University of Alberta's Julien Elected to ALISE Board of Directors

The Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) has elected Heidi Julien to its Board of Directors. Dr. Julien, University of Alberta Associate Professor in the School of Library & Information Studies, took office at the Associations 2005 annual conference in January in Boston, Massachusetts, and will serve a three-year term as the Director for External Relations.

(PRWEB) January 29, 2005 -- Dr. Juliens research in the areas of information behavior, information literacy, and information policy resulted in her recent selection as the 2005 Research Fellow at Albertas Centre for Research on Literacy, Faculty of Education. In addition, she has received two Standard Research Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Prior to joining the faculty at Alberta, Dr. Julien was on the faculty of Dalhousie University from 1998-2001. From 1996 to 1998, she gained international teaching experience as faculty at the School of Communications and Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington. In addition to her teaching experience, Dr. Julien has provided service to the field as the 2001-2002 President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI), and as program chair for the 2004 CAIS/ACSI conference.

Dr. Julien earned her Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario. Both her masters in Library and Information Science and her bachelors degree are from the University of Alberta.

ALISE, headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is the intellectual home of university faculty in graduate programs in library and information science in North America. Its mission is to promote excellence in research, teaching, and service and to provide an understanding of the values and ethos of library and information science. The Association supports the professional and intellectual growth of its members and advances research that contributes to and enlarges the knowledge base of the field. ALISE also provides mechanisms for exchanging and disseminating information about issues and trends in the field as these influence and inform library and information science and strengthen the Association's leadership role in library and information science education.

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