Emeriti Faculty

Professor Emeritus
PhD, Sociology, University of Chicago
Research focus
Digital inequality, community informatics, and African American intellectual history.
Professor Emeritus
Research focus
History of public libraries, corporate libraries, the library profession, the information society, and pre-computer information management.
Professor Emeritus
Research focus
Community informatics; environments to support inquiry-based learning; collaboration in knowledge making; new literacy practices.
Professor Emerita
Research focus
The role and significance of vernacular culture; ethnography of commercial culture; the politics of culture and cultural research.
Dean Emerita
Professor Emerita
Research focus
Interaction via computer media and how it supports and affects work, learning, and social interaction; how information is exchanged, knowledge is co-constructed, collaboration happens, and community forms in and in conjunction with online contexts.
Professor Emerita
Research focus
The heart of my work is stories, what they tell us and how they are told. Stories are central to library and information science, because stories literally store us, serving as storage for an infinite variety of formal and informal knowledge.
Associate Professor Emerita
PhD, Library and Information Studies, Wisconsin-Madison
Research focus
History of children's literature; history of youth services librarianship as women's history; historical and contemporary censorship and intellectual freedom; young adult literature; representations of minority-status groups in children's and young adult literature; reading engagement; reader-response research; reader-text interaction.
Professor Emeritus
Research focus
General and music bibliography; library history.
Associate Professor Emerita
PhD, Information Science, Indiana University
Research focus
Interrogating historical and contemporary naming practices and power dynamics in cultural heritage collections of films, comics and zines. Methods: Community-based participatory research and oral history.
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Library and Information Science, Illinois
Research focus
Data curation and digital research collections.
Associate Professor Emerita
Research focus
Community informatics; community inquiry.
Professor Emeritus
Research focus
Paul Otlet’s ideas in relation to the Internet, the World Wide Web, and information science; utopian schemes of knowledge organization including H.G. Wells’s idea of a world brain; the implications of digitization and networking for libraries and museums.
Professor Emeritus
PhD, Communication, Pennsylvania
Research focus
Telecommunications history; information policy; cultural production and the political economy of capitalism.
Professor Emerita
PhD, Information Transfer, Syracuse University
Research focus
Education for library and information science, with particular attention to online pedagogy; history of information science; impact of new technologies on reference and information services.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Research focus
International librarianship; library and information science education; collection development; management and assessment of library services; government information resources; economics of information; intellectual freedom issues; public librarianship.
Associate Professor Emerita
PhD, Information, University of Michigan
Research focus
Community informatics; technology use in local communities and by ordinary people; public libraries past, present, and future; social capital as a crucial resource in the information revolution.