Neurohr, Karen

Dr. Karen Neurohr is a Professor with the OOHRP where she helped launch the library’s early oral history project focused on chronicling the rich heritage, history, and traditions of OSU. She is the project leader for “Remembering Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel: Okie Poet and Dust Bowl Emigrant.” Her research also has included first-generation undergraduate library users’ experiences and perceptions of the academic library, and students’ and faculty perceptions of library service quality. She is the departmental project lead for ListenOK, an outreach initiative for creating and maintaining an online inventory of oral history interviews held in Oklahoma repositories. Since joining the OSU Library in 2006, Neurohr has had extensive experience with community outreach. She initiated the award-winning Science Café OSU series of programs, and she is a scholar for Oklahoma Humanities’ ‘Let’s Talk About It’ programs. For the Oral History Association, Neurohr chaired the Mason Multi-Media Awards Committee and served on the Membership Committee. She co-chairs the OSU UClub’s Community Relations Committee. Neurohr holds a doctorate in Higher Education from Oklahoma State University, and an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from North Texas State University. In 2020, she completed The Oral History Center’s Advanced Oral History Summer Institute from the University of California at Berkeley.