Michael White

Michael White

Preferred Pronoun
He/Him
Job title
Head Engineering and Science Librarian
Location
Douglas Library

Mi

Working Unit
Engineering & Science

Michael White’s Bio

  • Patent Information 
  • Chemical Information 
  • Scientific publishing 
  • Bibliometrics

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

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 

Special Libraries Association, 2002-present 

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

Patent Information Users Group, 1998-present 

Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association, 1995-present 

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2013-present 

  • Science-Technology Division

  • Gordon, I., Meindl, P., Sizgeti, K., and White, M. (2018). Information Seeking Behaviors, Attitudes, and Choices of Academic Chemists. Science & Technology Libraries, 37, 2, 130-151.
  • White, M. (2017). The History of the Engineering Libraries Division, Part 2: 1960 to 2017. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio. 
  • White, M. (2016). The History of the Engineering Libraries Division, Part 1: 1893 to 1960. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
  • White, M. (2015). Patent "Sightings": A Comparative Analysis of Patent Citation Search Tools Using Case Studies from the Engineering Literature. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington.
  • White, M. (2014). (In)Visible Me? An Empirical Study of Engineering Librarian Online Profiles. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
  • White, M. (2013). Chemical patents. In J. Currano & D. Roth (Eds.), Chemical information for chemists: A primer. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. 
  • White, M. (2013). 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.
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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.
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