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	'''Elfreda Chatman''' (1942-2002) was an African-American information science researcher.		'''Elfreda Chatman''' (1942-2002) was an African-American information science researcher.

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	*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [https://www.ala.org/lrrt/popularresources/tributes/tributetochatman/tributedrelfreda]		*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [https://www.ala.org/lrrt/popularresources/tributes/tributetochatman/tributedrelfreda]
	*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, confers the Elfreda Chatman [Student] Research Award. [https://sils.unc.edu/about-sils/awards/]		*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, confers the Elfreda Chatman [Student] Research Award. [https://sils.unc.edu/about-sils/awards/]
	*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]		*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==

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	'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio. She became the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio. She also argued for positive images of blackness in the Roman Catholic church (Williams 2022, 189 & 197).		'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio. She became the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio. She also argued for positive images of blackness in the Roman Catholic church (Williams 2022, 189 & 197).

	Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University in 1971 and was a primary school principal. In 1976 she earned an her MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed a ~~PhD~~ in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by [[Patrick Wilson]] was on "The diffusion of information among the working poor." She continued to use her exceptional interpersonal skills and careful attention to methodologies to conduct studies on information-related behavior in a series of underprivileged communities: poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors.		Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University in 1971 and was a primary school principal. In 1976 she earned an her MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed a graduate Certificate in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and then a PhD in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by [[Patrick Wilson]] was on "The diffusion of information among the working poor." She continued to use her exceptional interpersonal skills and careful attention to methodologies to conduct studies on information-related behavior in a series of underprivileged communities: poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors.

	Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 1998 she taught at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.		Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 1998 she taught at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.

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	*"The Information World of Low-Skilled Workers." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 9, no 4 (1987): 265–283.		*"The Information World of Low-Skilled Workers." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 9, no 4 (1987): 265–283.
	*"Life in a Small World: Applicability of Gratification Theory to Information-Seeking Behavior." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42, no 6 (1991): 438–449. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199107)42:6<438::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-B.		*"Life in a Small World: Applicability of Gratification Theory to Information-Seeking Behavior." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 42, no 6 (1991): 438–449. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199107)42:6<438::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-B.
	*"Alienation theory: Application of a conceptual framework to a study of information among janitors." ''Reference Quarterly'' 29, no 3 (1990): 355.		*"Alienation theory: Application of a conceptual framework to a study of information among janitors." ''Reference Quarterly'' 29, no 3 (1990): 355-368.
	*"Channels to a Larger Social World: Older Women Staying in Contact with the Great Society." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 13, no 3 (1991): 281–300.		*"Channels to a Larger Social World: Older Women Staying in Contact with the Great Society." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 13, no 3 (1991): 281–300.
	*''The information world of retired women''. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.		*''The information world of retired women''. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
	*"The Role of Mentorship in Shaping Public Library Leaders." ''Library Trends'' 40, no 3 (1992): 492–512.		*"The Role of Mentorship in Shaping Public Library Leaders." ''Library Trends'' 40, no 3 (1992): 492–512. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/7752]
			*"Knowledge gap, information-seeking and the poor." With Victoria EM Pendleton. In: ''Library users and reference services''. Jo Bell Whitlatch, ed. New York : Haworth Press, 1995, pp. 135-145.
	*"The Impoverished Life-World of Outsiders." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 47, no 3 (1996): 193–206. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199603)47:3<193::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-m.		*"The Impoverished Life-World of Outsiders." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 47, no 3 (1996): 193–206. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199603)47:3<193::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-m.
			*"Small World Lives: Implications for the public library." With Victoria Pendleton.''Library Trends'' 46, no 4 (1998): 732-751. [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/8138]
	*"A Theory of Life in the Round." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 50, no 3 (1999): 207–217. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<207::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-#.		*"A Theory of Life in the Round." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 50, no 3 (1999): 207–217. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<207::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-#.
	*"Framing social life in theory and research." ''The New Review of Information Behaviour Research'' 1 (Dec 1, 2000): 3–17.		*"Framing social life in theory and research." ''The New Review of Information Behaviour Research'' 1 (Dec 1, 2000): 3–17.

