Publications

Doctoral Thesis

  1. "Social networks, social capital, and the use of information and communications technology in socially excluded communities: a study of community groups in Manchester, England." 2005, University of Michigan. Earned the annual Eugene Garfield/ALISE award for best dissertation.

Books Authored

  1. Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams.  Roots and Flowers: The Life and Work of Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2014. introduction

Volumes Edited or Co-edited

  1. Abdul Alkalimat, Doug Gills, and Kate Williams, eds. Job?Tech: The Technological Revolution and its Impact on Society. Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books, 1995. introduction
  2. Kate Williams, Han Shenglong 韩圣龙, Yan Hui 闫慧, and Abdul Alkalimat, eds. Community Informatics in China and the US: Theory and Research. Beijing: National Library Press, 2012. buy the book  introduction  chapter 7
  3. Kate Williams, ed. Library Trends Special Issue: Community Informatics in China, Volume 62 Number 1, Summer 2013.  pdfs

Book Chapters

  1. Abdul Alkalimat, Doug Gills, and Kate Williams, "Introduction," pages 1-5 in Job?Tech: The Technological Revolution and its Impact on Society, Abdul Alkalimat, Doug Gills, and Kate Williams, editors. Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books, 1995.
  2. Abdul Alkalimat and Kate Williams, "Social Capital and Cyberpower in the African American Community: A Case Study of a Community Technology Center in the Dual City." pages 178-204 in Community Informatics: Shaping Computer Mediated Social Relations, Leigh Keeble and Brian Loader, editors. London: Routledge, 2001.
  3. Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "A Census of Public Computing in Toledo, Ohio," pages 85-110 in Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civic Society in Cyberspace, Doug Schuler and Peter Day, editors. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. Translated into French and reprinted as: Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "L'espace Public Numérique á Toledo (Ohio)," pages 21-40 in Géographie et Cultures, Number 46 (special issue on public internet access and new sociabilities), Summer 2003.
  4. Kate Williams, "Community Informatics Memory as Archive: Assembling and Using the Records of the Technology Opportunities Program (USA), 1994-2005" pages 343-351 in Constructing and Sharing Memory: Community Informatics, Identity and Empowerment, Graeme Johanson and Larry Stillman, editors. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
  5. Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat, "Cyberpower," pages 177-179 in Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, Douglas Schuler, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2008.
  6. Kate Williams and Joan C. Durrance, "Community Informatics," pages 1202-1208 in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, Marcia Bates and Mary Niles Maack, editors, Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 2009.
  7. Kate Williams, "Rethinking Digital Divide Research: Datasets and Theoretical Frameworks," pages 109-127 in Main Fronts of Information Science and Information Management: Forum on Information Science and Information Management, Peking University (情报学与信息管理的主战场:北京大学情报学与 信息管理论坛文集, in English and Chinese), Chen Jianlong, Shen Jing, Zhou Qingshan, and Chen Wenguang, editors, Peking University Press, 2011.
  8. Kate Williams, Han Shenglong 韩圣龙, Yan Hui 闫慧, and Abdul Alkalimat, "Introduction," pages 8-19 in Community Informatics in China and the US: Theory and Research, Kate Williams, Han Shenglong 韩圣龙, Yan Hui 闫慧, and Abdul Alkalimat, editors. Beijing: National Library Press, 2012.
  9. Abdul Alkalimat, Kate Williams, Yan Hui 闫慧, and Han Shenglong 韩圣龙, “创建有中国特色的信息社会 Toward Building the Information Society with Chinese Characteristics,” pages 105-116 in Community Informatics in China and the US: Theory and Research, Kate Williams, Han Shenglong 韩圣龙, Yan Hui 闫慧, and Abdul Alkalimat, editors. Beijing: National Library Press, 2012.
  10. Kate Williams, "Cybernavigating," in An Illinois Sampler: Talking about Teaching and Research on the Prairie, Antoinette Burton and Mary-Ann Winkelmes, editors. University of Illinois Press, 2014, in press.

