Overcoming Barriers to Information Access (B2A)

Educating the Next Generation of Library and Information Science Leaders

Overview

SOIS has received a grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to educate six doctoral students with research interests with research interests that address barriers to information access as they relate to one of the three areas of specialization within the doctoral program:

Information organization - e.g., cultural bias in knowledge organization systems
Information policy - e.g., information poverty and accessibility, digital divide issues
Information retrieval - e.g., human-computer interaction barriers, system design to accommodate different information seeking styl

Meet the B2A Fellows

Jennifer Thiele
Adriana McCleer
Renee Kapusniak
Jeannette Robinson
Tina Jayroe
Liza Barry-Kessler

B2A Fellow Activities

The SOIS B2A Fellows are active in their research and scholarship. Learn more about recent and upcoming conferences, lectures and events they are involved in.
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Activities

iConference 2013

Renee Bennett-Kapusniak and Jennifer Thiele at the iConference in Fort Worth, TX 02|2013

Renee Bennett-Kapusniak and Jennifer Thiele at the iConference in Fort Worth, TX 02/13

Jeannette Glover at the iConference in Fort Worth, TX 02|2013

Jeannette Glover at the iConference in Fort Worth, TX 02/13

Adriana McCleer at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in Santiago, Dominican Republic in February 2013.

JCLC 2012

JCLC 2012 Picture B2A Fellows Jeannette Glover, Renee Kapusniak, Adriana McCleer, and Jennifer Thiele, and PI Dietmar Wolfram were presenters on a panel discussing "Overcoming Barriers to Information Access" at the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color conference in Kansas City, MO on September 22nd (http://www.jclc-conference.org/program/sessions/overcoming-barriers-information-access).