in Virtuality? Redefining Instruction in the Academic Library:
Examples from the Social Sciences.” Presentation, Illinois Association of College and Research
Libraries, Matteson, Illinois, April, 1998.
_____________. “How American Church Women Shaped a Culture.” Invited paper, North Central
Jurisdiction Archives and History Convocation, United Methodist Church, Illinois Wesleyan
University, Bloomington, IL July 10-13, 1995.
Edwardsville, for best paper in German history, “Mechthilde of Magdeburg: A Space Enlarged by Love” (1997)
Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grants, SIUE:
ICCMP & CARLI Grants, Consortium of Academic Libraries in Illinois:
Funded University Research award ($800) for travel to Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California (1999)
Faculty Development award ($800) to develop workshop “Scholarly Communication in the Electronic Age (with Library Research and Projects Committee, 1996)
Faculty Development award ($3,000), to develop library-wide faculty development seminar (with M. McFarland, 1992)
Funded University Research award ($948) for Methodist Women’s History Project (1989)
Funded University Research award ($200) for Methodist Women’s History Project (1988)
Since 1986 I have served on the following committees (* = currently serving):
Annual Review of Library Director and Associate Director (chaired)
Automation Group
Circulation Policy Committee
*Collection Management Committee
*Content DM Committee
Elections Committee
*Exhibits Committee
*Facilities Planning Committee
Four-Year Review of Library Director
Four-Year Review of Library Dean
Interlibrary Loan Ad Hoc Committee
Library Cabinet (chaired)
Library Management Group
Mentor for 3 untenured faculty members
Priorities-Quality-Productivity (PQP) Committee
Priorities-Quality-Productivity (PQP), Subcommittee on Library Collections (chaired)
*Research, Projects and Development Committee (chaired)
Reserves/Supplemental Readings Subcommittee (chaired)
Search Committee, Director of Technical and Access Services
Search Committee, Science Librarian
Search Committee, University Archivist
Short-term Accomplishments Task Force (chaired)
Space Committee
*Strategic Planning Committee
Strategic Planning, Staff Development Task Force
*Tenure, Promotion and Salary (chaired)
LIS Web Development Committee (chaired)
Contributing Committee on Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Development.
Faculty Senate (alternate)
Graduate Thesis Committees (Geography, Historical Studies)
Master Faculty Grievance Panel
Phi Alpha Phi Undergraduate Paper Competition (chaired)
Program Review Committee (Undergraduate, Economics) (chaired)
Program Review Committee (Undergraduate, Civil Engineering)
Rising Junior Assessment Faculty
*University Research & Development Committee
*Women’s Studies Program Faculty
Illinois Library Computer System Circulation Librarians Group
Illinois Library Computer System Circulation Librarians, Steering Committee
Illinois Great Rivers Conference Historical Society, United Methodist Church
(Secretary-treasurer)
Library Advisory Group, Blackburn College
St. Louis Regional Research Libraries ad hoc Group on Cooperative Collection
Development and Access
Women’s History Task Force, Central Illinois Conference, United Methodist Church (chaired)
Association of College and Research Libraries
Friends of Lovejoy Library
Phi Kappa Phi
