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Ericka Patillo

Professor of Practice

Expertise

Academic libraries; Library management and administration; Organizational behavior and culture; LIS education; Music librarianship.

Education

BA, Music History, Old Dominion University

MSLS, UNC-Chapel Hill

PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill

About

Ericka Patillo

Dr. Ericka J. Patillo has been a library leader in the higher education arena for more than 20 years. She has been a music librarian; a public services manager; a senior level administrator; and a teacher, adviser, and researcher. Her research includes examinations of the academic library middle manager role and the impact of role conflict and role ambiguity. She honors her ancestors and their ways of knowing while working to co-create an academic library culture that is inclusive, collaborative and authentic.

Publications

Ahmed, S., Clemens, R., Murillo, A., Patillo, E. (2022). “Does it matter: Have BLM protests opened spaces for collective action inLAMs?” In “Library and Information Studies and the Mattering of Black Lives,” eds Noble, S., Caswell, M., Sutherland, T., and Roberts, S. Special Issue (Vol. 4), Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies.

Fisher, Z., Krueger, S., Malamud, R. G. and Patillo, E. What It Means to Be Out: Queer, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming Identities in Library Work In Baer, A., Cahoy, E., and Schroeder, R. (Eds.) (2019). Libraries Promoting Reﬂective Dialogue in a Time of Political Polarization. ACRL Publications: Chicago.

Patillo, EJ, Moran, BB and Morgan, JC (2009). “The Job Itself: The Eﬀects of Functional Units on Work Autonomy among Public and Academic Librarians.” Library Trends, 58(2), Fall 2009, pp. 276-290.

Awards

Beta Phi Mu

Chancellor’s Doctoral Candidacy Award

Fellow, National Science Foundation, Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, 2008 – 2009

Phi Kappa Phi

Courses

INLS 151: Retrieving and Analyzing Information

INLS 513: Resource Selection and Evaluation

INLS 551: History of Libraries

INLS 585: Management for Information Professionals

INLS 746: Music Librarianship

INLS 782: Library Assessment

Email

patillo@unc.edu