	== Offices ==		== Offices ==
	*American Library Association. Library Research Round Table. Active during the 1980s and 1990s, and Chair 1993-1994.		*American Library Association. Library Research Round Table. Active during the 1980s and 1990s and Chair 1993-1994.

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
	*Association of College and Research Libraries. Best Book Award, 1995, for ''The Information World of Retired Women''.		*Association of College and Research Libraries. Best Book Award, 1995, for ''The Information World of Retired Women''.
	*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ~~NC starting in 1985, and a research award there is named for her~~.		*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [https://www.ala.org/lrrt/popularresources/tributes/tributetochatman/tributedrelfreda]
			*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, confers the Elfreda Chatman [Student] Research Award. [https://sils.unc.edu/about-sils/awards/]
	*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]		*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]
	*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [https://www.ala.org/lrrt/popularresources/tributes/tributetochatman/tributedrelfreda]

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
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	*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.		*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.
	*Thompson, Kim M. "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 50, no 2 (2009): 119–26. ?Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.		*Thompson, Kim M. "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 50, no 2 (2009): 119–26. ?Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.
			*Miksa, Shawne D. "Elfreda Chatman, Theorist and Teacher: Reflections on Her Lessons on Theory Development in Information Science." ''Journal of education for library and information science'' 2021-07, 62, no 3 (July 2021): 237-257

	=== Related reading ===		=== Related reading ===
	*Pendleton, Victoria. "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor." ''Reference Librarian'' 49–50 (1995): 135–145.
	*Pendleton, Victoria. "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library." ''Library Trends'' 46, no 4 (1998): 732-?
	*Burnett, Gary & Michele Besant. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 52, no 7 (2001): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.		*Burnett, Gary & Michele Besant. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 52, no 7 (2001): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.
	*Dawson, E. Murrell. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay." ''Information Research: An International Electronic Journal'' 6, no 3 (2001): 105-?.		*Dawson, E. Murrell. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay." ''Information Research: An International Electronic Journal'' 6, no 3 (2001): 105-?.
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	*González-Teruel, A., & F. Abad-García. "The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis." ''Scientometrics'' 117, no 3 (2018): 1793–1819. doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3		*González-Teruel, A., & F. Abad-García. "The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis." ''Scientometrics'' 117, no 3 (2018): 1793–1819. doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3
	*Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)		*Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)
			*Berti, I. C. L. W., E. da C. S. de Carvalho & V. A. dos Santos. "Práticas informacionais: contribuições de Elfreda Annmary Chatman a partir dos estudos de comportamento informacional" [Informational practices: contributions by Elfreda Annmary Chatman from informational behavior studies.] ''Revista Ibero-americana de Ciência da Informação''16, no 1 (Jan 2023): 5-25. [https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/RICI/article/view/42148/36597]