Journal Articles

  1. Kate Williams, “A Curriculum on Jobs and Technology,” CPSR Journal, Volume 14 Number 1, Winter/Spring 1996. Page 11.
  2. Kate Williams, “Libraries as ISPs.” Ohio Libraries, Special issue on “The Library of the Future,” Spring 2000. Page 34.
  3. Kate Williams, “Literacy and Computer Literacy: Analyzing the NRC's ‘Being Fluent with Information Technology,’” Journal of Literacy and Technology, Volume 3 Number 1, Spring 2003. http://literacyandtechnology.org/volume3/literacy.katewilliams.pdf.
  4. Kate Williams, “Research Note: Across the US, 85,000 to 144,000 Public Computing Sites.” First Monday, Volume 8 Number 4, April 2003. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1046/967.
  5. Kate Williams and Joan C. Durrance, “Social Networks and Social Capital: Rethinking Theory in Community Informatics,” Journal of Community Informatics, Volume 4 Number 3, 2008. http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/465/430.
  6. Kate Williams and Hui Yan, “Toward Global Measurement of the Information Society: A U.S.-China Comparison of National Government Surveys,” First Monday, Volume 14 Number 10, October 2009. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2576/2306.
  7. Kate Williams, “Social Networks, Social Capital, and the Use of Information Technology in the Urban Village: A Study of Community Groups in Manchester, England,” Chinese Journal of Library and Information Science, Volume 4 Numbers 3/4, 2011. Pages 35-48.
  8. Aiko Takazawa and Kate Williams, “Communities in Disasters: Helpless or Helping?” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Volume 10 Numbers 3-4, 2011. Pages 429-440.
  9. Adrian Kok, Kate Williams, and Hui Yan, “Skyping with Seniors: An Academic, Professional, and Community Collaboration between China and the US,” Journal of Community Informatics, Volume 8 Number 1, 2012. http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/896/830.
  10. Kate Williams, “Informatics Moments,” Library Quarterly, Volume 82 Number 1, January 2012. Pages 47-73.
  11. Tiffany Veinot and Kate Williams, “Following the ‘Community’ Thread from Sociology to Information Behavior and Informatics: Uncovering Theoretical Continuities and Research Opportunities,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Advances in Information Science section), Volume 63 Issue 5, May 2012. Pages 847-864.
  12. Kate Williams, “The Information Revolution in Illinois: A Community Informatics Perspective” (in Chinese), Journal of Library Science in China, Chinese language edition, Volume 39 Issue 205, May 2013. Pages 49-62.
    Reprinted in the original English as: Kate Williams, “The Information Revolution in Illinois: A Community Informatics Perspective,” Journal of Library Science in China, English language edition, December 2013, in press.
  13. Kate Williams, Noah Lenstra, Shameem Ahmed, Qiyuan Liu, “Research Note: Measuring the Globalization of Knowledge: The Case of Community Informatics,” First Monday, Volume 18 Number 8, August 2013. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4347/3737.
  14. Kate Williams, “Introduction to Special Issue: ‘Community Informatics in China,’” Library Trends, Volume 62, Number 1, Summer 2013, in press. [twelve empirical papers]
  15. Zorica Nedović-Budić, Kate Williams, and Da-Mi Maeng, “Becoming uCity: The Case of Chicago,” Journal of Urban Management, 2014, in press.

Creative Works

  1. Damian Duffy, John Jennings, and Kate Williams, Cybernavigator Stories: An eChicago Publication. [comic]. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2011. online

