Amanda "Mandy" Swygart-Hobaugh is an Assistant Professor and the Librarian for Sociology, Anthropology, and Gerontology at the Georgia State University Library. She hails from the Hoosier state (Indiana), where she earned her B.S. in Human Development/Family Studies and her Masters of Library Science (M.L.S.) from Indiana University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Purdue University. Her professional background has been quite varied, including working as an academic librarian in a small, liberal-arts college and university settings, as a public librarian, and here and there as an adjunct professor in women's studies, sociology, and library science.
Library & Information Science
Syllabus - "Information - Power to the People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar) (2011)
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating….” Kofi Annan
Guided by this notion and the sociological...
A Citation Analysis of the Quantitative/Qualitative Methods Debate's Reflection in Sociology Research: Implications for Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services (2004)
This study examines how the social sciences’ debate between qualitative and quantitative methods is reflected...
The Internet and the Velocity of Scholarly Journal Publishing (with Rob Kling Ph.D.), Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (2002)
Sociology/Gender/Sexuality
Syllabus - "Information - Power to the People" (Georgia State University, Honors Freshman Seminar) (2011)
“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating….” Kofi Annan
Guided by this notion and the sociological...