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	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
	*"Field Research: Methodological Themes". ''Library and Information Science Research'' 6, no 4 (1984): 425–438.		*"Field Research: Methodological Themes." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 6, no 4 (1984): 425–438.
	*"Information, Mass Media Use, and the Working Poor." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 7, no 2 (1985): 97–113.		*"Information, Mass Media Use, and the Working Poor." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 7, no 2 (1985): 97–113.
	*"Diffusion Theory: A review and test of a conceptual model in information diffusion." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 37, no 6 (1986): 377–386. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198611)37:6<377::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c.		*"Diffusion Theory: A review and test of a conceptual model in information diffusion." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 37, no 6 (1986): 377–386. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198611)37:6<377::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c.
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	*Pendleton, Victoria. "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor." ''Reference Librarian'' 49–50 (1995): 135–145.		*Pendleton, Victoria. "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor." ''Reference Librarian'' 49–50 (1995): 135–145.
	*Pendleton, Victoria. "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library." ''Library Trends'' 46, no 4 (1998): 732-?		*Pendleton, Victoria. "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library." ''Library Trends'' 46, no 4 (1998): 732-?
	*Huotari, Maija-Leena. "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior." ''Library & Information Science Research'' 23, no 4 (2001): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.
	*Burnett, Gary & Michele Besant. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 52, no 7 (2001): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.		*Burnett, Gary & Michele Besant. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 52, no 7 (2001): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.
	*Dawson, E. Murrell. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay." ''Information Research: An International Electronic Journal'' 6, no 3 (2001): 105-?.		*Dawson, E. Murrell. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay." ''Information Research: An International Electronic Journal'' 6, no 3 (2001): 105-?.
			*Huotari, Maija-Leena. "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior." ''Library & Information Science Research'' 23, no 4 (2001): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.
	*Burnett, Gary, Karen E. Fisher, Crystal Fulton &Julia A. Hersberger. "Channelling Chatman: Questioning the applicability of a research legacy to todays small world realities". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43, no 1 (2006): 1–7. doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197.		*Burnett, Gary, Karen E. Fisher, Crystal Fulton &Julia A. Hersberger. "Channelling Chatman: Questioning the applicability of a research legacy to todays small world realities". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43, no 1 (2006): 1–7. doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197.
			*Jaeger, Paul T. & Gary Burnett. ''Information worlds : social context, technology, and information behavior in the age of the Internet''. New York : Routledge, 2010.
	*González-Teruel, A., & F. Abad-García. "The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis." ''Scientometrics'' 117, no 3 (2018): 1793–1819. doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3		*González-Teruel, A., & F. Abad-García. "The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis." ''Scientometrics'' 117, no 3 (2018): 1793–1819. doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3
	*Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)		*Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)

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	*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.		*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.
	*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)		*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)
	*~~Burnett~~, ~~Gary~~, ~~Karen E~~. ~~Fisher~~, ~~Crystal Fulton &Julia A. Hersberger~~. "~~Channelling~~ Chatman: ~~Questioning the applicability~~ of ~~a research legacy to todays small world realities~~"~~. Proceedings~~ of ~~the American Society~~ for Information Science ~~and Technology. 43~~ (1): ~~1–7~~. ~~doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197~~.		*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.
			*Thompson, Kim M. "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 50, no 2 (2009): 119–26. ?Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.

	~~Florida State Times. Obituaries. (2002)~~		=== Related reading ===
			*Pendleton, Victoria. "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor." ''Reference Librarian'' 49–50 (1995): 135–145.
	~~Fulton, Crystal (2010). "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman". Libraries & the Cultural Record. 45 (2): 238–59. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.~~		*Pendleton, Victoria. "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library." ''Library Trends'' 46, no 4 (1998): 732-?
			*Huotari, Maija-Leena. "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior." ''Library & Information Science Research'' 23, no 4 (2001): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.
	González-Teruel, A., & Abad-García, F. (2018). The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis. Scientometrics, 117(3), 1793–1819. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3</nowiki>		*Burnett, Gary & Michele Besant. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 52, no 7 (2001): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.
			*Dawson, E. Murrell. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay." ''Information Research: An International Electronic Journal'' 6, no 3 (2001): 105-?.
	Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)		*Burnett, Gary, Karen E. Fisher, Crystal Fulton &Julia A. Hersberger. "Channelling Chatman: Questioning the applicability of a research legacy to todays small world realities". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43, no 1 (2006): 1–7. doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197.
			*González-Teruel, A., & F. Abad-García. "The influence of Elfreda Chatman’s theories: a citation context analysis." ''Scientometrics'' 117, no 3 (2018): 1793–1819. doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2915-3
	Thompson, Kim M (2009). "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 50 (2): 119–26. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.		*Pollock, Neil. "Conceptualising the Information Poor: An assessment of the contribution of Elfreda Chatman towards an understanding of behaviour within the context of information poverty." Archived 2011-08-22 at the Wayback Machine (2002)

	=== Related ~~research~~ ===
	~~endleton~~, Victoria ~~(1995)~~. "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor". Reference Librarian. 49–50: 135–145.
	Pendleton, Victoria ~~(1998)~~. "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library". Library Trends. 46 (4): 732.

