Research Interests

• Cataloguing and Metadata Management
• Reference and user services
• Information Literacy
• Information technology 

Select Publications

• Nicholas, Pauline, Jerdaine Sterling, Rochelle Davis, Jessica Lewis, Faith McKoy-Johnson, McKoy-Johnson, Karlene Nelson,Yolanda Tugwell and Karen Tyrell. (2015). “Bringing the Library to you!” The Halls of Residence Librarian Program at the University of the West Indies, Mona Library.”  New Library World,116 (5/6): 316-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/NLW-06-2014-0080 

• Nelson, Karlene. (2013).”Exploring the Use of Text Messaging to Enhance Reference Services The University of the West Indies Library, Mona Campus.” Caribbean Library Journal, 1(1): 1-18.   http://journals.sta.uwi.edu/clj/papers/dec13/nelson_dec2013.pdf
• Nelson, K.  (2016, June).  Building library leadership capacity through mentorship:  An exploratory study of early career academic librarians at The University of the West Indies, Mona Library.  XLVI Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), Pétion-Ville, Haiti. https://issuu.com/acuril2016haiti/docs/proceedings_of_the_acuril_xlvi_hait
• Manassi, T.  Lashley, B.P. & Nelson, K. (2015, June).   Bridging the chasm between policy and practice: Retooling practitioners to effectively address digital rights management issues presently being faced at the University of the West Indies Mona Library. XLV Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), Suriname.  https://issuu.com/acuril/docs/proceedings_acuril2015_suriname
• Robinson, K.P., Nelson, K.S. and Lewis, J.C. (2018).  Thesis consultation: A review. Reference Services Review, 46 (1) : 16-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-04-2017-0009
• Haiti. https://issuu.com/acuril2016haiti/docs/proceedings_of_the_acuril_xlvi_hait

 Awards

• UWI Long Service Award,  2004 and 2010