Bulletins, Reports, and Conference Proceedings

  1. Kate Williams. “Profile of an Information Community: H-Net. Part of the Helpseeking in an Electronic World project, Joan C. Durrance and Karen E. Pettigrew, principal investigators, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000.
  2. Kate Williams. “What is the Digital Divide?” pages 1-25 in D3: Proceedings of the Digital Divide Doctoral Students Workshop, August 2001. Edited by Kate Williams. University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2001.
  3. Kate Williams. “Literacy and Computer Literacy: The Cuban Experience.” A photo report on a library tour of Cuba. [“Alfabetización y computadorización: La experiencia cubana.” Informe de fotos sobre un viaje de bibliotecarios a Cuba.] Monica Atkins, translator. University of Michigan School of Information Alliance for Community Technology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2001. http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~katewill/cuba/
  4. Kate Williams, editor. D3: Proceedings of the Digital Divide Doctoral Students Workshop, August 2001. University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan. 2001. 452 pages.
  5. Kate Williams.  Toledo Spiders: Finding Aid to a Joint Archive of the W. J. Murchison Community Center and the University of Toledo Africana Studies Program,” University of Toledo (Ohio), 2002. 6 pages.
  6. Kate Williams, Rebecca Bizonet, Jennifer Hill, and Ursula Arnold. “Finding Aid for Technology Opportunities Program Data Archive, 1994-2005,” Special Collections Library, University of Michigan, 2006. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-top?rgn=main;view=text
  7. Kate Williams. “Memory and Archives in Community Informatics: Assembling and Using the Records of the U.S. Technology Opportunities Program, 1994-2005,” TOP Bulletin (University of Illinois GSLIS) 1. 2007. 4 pages.
  8. Kate Williams. “Using the TOP Data Archive to Study Human Resilience: How Community-Based Organizations Used Social Networks and Information Technology for Hurricane Recovery,” TOP Bulletin (University of Illinois GSLIS) 2. 2007. 4 pages.
  9. Boshra Jamali and Kate Williams. “A Bibliography and Webliography of Arab Chicago,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 3. 2008. 4 pages.
  10. Christopher Ritzo and Kate Williams. “CT on E: Beginning a Global Community Technology and Community Media Portal,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 4. 2008. 4 pages.
  11. Brooke Bahnsen, Eizaburo Okuizumi, and Kate Williams. “A Bibliography and Webliography of Japanese Chicago,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 5. 2008. 6 pages.
  12. Brooke Bahnsen, Héctor Hernández, and Kate Williams. “A Bibliography and Webliography of Mexican Chicago,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 6. 2008. 8 pages.
  13. Brooke Bahnsen, Kate Williams, and Ann P. Bishop. “A Bibliography and Webliography of Puerto Rican Chicago,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 7. 2008. 6 pages.
  14. Kristin LoDolce, Moustafa Ayad, Jeff Ginger, Steven McCauley, Alyson Thompson, Kate Williams, & Boshra Jamali. “Prairienet and Community Networking: An Annotated Bibliography,” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 8. 2008. 8 pages.
  15. Kate Williams, editor. eChicago 2007: Proceedings of the Inaugural eChicago Symposium Held at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, April 20, 2007. University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2008. 361 pages.
  16. Hui Yan and Kate Williams. “A Bibliography and Webliography of Chinese Chicago” Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 10. 2009. 8 pages.
  17. Kate Williams, editor. eChicago 2008: Proceedings of the Second eChicago Symposium Held at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, April 3-4, 2008. University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2009. 190 pages.
  18. Kate Williams, editor. eChicago 2009: Cybernavigating Our Communities. Proceedings of the Third eChicago Symposium Held at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois April 2-3, 2009. Published by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2010. 166 pages.
  19. Kate Williams. “Navigating the Informatics Moment: A Preliminary Research Report on the CyberNavigators Program at the Chicago Public Library.” April 2010. 126 pages.
  20. Kate Williams. Chieh Li-Chin, translator. “Twenty-six Powerful Ideas from Community Informatics at Illinois.” In English and Chinese. Community Informatics Lab Notes (University of Illinois GSLIS) 13. 2010. 4 pages.
  21. Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, Han Shenglong, and Hui Yan, editors. “Seeking Truth From Facts: Studies in Community Informatics.” Proceedings of the First Community Informatics Summer School in China. Beijing: Peking University Department of Information Management. 2011. 339 pages.
  22. Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, Han Shenglong, and Hui Yan, editors. “Seeking Truth From Facts: Studies in Community Informatics.” Proceedings of the Second Community Informatics Summer School in China. Beijing: Peking University Department of Information Management. 2012. 346 pages.
  23. Kate Williams, Abdul Alkalimat, and Abigail Sackmann, editors. “The Community Anchor Institutions of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: Technology Use by Non-Profit and Public Organizations in the Broadband Moment. Volumes 1 and Volume 2.” University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Department of African American Studies, the Center for Digital Inclusion, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Urbana Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B). 2012. 721 pages.
  24. Abdul Alkalimat, Ronald Bailey, Sam Byndom, Desiree McMillion, LaTasha Nesbitt, Kate Williams, and Brian Zelip. “African American Studies 2013: A National Web-Based Survey.” University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Department of African American Studies. 2013. 29 pages.

Book Reviews

  1. Kate Williams, “Networked Neighbourhoods: The Connected Community in Context,” Patrick Purcell, editor, in Information, Communication, and Society, volume 12 number 8, 2009, Pages 1265-1267.