	Huotari, Maija-Leena ~~(2001)~~. "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior". Library & Information Science Research. 23 (4): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.

	Burnett, Gary; Besant~~, Michele (2001)~~. "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52 (7): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.

	Dawson, E. Murrell ~~(2001)~~. "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay". Information Research: An International Electronic Journal. 6 (3): ~~105~~.

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	'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio. She became the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio. She also argued for positive images of blackness in the Roman Catholic church (Williams 2022, 189 & 197).		'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio. She became the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio. She also argued for positive images of blackness in the Roman Catholic church (Williams 2022, 189 & 197).

	Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University in 1971 and was a primary school principal. In 1976 she earned an her MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed a PhD in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by [[Patrick Wilson]] was on "The diffusion of information among the working poor." She continued to use her exceptional interpersonal skills to conduct studies on information-related behavior in a series of underprivileged communities: poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors.		Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University in 1971 and was a primary school principal. In 1976 she earned an her MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed a PhD in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by [[Patrick Wilson]] was on "The diffusion of information among the working poor." She continued to use her exceptional interpersonal skills and careful attention to methodologies to conduct studies on information-related behavior in a series of underprivileged communities: poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors.

	Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ~~She was teaching~~ at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.		Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 1998 she taught at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	*"A Theory of Life in the Round." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 50, no 3 (1999): 207–217. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<207::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-#.		*"A Theory of Life in the Round." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology'' 50, no 3 (1999): 207–217. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:3<207::aid-asi3>3.3.co;2-#.
	*"Framing social life in theory and research." ''The New Review of Information Behaviour Research'' 1 (Dec 1, 2000): 3–17.		*"Framing social life in theory and research." ''The New Review of Information Behaviour Research'' 1 (Dec 1, 2000): 3–17.





	~~Pendleton, Victoria (1995). "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor". Reference Librarian. 49–50: 135–145.~~
	~~Pendleton, Victoria (1998). "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library". Library Trends. 46 (4): 732.~~

	~~Huotari, Maija-Leena (2001). "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior". Library & Information Science Research. 23 (4): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.~~

	Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele (2001). "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52 (7): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.

	~~Dawson, E. Murrell (2001). "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay". Information Research: An International Electronic Journal. 6 (3): 105.~~

	== Offices ==		== Offices ==
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	*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. NC starting in 1985, and a research award there is named for her.		*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. NC starting in 1985, and a research award there is named for her.
	*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]		*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]
			*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [https://www.ala.org/lrrt/popularresources/tributes/tributetochatman/tributedrelfreda]

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]		*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]
	*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.		*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.
			*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)
	American Library Association. "Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)		*Burnett, Gary, Karen E. Fisher, Crystal Fulton &Julia A. Hersberger. "Channelling Chatman: Questioning the applicability of a research legacy to todays small world realities". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197.

	Burnett, Gary~~; Fisher~~, Karen E.~~; Fulton~~, Crystal~~; Hersberger,~~ Julia A. ~~(2006)~~. "Channelling ~~chatman~~: Questioning the applicability of a research legacy to todays small world realities". Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 43 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1002/meet.1450430197.

	Florida State Times. Obituaries. (2002)		Florida State Times. Obituaries. (2002)
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	Thompson, Kim M (2009). "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 50 (2): 119–26. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.		Thompson, Kim M (2009). "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 50 (2): 119–26. Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.

			=== Related research ===
			endleton, Victoria (1995). "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor". Reference Librarian. 49–50: 135–145.
			Pendleton, Victoria (1998). "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library". Library Trends. 46 (4): 732.

			Huotari, Maija-Leena (2001). "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior". Library & Information Science Research. 23 (4): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.

			Burnett, Gary; Besant, Michele (2001). "Small Worlds: Normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling". Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 52 (7): 536–547. doi:10.1002/asi.1102.abs.

