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Susan Roman

Dean and Professor
AB, Washington University
MALS, Dominican University
PhD, University of Chicago
 
Office: Crown 300
708/524-6986
 


Bill Crowley

Professor
BA, Hunter College
MS (LS), Columbia University
MA, Ohio State University
PhD, Ohio University
 
Office: Crown 344
708/524-6513
 
Academic Area of Interest: Management, public libraries, readers advisory, organizational and multicultural communication, introduction to library and information science
 


Gertrude Soonja L. Koh

Professor
BA, Sogang University
MS, Catherine Spaulding College
MLS, CAS, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
Office: Crown 324
708/524-6867

Academic Area of Interest: Organization of knowledge, cataloging, classification and metadata
 


Taverekere (Kanti) Srikantaiah

Professor and Director, Center for Knowledge Management
BS, Mysore University
MS, Karnatak University
MLIS, MPA, PhD, University of
Southern California
 
Office: Crown 321
708/524-6944

Academic Area of Interest: Knowledge management and related applications and organization of knowledge
 


Steven L. Herb

Follett Chair
 
B.S., Pennyslvania State University
M.Ed., Pennsylvania State University
M.S.L.S., Clarion University of Pennsylbania
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
 
Office: Crown Library 312
708/24-6580
 
Academic Areas of Interest: Children's and young adult literature and services; storytelling; emergent literacy, child development, and early childhood education; information literacy; and intellectual freedom.
 
 


Karen Brown

Associate Professor
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, New York University
 
Office: Crown 341
708/524-6856

Academic Area of Interest: Academic libraries and collection management


Kate Marek

Associate Professor
BA, University of Texas at Austin
MALS, Dominican University
PhD, Emporia State University
 
Office: Crown 331
708/524-6648
kmarek@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Information policy, digital libraries and internet development and design
 


Janice Del Negro

Assistant Professor
BA, Hunter College
MLS, State University of New York at Geneseo
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Office: Crown 323
708/524-6871
jdelnegro@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Youth services in public libraries, including materials and literature for young adults and children, storytelling and programming


Christine Hagar

Assistant Professor
BA, University of Northumbria, UK
MA, University of Northumbria, UK
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Office: Crown 333
Phone: 708/524-6482
 
Academic Area of InterestCommunity informatics, crisis informatics, research methods, LIS curricula development in developing and emerging countries, and academic libraries.


Debra Mitts-Smith

Assistant Professor
BA, University of Illinois at Chicago
MA, University of Illinois at Chicago
MLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
Office: Crown Library 314
708/524-6604

Academic Area of Interest: Children’s and young adult literature, history of the printed book and reference


Michael Stephens

Assistant Professor
BA, Indiana University
MLS, Indiana University
PhD,  University of North Texas
 
Office: Crown Library 334
708/524-6603

Academic Area of Interest: Technology and libraries (social software, new technologies, librarians and library services)


Diane L. Velasquez

Assistant Professor
BA, San Jose State University
MBA, Golden Gate University
MA - IRLS, University of Arizona
PhD, University of Missouri, Columbia
 
Office: Crown Library 332
708/524-6594
 
Academic Areas of Interest:  Management, organizational change, government documents, public libraries, readers advisory, e-government, copyright and intellectual property, and information ethics

 



Donald C. Adcock

Lecturer and School Library Media Program Director
 
BS, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
MS, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
 
Office: Crown Library 311
708/524-6598
 
Academic Areas of Interest: School library media programs.
 


Marjorie E. Bloss

Lecturer
BA, University of Rochester
MLS, Case Western Reserve University

 
Office: Crown Library 342
708/524-6468

Academic Area of Interest: Library management and library technical services to include cataloging, classification, serials and integrated library systems


Mary Pat Fallon

Lecturer
BS, University of Wisconsin-Menomonie
MA, DePaul University
MLIS, Dominican University
 
Office: Crown 322
708/524-6602

Academic Area of Interest: Reference and academic libraries


Michael Leonard

Lecturer
BS, Bradley University
MLIS, Indiana University
 
Office: Crown 343
708/524-6861
mleonard@dom.edu

Academic Area of Interest: Young adult and children’s services such as programming and materials, storytelling and reference sources in the humanities


Edward J. Valauskas

Lecturer
BA, University of Illinois at Chicago
MA, University of Chicago
 
Office: Crown 313
708/524-6562

Academic Area of Interest: Internet publishing, rare books and scholarly communication


SENIOR FELLOW

William Vernon Jackson
BA, Northwestern University
MS (LS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AM and PhD, Harvard University
 
Office: Lewis annex 4C
708/524-6857

Academic Area of Interest: International librarianship

EMERITUS FACULTY

Tze-Chung (Richard) Li
Professor and Dean Emeritus
Editor Emeritus, World Libraries
LLB, Soochow University
MCL, Southern Methodist University
LLM, Harvard University
MS, Columbia University
PhD, New School for Social Research

William Brace
Professor Emeritus
BA, Brigham Young University
AM, University of Chicago
PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Theodore Spahn
Professor Emeritus
BS and MA, Northwestern University
MALS, Dominican University
PhD, University of Michigan


GSLIS ADJUNCT FACULTY