• Collection development, liaison duties, instruction, and reference

Education and Social Sciences Librarian

• Subject Specialist- Educational Curriculum, PreK-12 & Education K-12
• Liaison to College of Education Department of Teaching Learning and Culture (TLAC)

Education

• BA  University of Oklahoma
• MA  University of Michigan
• MS in Library Science, University of North Texas
• Graduate Academic Certificate(GAC) in Library Services for Youth, University of North Texas

Research Interests

• Library History
• Children's and Young Adult Literature
• Academic libraries and Digital Natives

  Publications

• Thornton, Elaine.  "iTunes University and ARL Academic Libraries"   Journal of Web Librarianship 3(3),   July-September 2009.  263-272.
• Thornton, Elaine.  "Globalizing Children's Literature in Academic Libraries Using Automatic Acquisition" Collection Building 30(1) 2011. 47-52.