			Dawson, E. Murrell (2001). "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay". Information Research: An International Electronic Journal. 6 (3): 105.

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 *"Diffusion Theory: A review and test of a conceptual model in information diffusion." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 37, no 6 (1986): 377–386. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198611)37:6<377::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c.
 *"Opinion Leadership, Poverty, and Information Sharing." ''Reference Quarterly'' 26, no 3 (1987): 341–353.
 Pendleton, Victoria (1995). "Knowledge Gap, Information-Seeking and the Poor". Reference Librarian. 49–50: 135–145.
 Pendleton, Victoria (1998). "Small World Lives: Implications for the public library". Library Trends. 46 (4): 732.
 Huotari, Maija-Leena (2001). "Using everyday life information seeking to explain organizational behavior". Library & Information Science Research. 23 (4): 351–366. doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00093-7.

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio.		'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' was born in 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio. She became the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio. She also argued for positive images of blackness in the Roman Catholic church (Williams 2022, 189 & 197).
	~~Chatman was~~ the first African American to join the religious order of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. In May 1969 she was arrested with twenty-two others after participating in a welfare rights sit-in at the Mahoning County office in Youngstown, Ohio.

	Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University, her ~~MSLS from~~ Case Western Reserve University~~, and her~~ PhD ~~from~~ the University of California, Berkeley. ~~She~~ was ~~also at one point a member~~ of the ~~Sisters~~ of the ~~Humility of Mary based in Ohio~~.		Chatman received her BS from Youngstown State University in 1971 and was a primary school principal. In 1976 she earned an her MS in Library Science at Case Western Reserve University. She completed a PhD in the School of Library and Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in 1983. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by [[Patrick Wilson]] was on "The diffusion of information among the working poor." She continued to use her exceptional interpersonal skills to conduct studies on information-related behavior in a series of underprivileged communities: poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors.

	Her 1992 book ''The Information World of Retired Women'' won the ACRL Best Book Award in 1995. Chatman participated in the American Library Association's Library Research Round Table during the 1980s and 1990s, and served as its chair in 1993 to 1994.		Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was teaching at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.

	Chatman was a professor at the Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science from 1984 to 1985, then for over a decade at the ~~UNC~~ School of Information and Library Science, ~~starting in 1985~~, ~~and a research award there is named for her~~.

	She was teaching at the School of Information Studies at Florida State University at the time of her death on January 15, 2002, at the age of 59.


	'''Elfreda Annmary Chatman''' (1942-2002) was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups (poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors).

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	=== Life in the round ===		=== Life in the round ===
	~~[edit]~~
	This theory draws on Chatman's study of female prisoners at a maximum-security prison in the northeastern United States. After observing inmates both during and outside of their interactions with the prison's professional employees, Chatman theorizes that the women live "in the round," that is, "within an acceptable degree of approximation and imprecision." Instead of seeking information about the outside world, over which they have no control, prisoners avoid gathering this type of information; in order to survive, they place importance on "daily living patterns, relationships, and issues that come within the prison environment" over which they can exercise agency. In this way, inmates display defensive information seeking behavior.		This theory draws on Chatman's study of female prisoners at a maximum-security prison in the northeastern United States. After observing inmates both during and outside of their interactions with the prison's professional employees, Chatman theorizes that the women live "in the round," that is, "within an acceptable degree of approximation and imprecision." Instead of seeking information about the outside world, over which they have no control, prisoners avoid gathering this type of information; in order to survive, they place importance on "daily living patterns, relationships, and issues that come within the prison environment" over which they can exercise agency. In this way, inmates display defensive information seeking behavior.

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	Chatman saw that these disincentives to information seeking could become cultural norms in small worlds, and that these cultural norms could produce what she labeled information poverty, by perpetuating the avoidance of information that would be useful.		Chatman saw that these disincentives to information seeking could become cultural norms in small worlds, and that these cultural norms could produce what she labeled information poverty, by perpetuating the avoidance of information that would be useful.

