Craig Gibson
Associate Director for Research and Education
The Ohio State University
Other positions held include those at Washington State University (1988-1996), Lewis-Clark State College (1986-88), and the University of Texas at Arlington (1985-86). He has taught as adjunct faculty in the library science program at The Catholic University of America, and has given numerous presentations and workshops on critical thinking and research skills, staff development, and the changing role of the liaison librarian; written articles on critical thinking, assessment, distance learning; and consulted on information literacy program development and assessment of information literacy.Craig Gibson is Associate Director for Research and Education at The Ohio State University Libraries. He is responsible for the teaching, research, outreach and engagement, and subject liaison programs and services in The Ohio State Libraries, and serves as liaison to the five regional OSU campus libraries. From 1996 through 2011, he was Associate University Librarian for Research, Instructional and Outreach Services in the Libraries at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where he was responsible for the following public services across four campus libraries: the Libraries’ Liaison Program, marketing and outreach, reference and instruction, government documents, maps, and GIS, interlibrary loan and document delivery, and access services. At George Mason, he collaborated with the University’s Center for Teaching Excellence on pedagogical workshops for faculty and on continuing education for Librarians, and with the Office of Institutional Assessment to benchmark assessments of technology skills, and contributed to the University’s QEP (Quality Enhancement Plan) initiative focused on transforming undergraduate education-an initiative entitled “Fostering a Culture of Student Scholarship.”
His professional activities include memberships in various ACRL Instruction Section committees, and serving as Member-at-Large for the Section, 1995-98. In 1999, he was selected as a member of the Instruction Section’s “Think Tank”, for which he co-authored a working paper on assessment of information literacy skills. In 2000, he worked with the ACRL Task Force on Information Literacy Competencies to write the final draft of the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, and in 2005 served as reviewer of discipline-specific applications of those Standards for two professional library associations. From 1997-2006, he was an ACRL representative on, and recorder for, the National Forum on Information Literacy. He was a member of the ACRL Baltimore Conference Planning Committee in 2006-07, and since 2008, has been the Chair of the ACRL Publications in Librarianship Editorial Board. He also edited the ACRL monograph, Student Engagement and Information Literacy (2006).
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction,
and Associate Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
She has master’s degrees in educational psychology and library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, and Associate Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Undergraduate Library is widely-known for its use of social networking and other innovative programs to reach out and connect with students. Lisa has worked to foster a culture of exploration and experimentation in “The Undergrad” as well as through her leadership of the Library’s User Education Committee. As Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction, Lisa oversees information literacy programs emanating from over 35 campus libraries serving more than 15,000 students/year. Lisa is internationally sought after as a conference speaker and is widely published in the field of information literacy.
Wendy Holliday
Coordinator of Library Instruction
Utah State University
She holds an MLS from the University of Illinois and a PhD in history from New York University.Wendy Holliday is Coordinator of Library Instruction at Utah State University, where she has worked since 2002. She is responsible for program planning and assessment for an active course-integrated library instruction program that reaches nearly 10,000 students each year. Her research focuses on student experiences of information literacy and learning, collaboration with faculty, and higher education reform. Her most recent work has been influenced by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), with the goal of applying rigorous analysis to classroom learning “problems” in order to improve practice. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was the Hopi Tribal Archivist and a historian. She has more than 20 years of experience teaching both history and information literacy at the college level.
Karen Nicholson
Manager, Information Literacy
University of Guelph
She received her M.L.I.S. in 2001 from McGill University, and holds an M.A., also from McGill. She completed Ph.D. coursework at the Université de Montréal and Josaï International University in Japan. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Concordia University in Montreal, and at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.Karen Nicholson is the Manager, Information Literacy, at the University of Guelph. She works to improve information literacy outcomes, programs and services by working collaboratively with librarians and campus partners. Prior to this position, Karen was at McMaster University where she led a number of strategic initiatives, including articulating the Library’s vision for 21st century information literacy programs and services and implementing a blended learning model for information literacy instruction. She played a lead role in the Library’s successful transition to a blended service model by creating, designing, implementing and evaluating an eight-month training program for library paraprofessionals. Karen has expertise in the areas of quality assurance in higher education and graduate attributes. She facilitated the implementation of Ontario’s new Quality Assurance Framework for publicly funded universities during an eleven-month secondment to the Council of Ontario Universities in 2010. She also worked as Embedded Teaching and Learning Librarian at the Centre for Leadership in Learning at McMaster in 2009, during which time she successfully launched communities of practice for McMaster instructors, and developed two undergraduate courses in digital media literacy. Prior to joining McMaster, Karen was Information Literacy Coordinator at McGill University in Montreal from 2002-2007.
Anne E. Zald
Head, Instruction Department
University Libraries
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Anne earned a B.A. in History from Oberlin College and an A.M.L.S. from the University of Michigan and woked as Reference/Documents Librarian at both Wayne State University and Oberlin College. Anne joined the Institute faculty in June 1999.Anne E. Zald is the Head, Instruction Department, University Libraries at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where efforts to embed information literacy learning across the curriculum are her primary responsibility. Previously Anne held several positions at the University of Washington Libraries including Documents Reference Librarian, UWired Librarian, Geography Librarian and Head of the Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services. While at the UW Anne served as a lecturer for the Information School, teaching courses for information problem solving courses for undergraduates and “Sources of Information in the Social Sciences” for the MLIS program. Anne was co-recipient of the 1995 ACRL Instruction Section Innovation in Instruction Award and contributed to ACRL IS Think Tank III, “Information Literacy and the Technological Transformation of Higher Education”. She recently co-authored a chapter in the 2008 edition of the Information Literacy Instruction Handbook.
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