Contact Information

Expertise

• Patent Information
• Chemical information
• Scientific publishing
• Bibliometrics

Education

• MLIS, University of Michigan (1994)
• BA, cum laude, Boston University (1989)

Publications

White, M. (in press). Using Citation Analysis to Explore the Information Needs of Graduate Students Affiliated with a Fuel Cell Research Center. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

White, M. (2012). Patent Classification Reform: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Using the Patent Literature. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.

White, M. (2010). Patent searching: Back to the future. First Annual Conference of the Canadian Engineering Education Association, Kingston, Ontario.

White, M. (2009). Patents and patent searching. In M. J. Bates, & M. N. Maack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information science. New York: CRC, Taylor and Francis.

White, M. (2008). US alien property custodian patent documents: A legacy prior art collection from world war II – part 2. statistics. World Patent Information, 30(1), 34-42. doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2007.05.002

White, M. (2007). US alien property custodian patent documents: A legacy prior art collection from world war II – part 1. history. World Patent Information, 29(4), 339-345. doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2007.05.003

White, M. (2006). esp@cenet: Europe's network of patent databases. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 47

White, M. (2005). Note Concerning U.S. Application Serial Numbers and Series Codes," Patent Information Users Group Newsletter, Fall, 19-21. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/263

White M. (2002). "World Intellectual Property Organization: a Web Site Review," Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, 8(1), 71-78.

White, M. (2001). "Patents for Victory! Disseminating Enemy Technical Information During World War II," Science & Technology Libraries, 22 (1/2), 5-22.

Affiliations

Library Advisory Board, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011-present

American Society for Engineering Education, 1995-present

• Past Chair, 2012-13, Engineering Libraries Division
• Chair, 2011-12, ELD
• Program Chair, 2010-2011, ELD
• Treasurer, 2009-2010, ELD
• Director, 2006-2008, ELD

• Chemistry Division
• Engineering Division
• Physics, Astronomy and Math Division

Committees

• E-books Project Group, 2012-
• Past-chair, Queen's University Librarians and Archivists, 2012-13
• Chair, Queen's University Librarians and Archivists, 2011-12
• Electronic Resources Working Group, 2011-
• Renewal, Continuing Appointment and Promotion Committee for Librarians, 2010-11
• Past-chair, Queen's University Librarians and Archivists, 2010-11
• Chair, Queen's University Librarians and Archivists, 2009-10
• Team Leader, Electronic Gateway Team, 2007-10

Subject Areas

Astronomy
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Engineering Physics
Patents
Physics

• Patent Searching: Tools, Resources and Approaches, Guelph University, February 28, 2013
• Introduction to Patents for Chemistry Librarians and Information Professionals (webinar), SLA Chemistry Division, April 30, 2012
• Introduction to Patents for Librarians and Information Professionals, University of British Columbia, June 24, 2011