Anna H. Perrault is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Perrault holds an M.S. in Library Science from Louisiana State University and the Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the Florida State University. She is a recipient of the ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Library Acquisitions Practice and Theory Research Award, and the ALCTS “Best of LRTS” Award. Perrault conducts research, publishes, and consults on collection analysis and assessment projects in academic libraries.
Articles
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research: An Information Needs Assessment for a Globally Distributed Interdisciplinary Community (with Todd A. Chavez, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummett), Publishing Research Quarterly (2007)
A survey of the global karst community was conducted in 2006. The survey was distributed...
Digital Dilemmas: The Transformation of Scholarly Discourse in the Humanities, International Journal of the Humanities (2006)
The last two decades of the 20th century brought rapid and cataclysmic change to the...
The Role of WorldCat in Resources Sharing in The New Dynamics and Economics of Collection Development, Pt. 1, Collection Management (2002)
The 30th anniversary of WorldCat was celebrated in 2001. At that time, there were 45...
The Florida Community College Statewide Collection Assessment Project: Outcomes and Impact (with Tina Adams, Jeannie Dixon, and Rhonda Smith), College & Research Libraries (2002)
A collection assessment project was conducted in 1998 of the twenty-eight community college library/Library Resource...
The Integration of Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes and Teaching Effectiveness (with Vicki Gregory and James Carey), JELIS (2002)
This paper reports the conceptual phase of the USF School of Library and Information Science’s...
Contributions to Books
Microforms: Marriages, Mergers, and Migrations, Migrations in Society, Culture, and the Library: Proceedings of the WESS European Conference (2005)
“Migration” is a term used to describe the reformatting of materials or the moving of...
Looking from the outside in: An evidence-based model for website usability assessment (with Vicki L. Gregory and Sonia Ramirez Wohlmuth), Tendencias de Investigacion en Organizacion del Conocimiento: Trends in Knowledge Organization Research (2003)
The Printed Book: Still in Need of CCD, Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development (1999)
The present state of the printed book in the "national collection" or commons of resources...
An Exploration of the Use of Push Technology in a Consortium for Electronic Publishing (with Vicki Gregory), Proceedings of the 13th Computers in Libraries (1998)
Telecommuting and Intranets: The Role of Special Libraries, Review of the Florida & Caribbean Chapter (1996)
Collection Analysis and Assessment Projects
Florida University Libraries Collection Analysis Project (with Diana Loper), Gainesville, FL: FCLA (2008)
Collection analysis for 26 Florida University Libraries using OCLC Collection Analysis product.
The SUL project...
Florida Community College Collection Assessment Report (with Richard Madaus, Ann Armbrister, Jeannie Dixon, and Heather Thuotte-Pierson), Tallahassee, FL: Community College Center for Library Automation (2002)
In 2002 a study was conducted of community college collections in Florida as a follow-up...
Global Collective Resources: A Study of Monographic Bibliographic Records in WorldCat., OCLC/ALISE Research Grant (2002)
In 2001, WorldCat, the primary international bibliographic utility, contained 45 million records with over 750...
Unpublished Papers
Presentations
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research – A Follow-up (with Todd A. Chavez, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummit), GL9: 9th International Conference on Grey Literature (2007)
This presentation updates research findings reported in "The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global...
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research (with Todd A. Chavez, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummit), GL8: 8th International Conference on Grey Literature (2006)
This presentation presents the findings of a survey of karst researchers from around the globe....
WorldCat=Worldwide, 2nd International Conference on the Future of the Book 2004_Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era (2004)
Think Global, Act Local: The Challenges of Taking the Website Global (with Vicki Gregory), The Information Age: Challenges and Opportunities -- Worldwide Conference on Special Librarianship, Special Libraries Association (2000)
The Florida Distance Learning Reference and Referral Center: A Study of User Satisfaction and Some Provider Reflections (with Rhonda Smith, Todd Chavez, and Stephanie Race), Internet Librarian (1998)
Archival Materials/Miscellaneous
Professor Emerita, 2008 – School of Library and Information Science, University of South Florida. Alumni, 1994 – Florida State University. (2008)
2003 Distinguished Alumni, 2003 Promoted Faculty Award, 2008 Emeritus Faculty Award.
Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society, President, 2005-2007 (2007)
Beta Phi Mu documents include: Newsletter (Message from President), Membership Certificate, Newsletter (Perrault/Vice-President), Beta Phi...
Study Confirms Increased Homogeneity In Academic Library Acquisitions (1995)
Article based on “The Changing Print Resource Base of Academic Libraries in the United States:...
Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993 (1993)
Librarian, Louisiana State University Libraries, 1969-1993: Remote Information and Electronic Services Reference Services Division Collection...