	== ~~Works~~ ==		== Publications ==
	~~The diffusion of information among the working poor. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1984.~~		*"Field Research: Methodological Themes". ''Library and Information Science Research'' 6, no 4 (1984): 425–438.
	"Field Research: Methodological Themes". Library and Information Science Research. 6 (4): ~~425–38. 1984~~.		*"Information, Mass Media Use, and the Working Poor." ''Library and Information Science Research'' 7, no 2 (1985): 97–113.
			*"Diffusion Theory: A review and test of a conceptual model in information diffusion." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 37, no 6 (1986): 377–386. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198611)37:6<377::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c.
	"Information, Mass Media Use, and the Working Poor". Library and Information Science Research. 7 (2): 97–113. ~~1985.~~		*"Opinion Leadership, Poverty, and Information Sharing." ''Reference Quarterly'' 26, no 3 (1987): 341–353.

	~~Chatman, Elfreda A. (1986).~~ "Diffusion Theory: A review and test of a conceptual model in information diffusion". Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 37 (6): 377–386. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(198611)37:6<377::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-c.

	"Opinion Leadership, Poverty, and Information Sharing". Reference Quarterly. 26 (3): ~~341–53. 1987~~.

	"The Information World of Low-Skilled Workers". Library and Information Science Research. 9 (4): 265–83. 1987.		"The Information World of Low-Skilled Workers". Library and Information Science Research. 9 (4): 265–83. 1987.
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	Dawson, E. Murrell (2001). "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay". Information Research: An International Electronic Journal. 6 (3): 105.		Dawson, E. Murrell (2001). "Reference group theory with implications for information studies: a theoretical essay". Information Research: An International Electronic Journal. 6 (3): 105.

			== Offices ==
			*American Library Association. Library Research Round Table. Active during the 1980s and 1990s, and Chair 1993-1994.

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
	~~"Awards"~~. School of Information and Library Science. ~~Retrieved 2024-09-20~~.		*Association of College and Research Libraries. Best Book Award, 1995, for ''The Information World of Retired Women''.
			*School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. NC starting in 1985, and a research award there is named for her.
	*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]		*The [[ASIST\|Association for Information Science and Technology]] confers the Elfreda A. Chatman Research Award for research proposals in information behavior. [https://www.asist.org/sig/siguse/sig-use-awards/elfreda-a-chatman-research-award/]

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]		*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]
	*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ~~<nowiki>~~ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7~~</nowiki>. OCLC 1294510576~~.		*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.

	American Library Association. "Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)		American Library Association. "Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)

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	*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]		*"Elfreda Chatman." ''Wikipedia'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfreda_Chatman]
	*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.		*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.
	*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)
	*Solomon, Paul. "Rounding and dissonant grounds." in: ''Theories of information behavior'', ed. by Karen Fisher, S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2005, pp 308-312.		*Solomon, Paul. "Rounding and dissonant grounds." in: ''Theories of information behavior'', ed. by Karen Fisher, S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2005, pp 308-312.
	*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.		*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.

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	*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.		*Williams, Shannen Dee. (2022). Subversive habits : Black Catholic nuns in the long African American freedom struggle. Durham. ISBN 978-1-4780-2281-7.
	*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)		*American Library Association. "Library Research Round Table Honors the Contributions of Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman." 2002. [Tribute to Dr. Elfreda A. Chatman". (2002)
			*Solomon, Paul. "Rounding and dissonant grounds." in: ''Theories of information behavior'', ed. by Karen Fisher, S. Erdelez & L. McKechnie. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2005, pp 308-312.
	*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.		*Fulton, Crystal. "An Ordinary Life in the Round: Elfreda Annmary Chatman." ''Libraries & the Cultural Record'' 45, no 2 (2010): 238–259. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0122. S2CID 142616617.
	*Thompson, Kim M. "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 50, no 2 (2009): 119–26. ?Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.		*Thompson, Kim M. "Remembering Elfreda Chatman: A Champion of Theory Development in Library and Information Science Education." ''Journal of Education for Library and Information Science'' 50, no 2 (2009): 119–26. ?Archived from the original on 2012-04-25.