[Asis-l] Welcome to New Simmons SLIS Faculty

[Alisa Libby]

*Dean Eileen Abels is pleased to announce two additions to the Simmons SLIS
faculty as of July 1, 2017.*

Rebecca Davis, Senior Lecturer

Rebecca Davis’s areas of research include undergraduate women in the STEM
fields and their use of academic library services and resources and
diversity in academic libraries. Before joining the faculty at Simmons
College, she worked as an Information Services Librarian in the Jennifer
Ann Wilson Dental Library at the University of Southern California. Rebecca
received a BA in political science from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, an MS in library science from the University of Kentucky and a
PhD in communication and information from the University of Tennessee.


Rachel Williams, Senior Lecturer

Rachel Williams earned her doctorate from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. Her teaching
areas are technology for information professionals, database design,
reference and user services, and research methods. Williams’ research areas
are rooted in issues of social justice, professionalization, and
librarianship. Most recently, her work looks at how public library workers
navigate issues of professionalization and work boundaries when providing
consumer health and social services information to people experiencing
homelessness. Before completing the doctoral program at UW-Madison, Dr.
Williams worked in public and corporate libraries in Washington State.

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Alisa M. Libby
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