Elfreda Chatman
Elfreda Chatman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1942 |
| Died | January 15, 2002 (aged 59–60) |
| Occupation | Information science professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Youngstown State University (B.S., 1971) Case Western Reserve University (M.S., 1976) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1983) |
| Thesis | The Diffusion of Information among the Working Poor (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick Wilson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Library and information science |
| Institutions | Louisiana State University UNC School of Information and Library Science Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies |
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).