[Asis-l] Welcome new Director of Simmons SLIS

[Alisa Libby]

 The Simmons School of Library and Information Science is pleased to
announce that Dr. Sanda Erdelez will be joining the School as Director and
Professor beginning in June of 2018.  Dr. Erdelez is a world-renowned
researcher in the area of information behavior and recipient of the 2015
“Outstanding Contribution to Information Behavior Research Award" from the
Special Interest Group on Information Seeking and Use (SIGUSE) of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).

Dr. Erdelez earned her PhD at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse
University while on a Fulbright scholarship. She served as an Assistant
Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and as an Associate and Full
Professor at the University of Missouri School of Information Science and
Learning Technologies (SISLT). While at the University of Missouri, Dr.
Erdelez served as the Chair of the SISLT Library and Information Science
Program and as the Associate Director for Education at the Missouri
Informatics Institute.

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Alisa M. Libby
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Simmons College, SLIS
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