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Mary Carrol is the Associate Course Director in the School of information studies. Her responsibilities include assiting the  Course Director meet needs of students in the school and taking a lead role in the Bachelor of Information Studies (BIS) , Master of Information Studies  (MIS) and Graduate Certificate in Audiovisual Archiving courses.  Prior to employment at CSU  she was an Early Career Development Fellow  at RMIT University, Melbourne and also worked for many years in LIS Vocational Education. She has published in the area of history of librarianship, vocational education and library education and LIS pedagogy. Her PhD was both an historical and contemporary investigation into the role sectoral educational divisions have played in the construction of LIS professional identity in Australia. Currently she is undertaking research for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research into the provision of information infrastructure by private training organisations in Australia .

Research interests

• The provision of information infrastructure and its relationship to access and equity
• The role of education in defining work place structures in Australia
• Relationships between vocational education and higher education particularly with regards to success and failure, issues of articulation and professional engagement
• History of vocational education in Australia
• History of education for the library industry in Australia 
• Libraries and their role in the community and as social and cultural institutions
• The impact of outside agencies, particularly philanthropic agencies have had on the Australian education landscape 

Recent Grants

• 2012 National Centre for Vocational Education Research Early Career Research Grant ($30,000)
• 2011 Early Career Development Fellow in the School of Business, IT and Logistics at RMIT University, Melbourne  
• 2009/10 ALTC project led by QUT Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the 21st century

• American Library Association (ALA)
• American Library and Information Education Association (ALISE)
• Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES)
• Mechanics Institutes Victoria Society (MIV)
• State Library of Victoria Foundation

• Carroll, M, Kerr,P, Musa, A, Afszal, W (2012) ‘Commonwealth of Uncertainty: How British and American Professional Models of Library Practice have Shaped LIS Education in Selected Former British Colonies and Dominions’  IFLA World Library and Information Congress Library Theory and Research, Education and Training and LIS Education in Developing Countries Special Interest Group, 11-17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland, http://conference.ifla.org/sites/default/files/files/papers/wlic2012/105-carroll-en.pdf
• Reynolds, S. and Carroll, M. (2012). ‘Collaborators or Competitors? The Roles of School Libraries, Classroom Libraries, Teachers and Teacher-Librarians in Literacy Development’ Synergy, v.10 n.1
• Carroll, M. and Reynolds, S. (2012 in press). ‘Disaffection in the library’: shaping a living centre of learning’ History of education review
• Combes, B, Hanische, J, Carroll, M. and Hughes, H. (2011). ‘Student voices: Re-conceptualising and re-positioning Australian library and information science education for the twenty-first century’, The international information and library review v. 43, n.3 pp.137-138
• Abu, R., Grace, M. and Carroll, M. (2011) ‘The Role of the Rural Public Library in Community Development and Empowerment’, The International Journal of the Book, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp.63-74
• Carroll M. and Murray, J (2010) ‘Swirling Students: A Study of Professional and Vocational Training Avenues for the Library and Information Industry’ Library Trends v 59 n.1-2, pp.188-207
• Murray, J and Carroll M. (2010) ‘Entry into the library and information industry: Choices and decisions’  Australian Academic and Research Libraries v.41  n.1 2010, pp. 14-25
• Carroll M. (2009) ‘Republic of the Learned: The Role of Libraries in the Promotion of a US Democratic Vision’  History of Education(UK), v. 38, n.6 November, pp. 809 - 823

Presentations

• Combes, B and Carroll, M. Are we there yet? eLearning in Library and Information Science course in Australia. Australian Information Education Symposium 24 June 2012 University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
• Reynolds, S, Carroll, M and Welch B. Passionate Practitioners: engaging not just the head but also the heart.  Australian Information Education Symposium 24 June 2012 University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
• Carroll, Mary ‘Sustainability through collaboration: informing the future direction of Australian library and information   science education’ ALISE annual conference - Extending our reach: Expanding horizons, January 17-20, 2012, Dallas, Texas
• Carroll, Mary 'Reading to Reform’ ANZHES annual conference, 2011, Auckland, New Zealand
• Partridge H, M. Carroll, J. Hanisch, M, Henninger, C. Yates. ‘Building the profession together: towards holistic library and information science education’ ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Conference 2011 Back to Basics, Perth, Australia 12 - 16 September 2011
• Carroll, M ‘Re-conceptualising and re-positioning education for the library and information industries in Australia’ The Journal of Vocational Education and Training Ninth International Conference Worcester College, Oxford, 8th – 10th July 2011
• Combes,B, Hanisch,J, Carroll,M, Hughes, H. 'Student voices: Re-conceptualizing and Re-positioning Australian Library and Information Science Education for the Twenty-first Century' Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities 22-24 June 2011, Pullman Putrajaya Lakeside, Putrajaya, MALAYSIA 

Book Chapters

• Carroll, Mary and Reynolds, Sue (in press) ' The Great Classification Battle of 1910: A tale of ‘blunders and bizzareries’ at the Melbourne Public Library' in Rayward, W. Boyd (ed) Information Beyond Borders (Ashgate).
• Carroll M. (2010) ‘The impact of overseas agencies on the development of education for Australian library workers’ in Collections, Characters & Communities: the shaping of libraries in Australia and New Zealand
• Carroll, M (2011) ‘Defining Difference: The ‘Noble and Less noble’ traditions of education and training in Australia’ Advances in Librarianship Volume 33, 2011