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Elfreda A. Chatman

Elfreda A. Chatman taught for more than a decade at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, which gives a student research award in her name. She studied how people in underprivileged communities, among them women in prison, seek and share information.

Source: Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information: Elfreda Chatman

–2002 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Elfreda A. Chatman joins the faculty of UNC's School of Information and Library Science After a year at Louisiana State University, Chatman taught at UNC's School of Information and Library Science for more than a decade before moving to Florida State University.Search the index · Biographical Directory of Documentation and Information: Elfreda Chatman

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