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Elfreda Chatman
1942–2002
United States
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Biography
Elfreda Annmary Chatman (1942–2002) was an African-American researcher, professor, and former Catholic religious sister. She was well known for her ethnographic approaches in researching information seeking behaviors among understudied or minority groups (poor people, the elderly, retired women, female inmates, and janitors).
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