Editorial Board

Editors

Denice Adkins

Denice Adkins is a Professor in the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri, and has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán in Honduras. Prior to her experience in academia, she worked as a public librarian in ethnically and linguistically diverse communities in Denver, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada. She has been a member of ALISE for over 20 years. 

John M. Budd

John M. Budd is Professor Emeritus with the University of Missouri. He was an active faculty member there for more than 20 years. He was also on the faculties at Louisiana State University and the University of Arizona. Prior to that he worked several years as an academic librarian. He has served as Editor of the Association of College and Research Libraries Publications in Librarianship Monograph series and as Editor of Library Resources and Technical Services. He has been a very active scholar with a publication record of nearly 150 books, book chapters, and journal articles. He has been a member of ALISE for more than 30 years.

Kawanna Bright, Book Review Editor

Dr. Kawanna Bright is Assistant Professor of Library Science at East Carolina University. Dr. Bright earned her PhD in Research Methods and Statistics from the University of Denver in 2018.  Prior to earning her doctorate, Dr. Bright worked as an academic librarian for 12 years, with a focus on reference, instructional services, and information literacy.  She earned her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in 2003.  Dr. Bright’s current research focuses on assessment in libraries, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in libraries, the application of research methodology to the study of LIS, and the importance of the liaison librarianship role in academic libraries. Her work with Dr. Amy VanScoy (University at Buffalo) to investigate the reference and information services experience of librarians of color received a 2014 ALA Diversity Research Grant and was awarded the 2017 Beta Phi Mu-Library Research Round Table Research Paper Award.  Dr. Bright is co-PI on an IMLS grant project utilizing survival analysis to determine when and why BIPOC librarians are likely to leave the profession. Dr. Bright is a 2021 recipient of an ECU College of Education Profiles in Diversity Award and the NCLA Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns’ LIS Instructor Roadbuilder Award.

Editorial Board

Term: April 2018 - December 2023

James Andrews

Dr. Jim Andrews is Associate Professor of Information Science at the School of Information, University of South Florida.   He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science from the University of Missouri – Columbia, where he also earned a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science. Dr. Andrews’ doctoral work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Library of Medicine (NLM) as a Predoctoral Medical Informatics Fellow in the University of Missouri’s School of Medicine. His research and teaching fall broadly within the areas of health informatics and information science, with interests in health-related information behaviors in the context of cancer, and clinical research informatics. He served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) as SIG Cabinet Director, is active in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the i-Schools group, Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), and other organizations including various university and state-level service activities. Dr. Andrews reviews for several journals in health-related fields and information science, and has served as a reviewer for various federal funding agency grant panels (e.g. NIH, NSF, and IMLS). 

Lai Ma

Lai Ma is Assistant Professor at School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, where she serves as Director of Research and previously Director of Master of Library and Information Studies programme. Lai received her Ph.D. in Information Science from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her research is in the area of scholarly communication, research evaluation and research policy, focusing on the interrelationship between epistemology, research infrastructure, and cultural and social affordances and their implications on information. 

Term: January 2020 - December 2022

Heidi Julien

Dr. Heidi Julien is a Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY). She is a former department chair and has taught at the University of Alberta and Dalhousie University in Canada, the University of Alabama, and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, with a focus on digital literacy and information behavior. She has been a visiting professor at Swinburne University, the University of Pretoria, Charles Sturt University, and Beijing Normal University, and she has been invited to give plenary talks around the world. She has served as editor and on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, and on the editorial boards of Library & Information Science Research, and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Library and Information Science, Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, and the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, as well as the editorial advisory boards of Information and Learning Sciences, and Open Information Science. Dr. Julien is a past-president of the Association for Library & Information Science Education, and a past-president of the Canadian Association of Information Science. She is also active in the Association for Information Science & Technology, where she served as chair of SIG USE. 

Rachel Ivy Clarke