Anita Coleman
Adjunct Lecturer
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois; MSEd, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Technology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; MSLIS and BA, English Literature, University of Madras, India
Other professional appointments
Secretary, Board of Directors, Institute for Knowledge Organization and Structure
Chair, ALISE Taxonomy Ad Hoc Committee
Consultant, Powering Social Equity, Irvine, CA
Research focus
I study the ethical, socio-cultural, and historical dimensions of knowledge organization and human information behavior at their intersections with technology and democracy. My current research develops adaptive infophilia, a theory of human information engagement applied across four domains: AI and information ethics (freedom of intelligence and infrastructure literacy as the successors to intellectual freedom and information literacy); information behaviors (wellbeing, flourishing, bright patterns with infophilic information styles); knowledge organization (LIS research taxonomies); and open infrastructure (bibliographic recovery and the LIS Historical Commons).
Biography
Anita Coleman was named a 2007 Mover and Shaker by Library Journal for her pioneering work with dLIST (Digital Library for Information Science and Technology), the first open access repository for LIS, and was recognized by ALA and the Library of Congress for her 2005 Cataloging and Metadata Education prototype. Her Anti-racism Digital Library and International Anti-racism Thesaurus (2015) were web archived by the Library of Congress in 2020. Coleman is now developing adaptive infophilia for flourishing with AI, through public scholarship, peer-reviewed research, and tools for teaching, research, and practice.